51 Cosmic Quotes

When the American astronomer, Carl Sagan, was five years old, his mom sent him to a local library and he became fond of astronomical literature.

Soon afterward, Carl Sagan was able to travel with his parents to the New York Fair and he became immensely fascinated by the popular '50s science-fiction stories that occupied popular magazines at the time. Does this seem quite relatable to you?

Here is a list of 51 fascinating cosmic quotes that you must read to satisfy the inner cosmos scientist in you.

Cosmic Quotes About Life

The following cosmic quotes about life will help you understand life and its course through a distinct outlook.

"Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?"

- Carl Sagan.

"A cosmic war is like a ritual drama in which participants act out on Earth a battle they believe is actually taking place in the heavens."

- Reza Aslan.

"One's worth is humanity's worth in the cosmic perspective and perception."

- Alfred Henry.

"You are a cosmic traveler; your body is temporary, but its essence is eternal."

- Dave Zebian.

"We are fortunate: we are alive; we are powerful; the welfare of our civilization and our species is in our hands. If we do not speak for Earth, who will? If we are not committed to our own survival, who will be?"

- Carl Sagan.

"For our hope in the future is cosmic, forging human history into eternity."

- David Paul.

"The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism...."

- Albert Einstein.

"The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more amazing becomes what human beings have achieved."

- Bertrand Russel.

"In our time this search (for extraterrestrial life) will eventually change our laws, our religions, our philosophies, our arts, our recreations, as well as our sciences. Space, the mirror, waits for life to come look for itself there."

- Ray Bradbury.

"The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries."

- Carl Sagan.

"Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at the galaxy's edge... there is all the more reason for us to maintain in proper balance what we have here. Because there is nothing else. No thing. This is it. And quite enough, all in all."

- Gore Vidal.

"We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity."

- Paulo Coelho.

"The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together."

- Carl Sagan.

"Thrill me, chill me I went in search of money and success, all I got was a bellyful of excess! Now that I've realigned myself I’m on my tip-toes because life is sweet! I'm overwhelmed with gratitude for all the blessings that are manifesting in my life … neat!"

- Stephen Richards.

"The roles of art, morality, religion, political faith, science itself are not to repair organic exhaustion nor to provide sound functioning of the organs. All this supraphysical life is built and expanded not because of the demands of the cosmic environment but because of the demands of the social environment."

- Emile Durkheim.

"I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it."

- Ben Lindsey.

"The animus is meant to be cosmic. It is a function which should widen out the spiritual or mental possibilities into infinite space, as it were, into the infinity of the collective mind."

- C.G. Jung.

Cosmic Quotes About The Universe

Here is a list of amazing cosmic quotes that everyone must read to learn more about space, universe, and cosmos.

"The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony."

- Ruth Bernhard.

"The only planet we are sure is inhabited is a tiny speck of rock and metal, shining feebly by reflected sunlight, and at this distance utterly lost."

– Carl Sagan.

"Everything is determined by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect as well as the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper."

- Albert Einstein.

"According to the scientific naturalist version of cosmic history, nature is a permanently closed system of material effects that can never be influenced by something from outside - like God, for example."

- Phillip E. Johnson.

"Everyone is part of a connected cosmic system. Part earth and sea, wind and fire, with some salt and dust swimming in them. We have a universe within ourselves that mimics the universe outside."

- Suzy Kassem, 'Rise Up And Salute The Sun'.

"It is a remarkable illustration of the ranging power of the human intellect that a principle first detected in connection with the clumsy puffing of the early steam engines should be found to apply to the whole world, and possibly, even to the whole cosmic universe."

- Alfred Ubbelohde.

"Scientists say earth dwellers should have little fear of rogue stars zooming into the path of the sun, as they say our star, which resides in the cosmic backwaters of the Milky Way, will likely burn out long before any star comes floating by."

- Nick Belardes.

"Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars."

- Carl Sagan, 'Cosmos'.

"It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar secondary radiation phenomena in the earth's atmosphere? can only be obtained from numerous measurements in the stratosphere."

- Victor Francis Hess.

"What happens in the first second of the next cosmic year depends on what we do, here and now, with our intelligence and our knowledge of the cosmos."

- Carl Sagan, 1990, 'The Shores Of The Cosmic Ocean'.

"Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought, a tiny little twig on the enormously arborescent bush of life, which if replanted from seed, would almost surely not grow this twig again."

- Stephen Jay Gould.

"I felt, in brief agonies of disillusionment, the gigantic blackness of this overwhelming universe, in which my days and the days of my race were as nothing to the shattered stars; a universe in which each action is vain and even the emotion of grief a wasted thing."

- H.P. Lovecraft, 'The Night Ocean'.

"A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon."

- G.K. Chesterton.

"A feeling that was possibly generated by experiences in my previous work on cosmic rays; more likely it was inborn and was the reason why, as a young man, I went into the field of cosmic rays."

- Bruno Rossi.

"The Moon is a ball of left-over debris from a cosmic collision that took place more than four billion years ago. A Mars-sized asteroid - one of the countless planetesimals that were frantically churning our solar system into existence - hit the infant Earth, bequeathing it a very large natural satellite."

- Seth Shostak.

"In order to make further progress, particularly in the field of cosmic rays, it will be necessary to apply all our resources and apparatus simultaneously and side-by-side; an effort which has not yet been made, or at least, only to a limited extent."

- Victor Francis Hess.

Cosmic Quotes About Peace

These cosmic quotes about peace will lead you to the path of true freedom and inner consciousness.

"Old stories hold that the birds will fly all the miles of the world to tell your secrets to the rising moon, and men will walk over oceans of ice to find one truth."

- Tamara Rendell.

"Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another."

- Carl Sagan.

"The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean."

- Carl Sagan, 2011, 'Cosmos'.

"Zen is influenced by Daoism, which is not so much a nature-religion in the animistic sense as a nature-philosophy in a cosmic sense."

- Quentin S. Crisp.

"Our thoughts are like roots which reach out in every direction into the cosmic ocean of formless energy, and these thought-roots set in motion vibrations like themselves and attract the affinities of our desires and ambitions."

- Orison Swett Marden.

"Each day of human life contains joy and anger, pain and pleasure, darkness and light, growth and decay. Each moment is etched with nature's grand design, do not try to deny or oppose the cosmic order of things."

- Morihei Ueshiba.

"The sun would rise from the eastern horizon, and cut it's way across the empty sky, and sink below the western horizon. This was the only perceptible change in our surroundings. And in the movement of the sun, I felt something I hardly know how to name: some huge, cosmic love."

- Haruki Murakami, 1994, 'The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle'.

"The universe is full of magical things to be manifested with Cosmic Ordering."

- Stephen Richards.

"You are a cosmic flower. Om chanting is the process of opening the psychic petals of that flower."

- Amit Ray, 'Om Chanting And Meditation'.

"But when the world is, indeed, in chaos, then an affirmation of cosmos becomes essential."

- Madeleine L'Engle.

"In this vast cosmic orchestra, peace is the music of every heart. Our glory lies in understanding, listening and honoring that music."

- Amit Ray.

"Those who see the cosmic perspective as a depressing outlook, they really need to reassess how they think about the world. Because when I look up in the universe, I know I'm small but I'm also big. I'm big because I'm connected to the universe, and the universe is connected to me."

- Neil deGrasse Tyson.

"Once, men and women were able to turn themselves into eagles and fly immense distances. They communed with rivers and mountains and received wisdom from them. They felt the turning of the stars inside their own minds."

- Susanna Clarke, 'Piranesi'.

"Youth looks at its world and age looks through it; youth must get busy on problems whose outlines stand single and strenuous before it, while age can, with luck, achieve a cosmic private harmony unsuited for action as a rule."

- Freya Stark.

"Normally, adults process their waking experiences during sleep. Children cannot yet carry their waking experiences into sleep. Thus, in sleep, they settle into the general cosmic order without taking their physical experience into the cosmic order."

- Rudolf Steiner.

"The true poet is of the hero type, soaring above sensual gratification and rational formulas. The language of poetry has the potential for generating cosmic visions and the optimism of a regenerative belief system."

- Fred Kaplan.

"In order to reach home, where you have the guidance of cosmic insight, you must first depart from your present location. You cannot remain in the noisy city of your own vanities and expect to know what to do. Cosmic knowledge and personal vanity do not mingle."

- Vernon Howard.

"Cosmic love is your birthright. Meditative sensitivity opens you up to the higher realms of existence. The explosive cosmic and soul love we seek can only be experienced when your heart is fully open first."

- Shalom Melchizedek, 'Learning To Love'.