Constellations Quotes

• We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars.

  

  Jack Gilbert
  • See
  • Stars
  • Constellations

• Whatever god he adores, or even if he rejects all the gods, the man who desires to create cannot express himself if he does not feel in his veins the flow of all the rivers- even those which carry along sand and putrefaction, he is not realizing his entire being if he does not see the light of all the constellations, even those which no longer shine, if the primeval fire, even when locked beneath the crust of the earth, does not consume his nerves, if the hearts of all men, even the dead, even those still to be born, do not beat in his heart, if abstraction does not mount from his senses to his soul to raise it to the plane of the laws which cause men to act, the rivers to flow, the fire to burn, and the constellations to revolve.

  

  Elie Faure
  • God
  • Soul
  • Create

• The constellations this year seem unfavourable to rebels.

  

  Cesare Borgia
  • Constellations
  • Rebels
  • Unfavourable

• The universe is full of men going through the same motions in the same surroundings, but carrying within themselves, and projecting around them, universes as mutually remote as the constellations.

  

  Emmanuel Mounier
  • Universe
  • Surroundings
  • Motions

• You know a constellation of imperishable values. Live by the mighty truth and power of God. Live above the sludge of a sick society. Live among dispirited humans as the vanguard of peace and good news. Remember, our Commander in Chief has no use for tin soldiers.

  

  Carl F. H. Henry
  • Remember
  • Humans
  • Sick

• The stars we are given. The constellations we make. That is to say, stars exist in the cosmos, but constellations are the imaginary lines we draw between them, the readings we give the sky, the stories we tell.

  

  Rebecca Solnit
  • Giving
  • Reading
  • Given

• We gazed at the constellations, praising the portentous architecture of the sky with trite formulas.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Architecture
  • Formulas
  • Constellations

• The present rearranges the past. We never tell the story whole because a life isn't a story; it's a whole Milky Way of events and we are forever picking out constellations from it to fit who and where we are.

  

  Rebecca Solnit
  • Forever
  • Stories
  • Milky

• We write to find out what we didn’t know we knew. We write to know deeper and truer. We write to connect the dots: a whole new constellation.

  

  Carolyn Coman
  • Writing
  • Deeper
  • Constellations

• The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it's not treated - if there's not pharmacological intervention - it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Problem
  • Personality
  • Existence

• We humans are obsessed with lights...Perhaps it is our way of hurling the constellations back at the sky.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Humans
  • Obsessed
  • Constellations

• Let her remain where she is. A constellation away.

  

  Eric Gamalinda
  • Remain
  • Constellations

• The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all the lines drawn through all the stars, to be the constellation-maker and the center of the world, that center called love. To awaken from sleep, to rest from awakening, to tame the animal, to let the soul go wild, to shelter in darkness and blaze with light, to cease to speak and be perfectly understood.

  

  Rebecca Solnit
  • Darkness
  • Makers
  • Awakening

• Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Soul
  • Ideas
  • Stereotypes