“Oh, Constellations of the early night That sparkled brighter as the twilight died, And made the darkness glorious! I have seen Your rays grow dim upon the horizon's edge And sink behind the mountains. I have seen The great Orion, with his jewelled belt, That large-limbed warrior of the skies, go down Into the gloom. Beside him sank a crowd Of shining ones.” MadeNightStarsGrowsBehindsDarknessSkyMountainDiedShiningEdgesCrowdsWarriorGloriousHorizonRaysTwilightBeltsBrighterGloomConstellationsOrion Author:William C. Bryant
“I can't speak for the other people whose children have died, but I can speak for my family and the other members of Gold Star Families for Peace. We believe we're honoring our children by working for peace.” PeopleBelieveChildrenI CanSpeakStarsMembersMy FamilyGoldDiedOur Children Author:Cindy Sheehan
“Trillions of years into the future, when all stars are gone...all parts of the cosmos will cool to the same temperature as the ever-cooling background. At that time, space travel will no longer provide refuge because even Hell will have frozen over. We may then declare that the universe has died-not with a bang, but with a whimper.” YearsMayUniverseStarsSpaceGoneHellDiedBackgroundsCosmosRefugeFrozenExtinctionBangsTemperatureSpace TravelCoolingAll Stars Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Franz Kafka is dead. He died in a tree from which he wouldn't come down. "Come down!" they cried to him. "Come down! Come down!" Silence filled the night, and the night filled the silence, while they waited for Kafka to speak. "I can't," he finally said, with a note of wistfulness. "Why?" they cried. Stars spilled across the black sky. "Because then you'll stop asking for me."” SaidI CanNightSpeakStarsBlackSilenceTreeSkyDiedAskingFilledNotesCriedHistory Of LoveWistfulness Book:The History of Love: A Novel Source: The History of Love: A Novel
“The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water-the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.” PeopleNamesStarsWaterSkySpringAngelRiversThirdsDiedEnvironmentalBitterTrumpetsTorchesBlazingWormwood Author:John the Apostle
“All the atoms we are made of are forged from hydrogen in stars that died and exploded before our solar system formed. So if you are romantic, you can say we are literally stardust. If you are less romantic, you can say we're the nuclear waste from fuel that makes stars shine.” IfsMadeStarsWasteDiedShiningNuclearFuelAtomsSolar SystemStardustForgedHydrogenNuclear Waste Author:Martin Rees
“I'm a huge film star... but you have to hurry to the movies, because I usually die in the first 15 f--ing minutes. I'm the only guy I know who died in a f--ing Muppet movie.” KnowsFirstsFilmGuyDiesStarsMinutesHugeDiedFilm StarsMuppet Author:Billy Connolly