“Do you think the universe fights for souls to be together? Some things are too strange and strong to be coincidences.”— Emery Allen, amazon.com
“And I realize that no matter where I am, whether in a little room full of thought, or in this endless universe of stars and mountains, it’s all in my mind.”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com
“She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”— Carl Sagan, amazon.com
“Ultimately, the universe doesn’t care about us. Time doesn’t care about us. That’s why we have to care about each other.”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“Your entire universe is in your mind and nowhere else. To expand the universe, expand your mind.”— Deepak Chopra, goodreads.com
“Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims.”— H.G. Wells, amazon.com
“There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.”— Carl Sagan, amazon.com
“And I realize that no matter where I am, whether in a little room full of thought, or in this endless universe of stars and mountains, it’s all in my mind.”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com
“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“Telescope can see into the past. How can you see into the past? So light travels at a speed, so if something is 13 billion light-years away, what we see when we look at it happened 13 billion years ago because that's how long it took the light to get to us. Similarly, our sun is like 8 light-minutes…”— John Green, youtube.com
“It took humanity 99.9% of its existence to even understand that we live on a ball of rock, circling a globe of plasma... That understanding, the act of understanding, I think, is more important, than the existence of all star stuff in the universe.”— Hank Green, youtube.com
“Every sentence is a wispy net, capturing a few flecks of meaning. The sun shines without vocabulary. The salmon has no name for the urge that drives it upstream. The newborn groping for the nipple knows hunger long before it knows a single word. Even with an entire dictionary in one's head, one even…”— Scott Russell Sanders, amazon.com
“What memory is made of I cannot say; my body, at least, is made of atoms on loan from the earth. How implausible, that these atoms should have gathered to form this I, this envelope of skin that walks about.”— Scott Russell Sanders, amazon.com
“Afraid of dying, yes, but even more of not having lived, afraid of passing my days in a stupor, afraid of squandering my moment in the light.”— Scott Russell Sanders, amazon.com
“I also have another quality, and that is an unshakable hunger to know who I am, where I am, and into what sort of cosmos I have been so briefly and astonishingly sprung.”— Scott Russell Sanders, amazon.com
“'That's the universe unfolding," she told us, "right there in your hands. The same as in every cell of our bodies. Now why? That's the question I can't ever get behind. Why should the universe be alive? Why does it obey laws? And why these particular laws? For that matter, why is there a universe at…”— Scott Russell Sanders, amazon.com
“We are blessed to be tiny beings in this universe. We are blessed to feel momentous because we are larger than these grains of sand.”— Anne Rice, amazon.com
“The same math that makes it almost impossible for us to be alone in the universe also makes it almost impossible we'll meet any other beings.”— Night Vale podcast, twitter.com
“The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com