Space Quotes
Science fiction and poetry share this page: Alastair Reynolds leads, then Milton, Shakespeare, Carl Sagan and Dejan Stojanovic. The best-sourced entries are small. Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892) has everyone in the gutter and some looking at the stars. Emerson’s Nature (1836) wonders how men would adore if the stars appeared one night in a thousand years. Stephen Crane’s poem from 1899 has a man announcing to the universe that he exists, and the universe replying that this has not created in it a sense of obligation.
“If we are alone in the Universe, it sure seems like an awful waste of space” is credited to Sagan and flagged misattributed, though the notes record a 1972 Boston University symposium where he said something close to it. Voltaire’s clockmaker line and a Marcus Aurelius line about harmony with the universe are disputed.
Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth.
The universe has resources of death which we have barely begun to pick at.
What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
What I want to know is this: Are the stars gold paper or is the gold paper stars?
Eternity and pain, pain and eternity — they are the only two things of which the universe is made.
Don’t go chattering to the stars if you’re going to do it with your eyes closed.
The universe is an abode of Divine mysteries, which are deposited in created things.
The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
Christ has a cosmic body that extends throughout the universe.