„The sky was horribly dark, but one could distinctly see tattered clouds, and between them fathomless black patches. Suddenly I noticed in one of these patches a star, and began watching it intently. That was because that star had given me an idea: I decided to kill myself that night.“

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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„There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.“
— Virginia Woolf
„Late this evening I looked at the sky and saw the stars. I felt as if it was the first time I had ever looked at them.I was stunned.The stars made an extraordinary impression on me“
— Andrei Tarkovsky
„I lay in bed at night crying to myself. The only one who loved me and watched over me was someone I couldn't see or hear or touch.“
— Marilyn Monroe
„Stars," she whispered. "I can see the stars again, my lady."A tear trickled down Artemis's cheek. "Yes, my brave one. They are beautiful tonight."Stars," Zoe repeated. Her eyes fixed on the night sky. And she did not move again.“
— Rick Riordan
„I never noticed the stars before. I always thought of them as great big diamonds that belonged to some one. Now they frighten me. They make me feel that it was all a dream, all my youth.“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald