"When the star dies, its eye closes; tired of watching, it flies back to its first bright dream."

Dejan Stojanovic Literature See all quotes by Dejan Stojanovic →

React to this quote

More by Dejan Stojanovic

See all

“I imagined I was God for a millisecond and became speechless for a long time.”

“To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides.”

“Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.”

“I can see myself before myself—a being through dark scenery.”

“Possible impossibility emerges from an impossible possibility, or possibly, impossible possibility blooms from the impossibly possible impossibility.”

“Nothing is inanimate; what is the rest is our interpretation.”

Resonant Thoughts

"Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over ther…"

— Alan Moore

Literature1953

#life

"Loss of market begets unemployment. Emphasis has been on short-term profit, to the undernourishment of plans that might generate new product and service that would keep the company alive and provide j…"

— W. Edwards Deming

Mathematics1900–1993

#life

"Suicide wasn’t an option for me anymore, I found. Not like good old adolescent angst. I’m no longer of the secret opinion that death will somehow overlook me if I don’t do something personally about i…"

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Literature1949

#life

"St. Paul earned his living most of the time by hard labor and constantly reminded his converts that they must not defraud each other, but love one another and work with their own hands. The same rule …"

— Robert Hunter (author)

1824–1897

#life