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.
A mystery of the universe is how it has managed to survive with so much volunteer help.
To play great music, you must keep your eyes on a distant star.
What kind of a universe would it be if we could not do small kindnesses for one another?
The body must not be violated. This is the greatest truth of the universe.
The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe.
Don't forget love;
it will bring all the madness you need
to unfurl yourself across the universe.
“Wonderful, isn’t it?”
“Wonderful and a little spooky.”
“Like all the best things in the universe.”
The perversity of the universe tends towards a maximum. The universe is hostile.