On a clear night, far from city lights, the sky opens up and suddenly the world feels both enormous and close.
Stars have guided sailors home, marked the seasons, and filled poems, songs and stories for thousands of years.
They remind us to dream bigger, to keep going through dark nights, and to look up when life pulls our eyes down.
This collection brings together 66 Stars Quotes on wonder, dreams, hope, love and short captions, so you can find the line that speaks to your night.
14 Famous Stars Quotes on Wonder & the Night Sky
Hitch your wagon to a star.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are more stars in the heavens than all the grains of sand covering the world’s beaches.
Carl Sagan
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
William Shakespeare
Astronomy compels the soul to look upward, and leads us from this world to another.
Plato
All we ever see of stars are their old photographs.
Alan Moore
The stars are the landmarks of the universe.
Sir John Herschel
We are made of star stuff.
Carl Sagan
Not only do we live among the stars, the stars live within us.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
There’s as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
Marcus Aurelius
May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Gaze up at the stars knowing that I see the same sky and wish the same sweet dreams.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The stars are the street lights of eternity.
Henry Ward Beecher
A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.
Unknown
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13 Stars Quotes on Dreams & Reaching High
Look up at the stars and not down at your feet.
Stephen Hawking
Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
Neil Armstrong
Second to the right, and straight on till morning.
J.M. Barrie
Reach for the stars.
Unknown
Among the stars is where dreams begin.
Unknown
The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.
Rabindranath Tagore
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche
My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.
John Green
Wish upon a star.
Unknown
Look at the stars. See their beauty. And in that beauty, see yourself.
Draya Mooney
Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.
Aberjhani
Keep shining.
Unknown
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13 Stars Quotes on Hope & Light in the Dark
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
Sarah Williams
Stars can’t shine without darkness.
Unknown
Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.
Rumi
We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.
Marilyn Monroe
Twinkle like a star.
Unknown
Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.
Stephen Hawking
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
Theodore Roosevelt
The darkest nights produce the brightest stars.
Unknown
Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
Victor Hugo
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.
Carl Sagan
The night is darkest just before the dawn.
Thomas Fuller
May your dreams be as bright as the stars.
Unknown
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13 Stars Quotes on Love & the Stars
For my part, I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
Vincent van Gogh
Fly me to the moon. Let me play among the stars.
Bart Howard
Look at the stars, look how they shine for you.
Coldplay
Doubt thou the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move.
William Shakespeare
You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
e.e. cummings
You are the star that lights my darkest nights.
Unknown
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.
Norman Vincent Peale
Under the same stars, we are never truly apart.
Unknown
The stars aligned the day I met you.
Unknown
When I look at the stars, I think of you.
Unknown
Somewhere, someone is looking at the same stars and thinking of you.
Unknown
My love for you is written in the stars.
Unknown
I would rather be with you under the stars than alone in a castle of gold.
Unknown
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13 Short Stars Quotes & Short Captions
Only in the darkness can you see the stars.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Shine bright.
Unknown
Born to shine.
Unknown
Starry nights, bright lights.
Unknown
Chasing stars.
Unknown
Written in the stars.
Unknown
Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight.
Unknown
Dancing under the stars.
Unknown
Lost in the stars.
Unknown
Starry-eyed.
Unknown
Counting stars.
Unknown
To the stars and back.
Unknown
Look up, the stars are out.
Unknown
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Pick the line that feels like yours, share it with someone who needs it, and the next time the sky is clear, step outside and look up.
