Jeanette Winterson Quotes

The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct

Staring at the stars was like staring backward in time, since some stars are so far away that their light takes millions of years just to reach us. That we see stars not as they look now, but as they were when dinosaurs roamed the earth. The whole concept just struck me as…amazing somehow.

We are the star and the darkness it peirces

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

There's no night without stars.

Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

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.

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

The Word of God is the universal and invisible Light, cognizable by the senses, that emits its blaze in the Sun, Moon, Planets, and other Stars.

Counting stars by candlelight all are dim but one is bright; the spiral light of Venus rising first and shining best, from the northwest corner of a brand-new crescent moon crickets and cicadas sing a rare and different tune.

Earth-treading stars that make dark heaven light

Stars veil their beauty soon / Beside the glorious moon, / When her full silver light / Doth make the whole earth bright.

God is able to place stars in their sockets & suspend sky like a curtain; surely He is mighty enough to light your path.

There are stars in the night sky that look brighter than the others, and when you look at them through a telescope you realize you are looking at twins. The two stars rotate around each other, sometimes taking nearly a hundred years to do it. They create so much gravitational pull there's no room around for anything else. You might see a blue star, for example, and realize only later that it has a white dwarf as a companion - that first one shines so bright, by the time you notice the second one, it's too late.

There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.

When the light of the star which flows into my eyes as a drop of gold first pierced the darkness in space, there was not a single eye on earth looking at the sky.

The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.

Look for the stars, you'll say that there are none; / Look up a second time, and, one by one, / You mark them twinkling out with silvery light, / And wonder how they could elude the sight!

Outside the sky is light with stars

It’s never occurred to me that the stars are still up there shining even in the daytime when we can’t see them.

The immense distances to the stars and the galaxies mean that we see everything ins pace int he past, some as they were before the Earth came to be. Telescopes are time machines.

There is no light in earth or heaven but the cold light of stars; and the first watch of night is given to the red planet Mars.

Atoms are a relationship of energy. You are a relationship of energy interacting with another person who is another complex relationship of energy. We all exchange more than words with each other. . . We are made of the same substance as rocks and stars. .. We are an exotic cocktail living on this planet. .. We live in this universe which is a self-transcending reality

If you never saw the stars, candles were enough.