Once I sat upon a promontory,
And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back,
Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath,
That the rude sea grew civil at her song,
And certain stars shot madly from their spheres
To hear the sea-maid's music.
~
A Midsummer Night's Dream
by
William Shakespeare
The daylight, the trailing glory of the sun, went streaming out of the sky, was drawn aside like some luminous curtain, and at last I looked into the blue gulf of immensity which the sunshine hides, and saw the floating hosts of the stars.
~
The Island of Doctor Moreau
by
H. G. Wells
I shall never sleep calmly again when I think of the horrors that lurk ceaselessly behind life in time and in space, and of those unhallowed blasphemies from elder stars which dream beneath the sea, known and favoured by a nightmare cult ready and eager to loose them upon the world whenever another earthquake shall heave their monstrous stone city again to the sun and air.
~
The Call of Cthulhu
by
H. P. Lovecraft
Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.
~
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
by
William Shakespeare
"I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river; to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything."
~
Night and Day
by
Virginia Woolf
Human beings, on the contrary, have a soul which lives forever, lives after the body has been turned to dust. It rises up through the clear, pure air beyond the glittering stars.
~
The Little Mermaid
by
Hans Christian Andersen
The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
~
Ulysses
by
James Joyce
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
~
Lady Windermere's Fan
by
Oscar Wilde
Lights of ships moved in the fairway—a great stir of lights going up and going down. And farther west on the upper reaches the place of the monstrous town was still marked ominously on the sky, a brooding gloom in sunshine, a lurid glare under the stars.
~
Heart of Darkness
by
Joseph Conrad
My imagination requires a judicious rein; I am afraid to let it loose, for it carries me sometimes into appalling places beyond the stars and beneath the world.
~
The Listener
by
Algernon Blackwood