George MacDonald Quotes

The birds of night peck at the first stars that flash like my soul when I love you.

Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn.

For the night Shows stars and women in a better light.

Then stars arise, and the night is holy.

The night sky in Egypt is a swirling mass of stars so bright and numerous the sky seems to tremble with the ice-blue weight of them.

There's no night without stars.

Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars?

How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die.

Each night, Liesel would step outside, wipe the door, and watch the sky. Usually it was like spillage - cold and heavy, slippery and gray - but once in a while some stars had the nerve to rise and float, if only for a few minutes. On those nights, she would stay a little longer and wait. Hello, stars.

I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.

And at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million little bells.

All through the night, men looked at the sky and were saddened by the stars.

the stars seemed near enough to touch and never before have i seen so many. i always believed the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, but i was sure of it that night.

Though one were fair as roses His beauty clouds and closes.

Whenever I do get to look out, it is glorious. Even the stars have a special brightness.

When someone mentions the gracefulness of the night sky, climb up on the roof and dance and say, like this?

Amid the moon and the stars, amid the clouds of the night, amid the hills which bordered on the sky with their magnificent silhouette of pointed cedars, amid the speckled patches of the moon, amid the temple buildings that emerged sparkling white out of the surrounding darkness - amid all this, I was intoxicated by the pellucid beauty of Uiko's treachery.

Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art-- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite.

Tasteful illumination of the night, Bright scattered, twinkling star of spangled earth.

The most universally awesome experience that mankind knows is to stand alone on a clear night and look at the stars. It was God who first set the stars in space; He is their Maker and Master . . . such are His power and His majesty.

The Brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven would through the airy region stream so bright that birds would sing, and think it were not night.