Cold comradeship do stars provide.They light the closer, inner sideOf night's vast weight, which, chill and clear,Pulls on us like some puppeteer.Its unseen threads to heads and heartsAttached, it acts us through our parts,From birth's first cry to bent old age,Upon our distant, tiny stage.
You know what I__e learned? Most people are like a leaf, letting themselves drift and turn in the air. Eventually, they fall to the ground. But, others_ very few others_ are like stars. They have light within themselves to be their own guide. Sometimes, we look at the sky and don__ see the stars, because there is too much light bedimming them. To find the stars again, we have to go to a dark place.
Love Painted in Red
Quote Detail
You know what I__e learned? Most people are like a leaf, letting themselves drift and turn in the air. Eventually, they fall to the ground. But, others_ very few others_ are like stars. They have light within themselves to be their own guide. Sometimes, we look at the sky and don__ see the stars, because there is too much light bedimming them. To find the stars again, we have to go to a dark place.
Quick Answer
What this quote page tells you
This canonical quote page keeps the full saying, the attributed author, any linked work, and the topic tags together so the quote can be cited from one stable URL.
Related Quotes
More quote cards from the same area
There is no shortage of fault to be found amidst our stars.
There is not shortage of fault to be found amidst our stars.
To be angry at the gods is to scream at the stars. Even if they hear, they will not stop shining.
And the geography of the thing--the geography of them--was completely and hopelessly wrong.
There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night.