Star Quotes

After nature had drawn a few breaths, the star cooled and congealed, and the clever beasts had to die. One might invent such a fable, and yet he still would not have adequately illustrated how miserable, how shadowy and transient, how aimless and arbitrary the human intellect looks within nature.

Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing.

Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?

Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was the distinctively ascetic planet, a nook of disgruntled, arrogant creatures filled with a profound disgust with themselves, at the earth, at all life, who inflict as much pain on themselves as they possibly can out of pleasure in inflicting pain which is probably their only pleasure.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

If I'm not mistaken, Sigmund Freud said that in every idealisation there's an aggression. Depicting the Pope as a sort of Superman, a star, is offensive to me. The pope is a man who laughs, cries, sleeps calmly and has friends like everyone else. A normal person.

If we're going to have any chance of sending stuff to other star systems, we need to be laser-focused on becoming a multi-planet civilisation.

The discovery of a good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star.

Fix your course on a star and you'll navigate any storm.

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

My star was fading, I felt the reins slipping out of my grasp, and could do nothing to stop it.

Even when I am gone, I shall remain in people's minds the star of their rights, my name will be the war cry of their efforts, the motto of their hopes.

My mother made a brilliant impression upon my childhood life. She shone for me like the evening star.

As it gets closer and more probable, being a star is really losing its meaning.

You were born to rock, you'll never be an opera star.

I guess I've always lived the glamorous life of a star. It's nothing new - I used to spend down to the last dime.

I always knew I was a star And now, the rest of the world seems to agree with me.

They gave me star treatment because I was making a lot of money. But I was just as good when I was poor.

When you're 25, it's a little bit easier to be daring, especially if you are a pop star, because eccentric behavior is expected from you.

I went to New York. I had a dream. I wanted to be a big star, I didn't know anybody, I wanted to dance, I wanted to sing, I wanted to do all those things, I wanted to make people happy, I wanted to be famous, I wanted everybody to love me. I wanted to be a star. I worked really hard, and my dream came true.