Saturn Quotes

• Saturn doesn’t ask us to give up our dreams, only to make them real.

  Steven Forrest

  Dream, Giving Up, Real

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• Far away, to an infinite world I escape. I'm clear and calm, I'm unafraid. Sunless days, in my sheltered milkyway. In Saturn's rings I feel no pain.

  Paula Cole

  Pain, World, Calm

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• Our solar system is fantastically bizarre. There are worlds with features we never imagined. Storms larger than planets, moons with under-surface oceans, lakes of methane, worldlets that swap places...and that's just at Saturn.

  Phil Plait

  Ocean, Moon, Lakes

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• The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

  Mark Russell

  Inspirational, Hilarious, Funny Life

  "Frequent Flyer Humor and One-Upmanship". Book by George W. Stewart, Dog Ear Publishing, p. 12, 2011.

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• Saturn is the most photogenic planet in the solar system.

  Carolyn Porco

  Planets, Solar System, Photogenic

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• Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.

  Georg Buchner

  Children, Revolution

  Danton's Death act 1, sc. 5 (1835) See Vergniaud 1

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• Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from the fiery noon and eve's one star, Sat gray-haired Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair.

  John Keats

  Stars, Sadness, Silence

  1820 Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and Other Poems, 'Hyperion', bk.1, l.1-5.

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• I was, I remember, I still remember when the first time I pointed the telescope at the sky and I saw Saturn with the rings. It was a beautiful image.

  Umberto Guidoni

  Beautiful, Sky, Telescopes

  "Preflight Interview: Umberto Guidoni". Interview with Kim Dismukes, spaceflight.nasa.gov. April 7, 2002.

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• Don't need cars cause we've learned to fly on Saturn.

  Stevie Wonder

  Car, Needs, Causes

  Song: Saturn, Album: Songs in the Key of Life, 1976

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• Visiting Saturn sounds like a lot of fun but you will die!

  Craig Benzine

  Fun, Sound, Visiting

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• We must believe then, that as from hence we see Saturn and Jupiter; if we were in either of the Two, we should discover a great many Worlds which we perceive not; and that the Universe extends so in infinitum.

  Cyrano de Bergerac

  Believe, Two, Jupiter

  Cyrano de Bergerac (2015). “A Voyage to the Moon: Souls Needed for You”, p.18, 谷月社

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• I came into the world under the sign of Saturn -- the star of the slowest revolution, the planet of detours and delays.

  Walter Benjamin

  Stars, Delay, World

  Walter Benjamin (2009). “One-Way Street and Other Writings”, p.8, Penguin UK

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• We are surrounded by a lot of failed ecosystems; the moon being one, Mars, Venus. There’s evidence of water on Mars and rivers and it didn’t take. Also, we have planets to guard us like Jupiter and Saturn that take the hits of the comets. It is miraculous that we exist on this planet, that it took.

  Robin Williams

  Moon, Ecosystems, Rivers

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• She's a yellow pair of running shoes, a holey pair of jeans. She looks great in cheap sunglasses, she looks great in anything. She's, "I want a piece of chocolate cake; take me to a movie." She's a, "I can't find a thing to wear." Now and then she's moody. She's a Saturn with a sunroof with her brown hair blowing. She's a warm conversation I wouldn't miss for nothing. She's a fighter when she's mad and she's a lover when she's lovin'.

  Brad Paisley

  Running, Hair, Jeans

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• Saturn Return is just the return of your planets to their original position.

  Billy Corgan

  Return, Planets, Position

  Interview with Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2005.

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• The cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest veins. The moon is a great nerve center from which we quiver forever. Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Running, Heart, Moon

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8485, Delphi Classics

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• The tragic element in poetry is like Saturn in alchemy, — the Malevolent, the Destroyer of Nature ; but without it no true Aurum Potabile, or Elixir of Life, can be made.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Poetry, Elements, Made

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1866). “Kavanagh. Driftwood”, p.365

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• We need another universe, a smaller one; with more Earth's and less Saturn's; more alive and less dead!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Needs, Alive, Earth

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• Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Astrology, Venus, Knows

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8473, Delphi Classics

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• Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe. But from that same point, take mankind in mass, and for the most part, they seem a mob of unnecessary duplicates, both contemporary and hereditary.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Moon, Woe

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale”, p.373, Cosimo, Inc.

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• All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.

  Richard de Bury

  Book, Reading, Would Be

  Richard de Bury (1889). “Philobiblon”

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• This world has many rings, like Saturn, and we live now on the outmost of them all. None can say deliberately that he inhabits thesame sphere, or is contemporary, with the flower which his hands have plucked, and though his feet may seem to crush it, inconceivable spaces and ages separate them, and perchance there is no danger that he will hurt it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Crush, Nature, Hurt

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.306, Courier Corporation

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• I have been battering away at Saturn, returning to the charge every now and then. I have effected several breaches in the solid ring, and now I am splash into the fluid one, amid a clash of symbols truly astounding. When I reappear it will be in the dusky ring, which is something like the state of the air supposing the siege of Sebastopol conducted from a forest of guns 100 miles one way, and 30,000 miles the other, and the shot never to stop, but go spinning away round a circle, radius 170,000 miles.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Gun, Circles, Air

  James Clerk Maxwell (1990). “The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: 1846-1862”, p.538, CUP Archive

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• The planets are not hunks of stuff out there but nodes of vibration that resonate in multiple dimensions that enfold themselves into one another in patterns of complex recursiveness in which Sun, Moon, and Saturn are also modalities of Earth.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Moon, Unity, Earth

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• You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.

  John Buchan

  Life, Wall, Thinking

  1916 The Power-House, ch.3,'Tells of a Midsummer Night'.

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