Stargazing Quotes

“And he will never know what it is to look up at the night sky and wish.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“i will forever be colliding
with a billion unnamed
undiscovered stars, each of us
on our own orbital paths.”
― Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence

“When people stargazing, they stare at stars,
and many other things which they've already
presumed commonly and universally as stars.”
― Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident], Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

“Every time I gaze at stars above, I feel small, big, infinite and connected all at the same time, and tonight on the Amazon is no different.”
― Michael Sanders, Ayahuasca: An Executive's Enlightenment

“An astoundingly perfect black void sat where the sun had been, surrounded by a jagged white nimbus of light that nearly brought me to tears. This was the solar corona, the hot outer edges of the sun's atmosphere that drive a flood of particles into space and generate a phenomenon known as a stellar wind, a key property of how our sun and other stars evolve. I had studied this particular aspect of stars for almost my entire life, using a dozen of the best telescopes in the world, but this was the first time I could see a star's wind with my own naked-eye. Around us, the sky was a strangely uniform dome of sunsets in every direction, and the warmth of sunlight had been replaced by an almost primal up-the-neck chill. It felt like the planet itself had been put on pause at this particular place and moment in time, a frozen moment of "look.”
― Emily M. Levesque, The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers

“We go about thinking we have nobody, when in fact; we have the sun, the moon and the stars to look up to.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“I suddenly remember being about seven, riding beside him in the car, and asking him how grown-ups found their way to places. After all, I had never seen him pull out a map.

"I guess we just get used to taking the same turns," he said, but I wasn't satisfied.

"Then what about the first time you go somewhere?"

"Well," he said, "we get directions."

But what I want to know is who got them the very first time? What if no one's ever been where you're going? "Dad?" I ask, "is it true that you can use stars like a map?"

"Yeah, if you understand celestial navigation."

"Is it hard?" I'm thinking maybe I should learn. A backup plan, for all those times I feel like I'm just wandering in circles.

"It's pretty jazzy math—you have to measure the altitude of a star, figure out its position using a nautical almanac, figure out what you think the altitude should be and what direction the star should be in based on where you think you are, and compare the altitude you measured with the one you calculated. Then you plot this on a chart, as a line of position. You get several lines of position to cross, and that's where you go." My father takes one look at my face and smiles. "Exactly," he laughs. "Never leave home without your GPS.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“There is nothing worse, after days of falling asleep by a babbling brook and waking up to a choir chirping birds, than to go inside a house with insulated walls and an obstructive roof. This torturous invention, a cage, a box, prevents you from seeing or hearing anything of natural importance. Make time to free yourself and find a bit of nature.”
― Katherine Keith

“Sleeping in the simple small cottage rather than hotels... and under the billion stars is one of the breathtaking experience... pause, breath, nothingness moment is what gives meaning to my busy existence, that life is felt in silence, in that moment when what you see before you can no longer be conveyed with words...”
― El Fuego

“Why do we study the universe? Why do we look at the sky and ask questions, build telescopes, travel to the very limits of our planet to answer them? Why do we stargaze?

We don't know exactly why, but we must.”
― Emily M. Levesque, The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers

“Most nights you'll find me swinging in the hammock of the moon, sipping the night black, a few stars as sugar cubes.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“Let's find a place where we can see all the stars.”
― My pajamas, I kid you not.

“The best of summer star-gazing is that it is warm enough to fling yourself upon your back and gaze up at the starts without craning the neck. In a short time the sense of intimacy with the stars is established, as it never can be when a man stands erect. You may even lose the sense of gazing up, and enjoy the exciting sensation of gazing *down* into the deep wells of space. Indeed, this is quite as correct as to say that we gaze upward at the stars. In reality there is no up or down in the universe. You are, in point of fact, a creature perpetually hung over the yawning abyss of Everywhere, suspended over it by our tiny terrestrial gravity which clamps you to the side of mother earth while you gaze down on Vega and Deneb and Arcturus and Altair whirling below you.”
― Donald Culross Peattie, An Almanac for Moderns

“The air is so dry, so clear, and there's so few people, almost no lights. And you can lie on your back and look up and see the Milky Way. All the stars like a splash of milk in the sky. And you see them slowly move. Because the Earth is moving. And you feel like you're lying on a giant spinning ball in space.”
― Mohsin Hamid, Exit West

“Dinner on Kitt Peak wrapped up in time for everyone to head outside and watch the sunset together before scattering to the telescope, a time-honored tradition of astronomers everywhere. If asked, we would all supply some good practical scientific reasoning behind the habit - you get a glimpse of what sort of night it's going to be, a sense of upcoming weather, the sky quality, and so on - but the basic reason remains that it's simply beautiful. Standing on a remote mountain with the earth stretching out into the distance and slowly spinning away from our nearest star, it's a wonderful quiet moment to enjoy the vastness and stillness and colors as the night begins. On any given evening, I can promise you that scattered across the planet are a few small groups of astronomers, standing on dome catwalks or dining hall patios or even just a stretch of hard-packed earth and pausing in their work for a few moments to admire the simple beauty of the sky.”
― Emily M. Levesque, The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers

“À force de regarder les étoiles, tu t'es mise à aimer l'univers.”
― Michel Jeury, Les gens heureux ont une histoire

“To see the heavens, you must climb to the heavens."

- Erudian proverb”
― J.V. Hilliard, The Last Keeper

“Tonight I will gaze again,
at the stars and the clouds,
and fall asleep below the acacia tree,
conceiving dreams of the moon.”
― Avijeet Das

“With one glove off, you trace the heavens, / fingers full of reverence...

(from Stargazers on a Winter's Night)”
― Robert J. Tiess, The Humbling and Other Poems

“The stars are a reminder that even in our darkest moments, there is always something bigger and more beautiful to strive for.”
― Ajaz Ahmad Khawaja

“Stargazing is not just about looking up at the stars, it's about looking within ourselves and finding our connection to the larger universe.”
― Ajaz Ahmad Khawaja

“The universe is a never-ending exploration, and stargazing is the first step in discovering its secrets and mysteries.”
― Ajaz Ahmad Khawaja

“In the silence of the night, the stars speak to us, reminding us of the infinite possibilities of the universe.”
― Ajaz Ahmad Khawaja

“The stars are a reminder that we are all part of something bigger, a cosmic tapestry weaving together the threads of the universe.”
― Ajaz Ahmad Khawaja

“She missed the simplicity of Dunia’s clearest, darkest skies, pristine and unencumbered from light pollution. The vast canvas of distant galaxies, nebulas, meteorites and shooting stars had always left her in awe. She often went stargazing on the beach outside her father’s official residence, lying on her back looking up at the heavens as she lost herself in their rich, ancient, mysterious beauty.”
― Sky Gold

“I wish I could sleep with my eyes open and gaze at the stars all night.”
― Ajaz Ahmad Khawaja

“There is more than enough hope in the night sky than you can find in your troubles.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“As you watch a shooting star streak across the sky, make a wish, and remember: you, too, are made of a kind of holy, stardust-like matter, forever connected to everything that ever was and will be.”
― Keli Maire, Finding Peace in Nature: A Practical Guide: How to Unlock the Healing Power of the Great Outdoors

“We watched the stars. They were so much bigger than we could ever hope to be. Someone told me once that the light we see from them is hundreds of thousands of years old. That the star could already be dead and we’d never know it because it still looked alive. I thought that was a terrible thing. That the stars could lie.”
― T.J. Klune

“We watched the stars. They were so much bigger than we could ever hope to be.
Someone told me once that the light we see from them is hundreds of thousands of years old. That the star could already be dead and we’d never know it because it still looked alive. I thought that was a terrible thing. That the stars could lie.”
― T.J. Klune, Wolfsong