Leonard Cohen Quotes

Look at the sky; remind yourself of the cosmos. Seek vastness at every opportunity in order to see the smallness of yourself.

However much I may be impressed by the difference between a star and the dark space around it, I must not forget that I can see the two only in relation to each other, and that this relation is inseparable.

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

Look up at the stars and you're gone.

We're just one rock surrounded by this immense universe.

Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.

Nature hasn't gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison.

A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.

You will never find scientists leading armies into battle. You just won't. Especially not astrophysicists - we see the biggest picture there is. We understand how small we are in the cosmos. We understand how fragile and temporary our existence is here on Earth.

The lunar flights give you a correct perception of our existence. You look back at Earth from the moon, and you can put your thumb up to the window and hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything you've ever known is behind your thumb, and that blue-and-white ball is orbiting a rather normal star, tucked away on the outer edge of a galaxy.

I could put my thumb up to a window and completely hide the Earth. I thought, 'Everything I've ever known is behind my thumb.'

I'll go out at night and look up at the stars and think, 'How ridiculously inconsequential I am in the scheme of things.'

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery. You can show things that you like about the universe, things that you hate about the universe. It's capable of doing both.

Look up at the stars, not down at your feet.

I'm too small for the universe to revolve around me. It is a huge relief!

I don?t feel rejected by the sky. I?m a part of it- tiny, to be sure, but everything is tiny compared to that overwhelming immensity.

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

So many things in the world have happened before. But it's like they never did. Every new thing that happens to a person, it's a first... In that night I felt expansion, as if the world was branching out in shoots and growing faster than the eye could see. I felt smallness, how the earth divided into bits and kept dividing. I felt stars.

The cosmic calendar is quite a fertile mode for communicating how small we are over time and space.

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

...and I went into the garden and lay down and looked at the stars in the sky and made myself negligible.

Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.

On a really dark night, you can see between 1,000 and 1,500 stars, and there are millions more that haven't been discovered. It is so easy to think that the world revolves around you, but all you have to do is stare up at the sky to realize it isn't that way at all. -Brian Fitzgerald

I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.

The star shines for everyone in the world, but in reality, it itself is surrounded in darkness.