A collection of beautiful stars quotes to help you marvel at the beauty of stars, starry nights, and life.
When was the last time you allowed yourself to slow down, admire the beauty of stars, and just breathe?
These inspiring quotes about stars below will take you on a remarkable journey that’ll remind you to hit pause in life, sit down and look at stars to help you fall in love with life again.
Stars Quotes About Life and Love
Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
— E.E. Cummings
When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.
— Akhenaton
Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.
— Casey Kasem
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If there were no night, we would not appreciate the day, nor could we see the stars and the vastness of the heavens. We must partake of the bitter with the sweet. There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, they purify, and thus they bless.
— James E. Faust
I like the night. Without the dark, we’d never see the stars.
— Stephenie Meyer
Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.
— Gilbert Parker
Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
— E.E. Cummings
But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.
— Madeline Miller
Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
— Omar N. Bradley
there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars
— John Green
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
— William Shakespeare
The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
— Carl Sagan
I’m a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.
— Mike Tyson
I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think we are dying; we’re actually turning into a supernova. And then when we look at ourselves again, we see that we’re suddenly more beautiful than we ever were before!
— C. JoyBell C.
A star falls from the sky and into your hands. Then it seeps through your veins and swims inside your blood and becomes every part of you. And then you have to put it back into the sky. And it’s the most painful thing you’ll ever have to do and that you’ve ever done. But what’s yours is yours. Whether it’s up in the sky or here in your hands. And one day, it’ll fall from the sky and hit you in the head real hard and that time, you won’t have to put it back in the sky again.
— C. JoyBell C.
O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
— Christopher Marlowe
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
— Marcus Aurelius
Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.
— Stephen Hawking
Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
— Sarah Williams
You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.
— Gary Allan
I like to consider myself a star – a star, that when you look in the sky, it’s always there. And on a clear night… a shooting star comes by, and get a little thrill, and you make a little wish. You need both types of stars, the shooting and the constant stars. The heavens include them all.
— James Belushi
Beautiful Stars Quotes
There are too many stars in some places and not enough in others.
— Mark Twain
The stars are the land-marks of the universe.
— Sir John Frederick William Herschel
Surely the stars are images of love.
— Philip James Bailey
For my part I know nothing with any certainty but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
— Vincent Van Gogh
The stars are the apexes of what triangles!
— Henry David Thoreau
Beyond the stars there are fields of wildflowers where Gods eternal presence inspires the hungry spirit as it nourishes the soul.
— Micheal Teal
He counts the number of the stars; He gives names to all of them. Great is our Lord and abundant in strength; His understanding is infinite.
— Psalms 147:4-5
It is reasonable to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.
— Arthur Eddington
A sky full of stars and he was staring at her.
— Atticus
God’s promises are like the stars; the darker the night the brighter they shine.
— David Nicholas
Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.
— Jack Kerouac
If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.
— Bill Watterson
Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
— Bette Davis
The stars are the street lights of eternity.
— Unknown
All we ever see of stars are their old photographs.
— Alan Moore
Look at the stars! Look, look up at the skies! Oh look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!
— Gerard Manley Hopkins
There wouldn’t be a sky full of stars if we were all meant to wish on the same one.
— Frances Clark
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
— Lucretius
When I consider how, after sunset, the stars come out gradually in troops from behind the hills and woods, I confess that I could not have contrived a more curious and inspiring sight.
— Henry Thoreau
What makes night within us may leave stars.
— Victor Hugo
It shows you exactly how a star is formed; nothing else can be so pretty! A cluster of vapor, the cream of the milky way, a sort of celestial cheese, churned into light.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Non est ad astra mollis e terris via” – “there is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
— Seneca
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Inspiring Stars Quotes and Sayings
Never judge the moon by gazing the stars.
— Lalitha Narayanan
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
— Martin Luther
A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Do not complain beneath the stars about the lack of bright spots in your life.
— Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
I love the stars.
Because they can’t say anything.
I love the stars.
Because they do not judge anyone.
— Natsuki Takaya
Happiness is always there. You just have to choose to see it. There’s no point dwelling in the dark and ignoring the light of the stars.
— Carrie Hope Fletcher
The Sun, the stars and the seasons as they pass, some can gaze upon these with no strain of fear.
— Horace
We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.
— Marilyn Monroe
Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.
— Aberjhani
Those freckles make you seem like a galaxy of stars, just waiting to be explored and loved.
— Nikita Gill
She stared at the stars like they were pillow for her mind and in their light she could rest her heavy head.
— Christopher Poindexter
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
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
— Immanuel Kant
Look at the stars. See their beauty.
And in that beauty, see yourself.
— Draya Mooney
The stars don’t look bigger, but they do look brighter.
— Sally Ride
And he will make the face of heaven so fine. That all the world will be in love with night. And pay no worship to the garish sun.
— William Shakespeare
There’s something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are. The stars look like they’re so close, you could reach out and touch them. But you can’t. Sometimes things look a lot closer than they are.
— Kami Garcia
Not just beautiful, though – the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing.
And they’re watching me.
— Haruki Murakami
I believe the stars align so souls can find one another. Whether they are meant to be souls in love or souls in life remains to be seen.
— Renee Ahdieh
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
— Saint Augustine
When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe.
— Vera Nazarian
Some people are born with tornadoes in their lives, but constellations in their eyes. Other people are born with stars at their feet, but their souls are lost at sea.
— Nikita Gill
Remember to reach for the stars, and they won’t be able to resist flying into your hands!
— Katherine McNamara
Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at the stars because we are human?
— Neil Gaiman
More Stars quotes and quotes about Stars
When you come upon a path
that brings benefit
and happiness to all,
follow this course
as the moon
journeys through the stars.
— Gautama Buddha
The stars which at midnight looked like a spillway of broken pearls, did not shine at this hour; they were holes of light, like eye squints in black masks.
— Paul Theroux
The sun is but a morning star.
— Henry David Thoreau
Stars are the daisies that begem
The blue fields of the sky.
— David Macbeth Moir
The sky was clear – remarkably clear – and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.
— Thomas Hardy
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
— Rabindranath Tagore
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
— Helen Keller
What makes night within us may leave stars.
— Victor Hugo
Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
i have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
— Sarah Williams
Love is the mystery of water and a star.
— Pablo Neruda
Stars that shine bling in the moon night, might I find true love sqirreled away tonight?
— Isabel Yosito
Virtue is like a polar star, which keeps its place, and all stars turn towards it.
— Confucius
There are so many stars shining in the sky, so many beautiful things winking at you, but when Venus comes out, all the others are waned, they are pushed to the background.
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.
— Henry Van Dyke
Look at the stars. It won’t fix the economy. It won’t stop wars. It won’t give you flat abs, or even help you figure out your relationship. But it’s important. It helps you to remember that you and your problems are both infinitesimally small and conversely, that you are a piece of an amazing and vast universe.
— Kate Bartolotta
The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?
— Oscar Wilde
Look ’round at the courses of the stars, as if thou were going along with them; and constantly consider the changes of the elements into one another; for such thoughts purge away the filth of the terrene life.
— Marcus Aurelius
From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?
— Friedrich Nietzsche
What are we but shooting stars, hoping to shine long enough to make at least one soul believe in the magic.
— Sherry Namdeo
It’s the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world.
— Tahereh Mafi
The stars up there at night are closer than you think.
— Doug Dillon
Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand – and melting like a snowflake.
— Francis Bacon
Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. 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
Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.