Orbits Quotes

“I live my life in growing orbits which move out over this wondrous world, I am circling around God, around ancient towers and i have been circling for a thousand years. And I still dont know if I am an eagle or a storm or a great song.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

“So long, I replied, may we all have one good flight before we rest among flowers and the orbits of hungry worms.”
― Rawi Hage, Carnival

“The planets are bodies in the solar system and so are we. You and I in elliptical orbs circling life. It is life we want, but we daren't come too close for fear it might burn us away, this life in its intensity.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The World and Other Places: Stories