Dark Sky Quotes

• Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  "Stray Birds". Book by Rabindranath Tagore, 1916.

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• I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Love, Dog, Flower

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• Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Flower, Dark, Sky

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• I looked up at the dark sky and prayed to God for a better break in life and a better chance to do something for the little people I loved.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dark, Sky, People

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.188, Penguin

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• She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.

  Neil Gaiman

  Stars, Sadness, Eye

  Neil Gaiman (2007). “Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie”, Vertigo

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• The range in brightness from the purple glow [of the sunset] to the dark sky above is too great for most films, and naturally it is beyond the range of printed pictures.

  James Elkins

  Sunset, Dark, Sky

  James Elkins (2007). “How to Use Your Eyes”, p.215, Routledge

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• Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Flower, Dark, Garden

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• How can one find the first moment of love? When, in what instant, does the night's dark sky become blue?

  Susan Abulhawa

  Love, Dark, Night

  Susan Abulhawa (2010). “Mornings in Jenin”, p.230, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• And I too, felt ready to start life all over again. It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe.

  Albert Camus

  Stars, Heart, Dark

  Albert Camus (2016). “The Stranger”, p.54, Hamilton Books

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• It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still. For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of my execution there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with howls of execration.

  Albert Camus

  Lonely, Stars, Philosophy

  L'Etranger (The Stranger) pt. 2, ch. 5 (1942)

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• Above me I saw something I did not believe at first. Well above the haze layer of the earth's atmosphere were additonal faint thin bands of blue, sharply etched against the dark sky. They hovered over the earth like a succession of halos.

  David G. Simons

  Believe, Dark, Sky

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• Lost in Static 18
  And the storm is closing in now
  Automatic 18 - Got to push through - Trapped in living hell
  You're a prisoner of the dark sky
  The propeller blades are still
  And the evil eye of the hurricane's
  Coming in now for the kill

  Mike Oldfield

  Song, Eye, Dark

  Song: Five Miles Out

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• I’m not sad, but the boys who are looking for sad girls always find me. I’m not a girl anymore and I’m not sad anymore. You want me to be a tragic backdrop so that you can appear to be illuminated, so that people can say ‘Wow, isn't he so terribly brave to love a girl who is so obviously sad?’ You think I’ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? I’ll swallow you whole.

  Warsan Shire

  Girl, Stars, Dark

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• God was something I did not understand the way kids who went to church did. They said God was a man in the sky with white hair and a beard like Santa. This seemed strange to me. When I thought of God, I imagined only mist over the pond, a sliver of moon in a dark sky, scatterings of stars, birdsong.

  Melissa Coleman

  Stars, Kids, Dark

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• Beckendorf closed eyes tight and brought his hand up to his watch. from that distance, the explosion shook the world. Heat seared the back of my head. The Princess Andromeda blew up from both sides, a massive fireball of green flame roiling into the dark sky, consuming everything....I stared out the window into deep blue water. Beckendorf was supposed to go to college in the fall. He had a girlfriend, lots of friends, his whole life ahead of him. He couldn't be gone.

  Rick Riordan

  Girlfriend, Distance, Princess

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• Nate stared, slack-jawed as the cab merged with the traffic and became impossible to spot. That was it. They chose each other. Just then, the dark sky lit up with fireworks. A cab sailing the street honked in celebration . In the night air , Nate thought he could hear Serena and Blairs' laughter, though he knew that was impossible; they were too far away by now. But as we know, in this city anything is possible

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Laughter, Dark, Night

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