Universe Conspires Quotes

The thought of being alone is one of the scariest things that can happen. Us, humans, always long for a sense of belonging. Us, a tiny speck of dust in the galaxy, has a purpose—has a connection to something greater. A reverie that we are not and never alone. That the universe conspires to make us feel sought after.

We’ll never know, but a thing is for sure, we have great hope for that universe will cast its magic and show us miracles. If you are asking the universe for a sign, here it is.

Here is a collection of quotes about the universe that people can relate to:

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”

—Arthur C. Clarke

“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”

—Madeleine L’Engle

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”

—Rachel Carson

“I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone’s hand.”

—Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you’ve changed, by believing. Once you’ve changed, other things start to follow. Isn’t that the way it works?”

—Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

“Nothing happens until something moves.”

—Albert Einstein

“The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.”

—Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“The universe is big, its vast and complicated, and ridiculous. And sometimes, very rarely, impossible things just happen and we call them miracles. And that’s the theory. Nine hundred years, never seen one yet, but this would do me.”

—Steven Moffat

“Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.”

—Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

“Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.”

—John Lennon

 That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged — to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.”

—Hermann Hesse, Gertrude

“The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.”

—Carl Sagan, Contact

“Do you think the universe fights for souls to be together? Some things are too strange and strong to be coincidences.”

—Emery Allen

“All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it’s pretty damn complicated in the first place.”

—Douglas Adams

“You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.”

—Alan Watts

“Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.”

—Alan Wilson Watts

“If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.”

—C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts – it gives you what you demand with your actions.”

—Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

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

—Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.”

— Deepak Chopra

“The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.”

—Carl Sagan

“When you keep hitting walls of resistance in life, the universe is trying to tell you that you are going the wrong way. It’s like driving a bumper car at an amusement park. Each time you slam into another car or the edge of the track, you are forced to change direction.”

—Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Many nights I watch the sun set. Many nights I watch the moon. They fascinate me. They’re the only things I get to share with everyone: the stars, the moon, the universe.”

—Danielle Esplin, Give It Back

“The universe was full of wonders. Some of them would drive you insane if you thought about them too long.”

—Ilona Andrews, Sweep in Peace

“Life is an experiment, experiment by sending as many ideas in the universe and see which idea takes off and put your heart into that.”

—Matthew Donnelly

“Put your heart into even the smallest seemingly insignificant acts possible. Then be patient enough for the universe to give back to you what you reap.”

—Matthew Donnelly

“Surrender to the unknown and trust that the universe will lead you home.”

—Karen A. Baquiran

“To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.”

— Lao Tzu

“Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening.”

—Kamand Kojouri

“Everything you’ll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.”

— Dan Millman

“There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.”

— Deepak Chopra

 “You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately, you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself. What an amazing miracle.”

— Eckhart Tolle

“The universe had to fall apart into dust first to become its majestic, incredible, infinite self. What makes you think this breaking, this trauma, this destruction, won’t be the making of a more powerful you too?”

— Nikita Gill

“You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.”

— Max Ehrmann

“If we would just take a moment to look around, we would find that the universe is in constant communication with us.”

— Alexandria Hotmer

“The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“The universe took its time on you. Crafted you precisely so you could offer the world, something distinct from everyone else, so when you doubt how you were created, you doubt an energy greater than us both.”

— Rupi Kaur

 “The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”

— Eden Phillpotts

“Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.”

— Stephen Hawking

“If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.”

—Philip Dick

“Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.”

— Leonardo DaVinci

“But of course, the universe does not conspire to put you in one place rather than another.”

—John Green

“Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.”

— Alan Watts

“When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.”

— John Muir

“It’s difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness of the universe. Everything beautiful in the world is within you.”

— Russell Brand

“He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.”

—Marcus Aurelius

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