“ He was there alone with himself, collected, tranquil, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the serenity of the skies, moved in the darkness by the visible splendors of the constellations,… Victor Hugo
“ That black, maddening firmament; that vast cosmic ocean, endlessly deep in every direction, both Heaven and Pandemonium at once; mystical Zodiac, speckled flesh of Tiamat; all that is chaos, infinite… Mark X.
“ The moon is your reminder that God is never-changing, and you can always depend on Him to hear your prayers. Tessa Emily Hall
“ I witness the birth of the moon and her servants walking the night sky pulling us into their wake A.P. Sweet
“ Black met black on the distant horizon, the stars alone distinguishing sky from lake. On the sand below, Silver Beach glittered at the water's edge while on the north side of the river the lighthouse'… Erin Farwell
“ The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night. Haruki Murakami
“ The trouble with space is, there's so much of it.An ocean of blackness without any shore.A neverending nothing.And here, all alone in the million billion miles of midnight, is one solitary moving spec… Philip Reeve
“ When I lie back and close my eyes, this farthest lip of beach right next to the end of the ocean feels like being up close to an enormous breathing being, the bass drum surf thump reverberating throug… Paul Bogard
“ With my naked eye, on nights the moon climbs slowly, sometimes so dusted with rust and rose, brown, and gold tones that it nearly drips earth colors and seems intimately braided with Earth, it feels c… Paul Bogard
“ How strange it was, I thought, that when the tiny though thousandfold beauties of the Earth disappeared and the immeasurable beauty of outer space rose in the distant quiet splendor of light, man and… Adalbert Stifter
“ What are you thinking of discovering?"Moomintroll cleared his throat and felt very proud. "Oh, everything," he said. "Stars, for example!"Snufkin was deeply impressed."Stars!" he exclaimed. "Then I mu… Tove Jansson
“ At night i loved her at night i waited under the tarp at night i watched her looking up at the stars dreaming of a better time to watch me A.P. Sweet
“ I know that I am mortal by nature, and ephemeral; but when I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the heavenly bodies I no longer touch the earth with my feet: I stand in the presence of Ze… Ptolemy
“ Sometimes while gazing at the night's sky, I imagine stars looking down making wishes on the brightest of us. Richelle E. Goodrich
“ There were nights for instance, especially in August, where the view of the full moon from the top of the Acropolis hill or from a high terrace could steal your breath away. The moon would slide over… Effrosyni Moschoudi
“ I will forever be collidingwith a billion unnamedundiscovered stars, each of uson our own orbital paths. Sanober Khan
“ I do not want to sleepfor fear I might miss the twinkle of the brightest starfor fear I may never knowhow the moon glimmers, in the darkest hour. Sanober Khan
