The Stars Are Going Out/Quotes

"I had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space"

- Lord Byron

"the stars are blowing out like candles, danny jane make a wish make a wish make a wish make a wish make a"

- Hour of Arrival

"The lights in the sky are waving goodbye And I am staying right beside you"

- Lights in the Sky

"The stars are not wanted now: put out every Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun; Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood. For nothing now can ever come to any good."

- W. H. Auden

"Donald,

Sorry to rush off without sayin’ goodbye, but there’s big trouble brewin’. Not sure why, but the stars have been blinkin’ out, one by one. And that means disaster can’t be far behind. I hate to leave you all but I’ve gotta go check into it."

- Mickey Mouse's letter

"With no fuel left to burn, a white dwarf's faint glow comes from the last residual heat of its extinguished furnace. The Sun is now dead, its remains slowly cooling in the freezing temperatures of deep space. Looking at it from where the Earth is now, it will only generate the same amount of light as a full moon on a clear night. The fate of the Sun is the same as for all stars. One day, they must all eventually die, and the cosmos will be plunged into eternal night."

- Professor Brian Cox, physicist

"Were all stars to disappear or die, I should learn to look at an empty sky And feel its total dark sublime, Though this might take me a little time."

- W. H. Auden


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