Stars - Quotes from Science Fiction

A lot of quotations carefully collected from a very big amount of books and divided by categories.

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What, are the stars still there? What is the use of stars when there are no human beings?

- Karel Capek, R.U.R. (play, 1921), translated by P. Selver (1923)

The sky was lousy with stars - nasty little pinpoints of cold hostility that had neither the remoteness of space nor the friendly warmth of Earth.

- Lester del Rey, ''Over the Top'' (1949)

O God, there were so many stars you could have used. What was the need to give these people to the fire, that the symbol of their passing might shine above Bethlehem?

- Arthur C. Clarke, ''The Star'' (1955)

There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.

- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King (1955)

If you have only lived on Earth, you have never seen the Sun.

- Arthur C. Clarke, ''Out of the Sun'' (1958)

It was stunning enough, that view of the galactic wilderness. Colossal ramparts of scattered and clotted suns rose up in front of them, gleaming hotly in clusters like great hives of stars or shining out like foggy witchfires through the farflung nebulae. A dark cloud brooded to the left, with the starlight from behind it forming a shining halo around it. Close ahead to the right hung a magnificent double star whose components were pale yellow and smoky red, and the size of those two suns increased visibly as he watched.

- Edmond Hamilton, The Star of Life, revised (1959)

Look the stars in the eyes as you did for ten thousand years, and know them for your brothers.

- Edmond Hamilton, The Star of Life, revised (1959)

No man could argue with the Sun in one of its rages, even though he might ride upon its beams to the edge of space.

- Arthur C. Clarke, ''TheWind from the Sun'' (1964)

Whoever made the stars set them too far apart for humans.

- William F. Temple, ''The Legend of Ernie Deacon'' (1965)

It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.

- Arthur C. Clarke, ''Epilogue: Beyond Apollo'' (1969)

He walked the hills and knew what the hills had seen through geologic time. He listened to the stars and spelled out what the stars were saying.

- Clifford D. Simak, ''The Thing in the Stone'' (1970)

Starlight helped her to see. Orange starlight. Gold starlight. Starlight like the reddest rose. The stars were friends, she was sure.

- Doris Pitkin Buck, ''The Giberel'' (1971)

The sun circles us and the stars are jewels on the nightcloak of the Mother.

- Mildred Downey Broxon, ''The Night Is Cold, the Stars Are Far Away'' (1974)

I want you to teach me to talk to the stars.

- Gordon Eklund and Gregory Benford, ''If the Stars Are Gods'' (1974)

The stars had never hesitated. Perhaps the noble certainty of their gait had been a mere effect of distance. Perhaps in fact they had hurtled wildly, enormous furnace-fragments of a primal bomb thrown through the cosmic dark; but time and distance soften all agony. If the universe, as seems likely, began with an act of destruction, the stars we had used to see told no tales of it. They had been implacably serene.

- Ursula K. Le Guin, ''The New Atlantis'' (1975)

Somewhere a star was going nova, a black hole was vacuuming space, a comet was combing its hair.

- KateWilhelm, ''Mrs. Bagley Goes to Mars'' (1978)

Elsewhere thronged stars, so many and so brilliant that they well-nigh drowned the blackness which held them. The MilkyWay was a torrent of silver.

- Poul Anderson, ''The Saturn Game'' (1981)

Nothing but stars, scattered across the blackness as though the Creator had smashed the windscreen of his car and hadn't bothered to stop to sweep up the pieces.

- Terry Pratchett, Pyramids (1989)