80+ Best Space Quotes for Space Enthusiasts

Are you looking for space quotes? Here is the right place to get the best collections of space quotes. These quotes transcend earthly boundaries, charging the vastness, mystery, and wonder of the universe.

She had always loved the stars. – Sasha Alsberg

Suddenly, from behind the rim of the moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white jewel, a light, delicate sky-blue sphere laced with slowly swirling veils of white, rising gradually like a small pearl in a thick sea of black mystery. It takes more than a moment to fully realize this is Earth… home. — Edgar Mitchell

I’m convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon.

It is a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one’s safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract. ― Alan Shepard

I’m sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It’s just been too intelligent to come here. ― Arthur C. Clarke

Space Quotes

I know the sky is not the limit because there are footprints on the moon — and I made some of them! — Buzz Aldrin

To be the first to enter the cosmos, to engage, single-handedly, in an unprecedented duel with nature—could one dream of anything more?

The exploration of space will go ahead, whether we join in it or not, and it is one of the great adventures of all time.

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

Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.

Through you, we feel like giants, once again. – President Ronald Reagan

In the van, we can see the rocket in the distance, lit up and shining an obelisk. In reality, of course, it’s a 4.5-megaton bomb loaded with explosive fuel, which is why everyone else is driving away from it. — Chris Hadfield

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

It’s a fixer-upper of a planet, but we could make it work. ― Elon Musk

I don’t pretend to understand the universe–it’s much bigger than I am.

When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is. Mankind, let us preserve and increase this beauty, and not destroy it!

I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.

You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.

Planet Earth is actually a giant spaceship floating through space.

We are limited only by our imagination and our will to act. — Ron Garan

Part of life’s mystery depends on future possibilities, and mystery is an elusive quality that evaporates when sampled frequently, to be followed by boredom.

There are so many problems to solve on this planet before we begin to trash other worlds. ― E. A. Bucchianeri

If the government is covering up knowledge of aliens, they are doing a better job of it than they do at anything else. ― Stephen Hawking

I don’t know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.

Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.

I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up—many people feel small because they’re small and the Universe is big, but I feel big because my atoms came from those stars.

Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns. – Carl Sagan

It’s easy to sleep floating around — it’s very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don’t float into somebody or something — James Irwin

Space, it says, is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is.

The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn’t have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don’t have a space program, it’ll serve us right! ― Larry Niven

After one look at this planet, any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager – William S. Burroughs

Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives.

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

Their position seems to be that their God is so great he doesn’t even have to exist.

I didn’t know someone could love me like this,” she said. “Could love me and love me and love me without…needing space. Lincoln wasn’t asleep. He rolled on top of her. There’s no air in space

It is a fixer-upper of a planet but we could make it work. – Elon Musk

Once you’ve been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is. – Valentina Tereshkova

Again the pressure pushes me into the chair, and shut my eyes. I notice the dark red tongues of the flame outside the windows. I’m trying to memorize, fix all the feelings, the peculiarities of this descending, to tell those, who will be conquering space after me.

Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot live in a cradle forever.

New generations grew to maturity wholly ignorant of the sky that had transfixed their ancestors and that had stimulated the modern age of science and technology. Without even noticing, just as astronomy entered a golden age most people cut themselves off from the sky, a cosmic isolationism that ended only with the dawn of space exploration.

It’s so stupid because all I wanted was space and now that I have it, there’s this part of me that’s achingly lonely I could die.

Astronauts are inherently insane. And really noble. – Andy Weir

I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul. We’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream. — Neil Armstrong

Yes, there have been ET visitations. There have been crashed craft. There have been materials and bodies recovered.

Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.

The single simplest reason why human space flight is necessary is this, stated as plainly as possible: keeping all your breeding pairs in one place is a retarded way to run a species. ― Warren Ellis

I’d like to go to another planet, which I might live long enough to accomplish. Just get on a spaceship and go. But not the moon. I don’t see any flowers there. The moon is too close. I want to go further. – Shirley MacLaine

Studying whether there’s life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there’s something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That’s something that is almost part of being human, and I’m certain that will continue.

The exploration of space will go ahead, whether we join in it or not, and it is one of the greatest adventures of all time, and no nation that expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in the race for space.

Einstein has overcome time and space. Harvey has overcome not only time and space–but any objections.

Things aren’t scary. People are scared. – Chris Hadfield

Earth is a small town with many neighborhoods in a very big universe. — Ron Garan

Yet, for most of us, the most memorable sight was not of the moon but of our beautiful blue and white home, moving majestically around the sun, all alone in the infinite black space.

There were only the great diamonds and sapphires and emerald mists and velvet inks of space, with God’s voice mingling among the crystal fires. ― Ray Bradbury

I’ve always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we’re the only life form in the galaxy. – Jonathan Frakes

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It’s posing questions and coming up with a method. It’s delving in.

…he had only to put the corpse where he had left the new baby at the last quarter of the moon, and the hyenas would do the rest.

Curiosity is the essence of our existence. – Gene Cernan

We’re not words, Henry, we’re people. Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose.

Space is for everybody. It’s not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That’s our new frontier out there, and it’s everybody’s business to know about space. — Christa McAuliffe

The moon was out of orbit. The stars were awry. But everything else was exactly as it should have been. ― Roman Payne

An astronaut is someone who’s able to make good decisions quickly, with incomplete information, when the consequences really matter.

I find it curious that I never heard any astronaut say that he wanted to go to the moon so he would be able to look back and see the Earth. We all wanted to see what the moon looked like close up. Yet, for most of us, the most memorable sight was not of the moon, but of our beautiful blue and white home, moving majestically around the sun, all alone and in infinite black space.

A great bear lumbered by. He spied the mitten all plumped up. Not being one to be left out in the cold, he began to nose his way in.

How dare you open a spaceman’s helmet on an uncharted planet? My eyeballs could’ve been sucked from their sockets!

I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all. — Alan Shepard

Our inner space and our peace of mind are affected by our outer space. ― Thích Nhất Hạnh

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.– Carl Sagan

Life is full of so many small, unexpected pleasures, not just in space but right here on Earth, and I think I see them more clearly now than I used to because microgravity insists you pay attention.

Anyone who sits on top of the largest hydrogen-oxygen fueled system in the world, knowing they’re going to light the bottom, and doesn’t get a little worried, does not fully understand the situation.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

Up and up he went… HIGHER and HIGHER… FASTER and FASTER.. He was going so fast and so high that soon the earth was just a tiny dot miles below.

I should say: that the house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer, and the house allows one to dream in peace.

Every single astronaut who has come back from space comes back determined to do more to protect it. — Richard Branson

The first day or so we all pointed to our countries. On the third or fourth day, we were pointing to our continents. By the fifth day, we were only aware of one Earth.

Like we’re here, and at the same time, in outer space. Which, of course, we are. We’re all untethered, all flying around in the dark, the same as Mars and Venus, the same as the stars. ― Maria Dahvana Headley

You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it’s like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place in the cosmos. – Tom Hanks

If seeing 16 sunrises a day and all of Earth’s variety steadily on display for five months had taught me anything, it was that there are always more challenges and opportunities out there than time to experience them.

He whizzed on and on. He whizzed far into space. He whizzed past the moon. He whizzed past stars and planets. Until at last…with the most tremendous BANG! The enormous Crocodile crashed headfirst into the hot hot son. And he was sizzled up like a sausage!

The moment that judgment stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.

We are finite, in that we are a product and source of the infinite. – Ilyas Kassam

I really believe that if the political leaders of the world could see their planet from a distance of, let’s say 100,000 miles, their outlook would be fundamentally changed. The all-important border would be invisible; that noisy argument suddenly silenced. — Michael Collins

The universe is not a stagnant place where technology stands still and only a few govern its destiny.

When you’re getting ready to launch into space, you’re sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen. – Sally Ride

We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and set up new laboratories in space. They are as much beyond our vision today as fire or electricity would be beyond the imagination of a fish.― Arthur C. Clarke

Space travel made me feel I have a personal obligation to be a good steward of our planet and to educate others about what’s happening to it.

Mankind is drawn to the heavens for the same reason we were once drawn into unknown lands and across the open sea. We choose to explore space because doing so improves our lives and lifts our national spirit. Let us continue the journey.

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