C. S. Lewis Quotes

I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.

The stars, they are as the sun. Each star. Every star. And those spheres- they are worlds, realms, each one different yet the same.

Talk about celestial bodies.

It shouldn't be so difficult to determine what a planet is. When you're watching a science fiction show like 'Star Trek' and they show up at some object in space and turn on the viewfinder, the audience and the people in the show know immediately whether it's a planet or a star or a comet or an asteroid.

I have a thing about stars, they are my favourite motif.

Planets were very large places, on any scale but that of the spaces in between them.

The stars associated with the solar system, such as the planets and asteroids (and it should be remembered that the term star in Biblical usage applies to any heavenly body other than the sun and moon) would be particularly likely to be involved, in the view of the heavy concentration of angels, both bad and evil, around the planet Earth.

All the stars that never were are parking cars and pumping gas.

We lay there and looked up at the night sky and she told me about stars called blue squares and red swirls and I told her I'd never heard of them. Of course not, she said, the really important stuff they never tell you. You have to imagine it on your own.

The stars are not wanted now, put out every one Pack up the moon & dismantle the sun.

Stars in the night,' he said. 'Something something something something, some delight

The planets. Now footnote, I'm including Pluto in the planets, because I think it's terrible what they did to Pluto. And it's still a planet to me. I grew up with Pluto as a planet, it will always be a planet.

Every star may be a sun to someone.

They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.

The first inspiration I ever had was the cosmos, the planetary system.

Stars were made to suffer, and I am a star.

The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection. Nature never became a toy to a wise spirit. The flowers, the animals, the mountains, reflected the wisdom of his best hour, as much as they had delighted the simplicity of his childhood.

No star seemed less than what science has taught us that it is.

Every star has been set in the sky. We mistakenly think they were put there for us.

The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very well where they are, I know they suffice for those who belong to them.

a handful of crumpled stars

There were stars. They burned my eyes.

People and stars are made of the same stuff.

To understand the stars would spoil their appearance.