Regina Spektor Quotes

I said it's a cold universe and I don't mean that metaphorically. If you go out into space, it's cold. It's really cold and we don't know what's up there. We happen to be in this little pocket where there's a sun. What have we got except love and each other to guard against all that isolation and loneliness?

We're just one rock surrounded by this immense universe.

We see parts of each other, and we put them together. But if I want to see you in totality, you need to move away; we need space between us. Across the street, I can see all of you at once, but then I also see this huge vista of space surrounding you, coming in and compressing you.

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.

Your nearness is the nearness of planets. I am the void between you. If I withdraw there will be no void for you to swim in.

Looking at the sky last night and the moon in the first fresh dark, just a few stars, bright with their cold flares, I had a little crumpled thought, 'Oh well, the moon. It's just another place like California.' One's imagination drags its feet as we are inexorably hauled into the future.

With a nearly desperate sense of isolation and a growing suspicion that I lived in an alien land, I took to the road in search of places where change did not mean ruin and where time and men and deeds connected.

I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.

It was difficult when I was very young because I was so separated from my family. When I was at school or acting in a play, I felt very much part of something, and then it would always change, and I would be by myself.

Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.

We explore astronomical life through medicate experience, and we live life through love and ardvarks.

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

To see far is one thing, going there is another.

As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.

The lunar flights give you a correct perception of our existence. You look back at Earth from the moon, and you can put your thumb up to the window and hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything you've ever known is behind your thumb, and that blue-and-white ball is orbiting a rather normal star, tucked away on the outer edge of a galaxy.

Everything else outside me seems far, far away.

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward

Out here, everything is bigger. You see strange things, and that changes you.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.

I'm interested in the cosmos. I want to know what's out there and how connected we are.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.