There are few things in the world that inspire awe like the night sky. It’s truly magical to see millions of stars above you and seeing the giant expanse of the universe helps puts everything into perspective.
Whether you’re looking to describe the feeling you get when you look up at the sky, or something metaphorical, we have put together 40 night sky quotes that are perfect for you.
Night Sky Quotes
“When life gets too overwhelming, just look up at the night sky and lose yourself for a while.”
- Deborah a Ten Brink
“How brave the moon shines in her skin; outnumbered by the stars.”
- Angie Weiland-Crosby
“Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.”
- J.R.R Tolkein
"No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky."
- Llewelyn Powys
"Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God."
- Sai Baba
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
- Oscar Wilde
"The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Stars are beautiful, but they must not take an active part in anything, they must just look on forever."
- J.M Barrie
“To me you are stardust sprinkled across a night sky, forever in my dreams, but out of my reach.”
- Teresa Medeiros
“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me want to dream.”
- Vincent Van Gogh
“When you miss me, just look up to the night sky and remember, I’m like a star: sometimes you can’t see me, but I’m always there.”
- Jayde Nicole
“Sometimes in my tent, late at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping against the sky.”
- Rick Yancey
“Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”
- Theodore Roosevelt
“I watched the night sky with it’s countless stars and its moon, and I wondered about the universe and all that had been created, why the stars and the moon rose at night and the sun in the day, how vast it must be, how I could never understand the infinite measure of its size.”
- Patrick Carman
“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet.”
- Stephen Hawking
“By the darkness, stars are revealed.”
- Evette Carter
“The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night.”
- Haruki Murakami
“When I was little, I used to think that the sky at night was a big, black blanket that separated heaven from earth, and the stars were a whole bunch of little pin holes that the angels poked in the blanket so they could look down on us.”
- Robin Jones Gunn
"If people looked at the stars each night, they'd live a lot differently."
- Bill Watterson
“You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them ... In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing”
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Life is fleeting. And if you're ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky when the stars are strung across the velvety night. And when a shooting star streaks through the blackness, turning night into day ... make a wish and think of me”
- Robin Williams
“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”
- Martin Luther King Jr
"Before we invented civilisation our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky."
- Carl Sagan
“All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide like the moon cannot stop oceanic tide; but a hidden star can still be smiling at night’s black spell on darkness, beguiling”
- Munia Khan
“I throw wishes into the night and wait for the stars to catch them.”
- Christy Ann Martine
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were."
- Carl Sagan
“There was always something new to be seen in the unchanging night sky.”
- Fritz Leiber
“Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity - distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless”
- Douglas Adams
“Metaphor for the night sky: a trillion asterisks and no explanations.”
- Robert Breault
“We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.”
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Without the dark, we’d never see the stars. There also would be no use for the moon if there was never a night.”
- Tessa Emily Hall
“That's how you came here, like a star without a name. Move across the night sky with those anonymous lights.”
- Rumi
"It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe."
- Victor Hugo
“Surely the stars are images of love”
- Philip James Bailey
“The stars have their own language, you know. If you’re careful, you can learn it.”
- Sarah Jio
“I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars.”
- Og Mandino
“The night sky is a miracle of infinitude.”
- Terri Guillemets
“Look at the stars. See their beauty. And in that beauty, see yourself.”
- Draya Mooney
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