155 Sky Quotes & Captions For Those Looking Up to The Blue (2021)

The moon, the sun, the stars and the clouds, all will speak directly to your soul with these lovely sky quotes.

In life, inspiration can come from many different sources. You can find inspiration in so many places – big or small. When seeking for inspiration, many people often look to the sky.

The sky inspires us in many ways. Besides holding ground for the heavens, the sky suggests optimism, dreaming, peace, strength, and a connection with the atmosphere and the universe at large.

If you’re a dreamer, you can look to the sky as you search for a better place. You’ll be inspired to march towards your goals and dreams of success while wide awake.

For the optimist, the sky reminds us that all things are possible. It’s a promise for new undertakings and represents the blank slate given by life to craft your life story. Even during bleak times, the sky provides reason for optimism.

Whenever you need a touch of inspiration to reignite the fire in your soul, look up to the power of the sky. In that respect, below is our collection of inspirational, fascinating, and uplifting sky quotes, sky sayings, and sky proverbs, collected from a variety of sources over the years. And don’t forget one of the sky’s most breathtaking offerings, the sun! Check out our beautiful sunset quotes for an additional fix. Enjoy!

Don’t forget to also read our collection of inspirational rainbow quotes that will help bring hope and positive energy in your day.

Uplifting Sky Quotes For Those Who Marvel The World Above

1. “The sky is honestly the limit, so I’m excited to see what the future holds.” – Carmella

2. “The sky is an infinite movie to me. I never get tired of looking at what’s happening up there.” – K. D. Lang

3. “I love to work out under a clear sky with lots of fresh air purifying my lungs.” –  Nushrat Bharucha

4. “Smell the sea and feel the sky, Let your soul and spirit fly.” – Van Morrison

5. “There was always something new to be seen in the unchanging night sky.” – Fritz Leiber

6. “The sky takes on shades of orange during Sunrise and Sunset. The color that gives you hope, that Sun will set, only to rise again.” — Ram Charan

7. “In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.” – Gautama Buddha

8. “Aim for the sky, but move slowly, enjoying every step along the way. It is all those little steps, that makes the journey complete.” — Chanda Kochhar

9. “Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.” –  Arna Bontemps

10. “Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.” –  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Sky quotes that will inspire you to look up and stay positive

11. “We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon.” – Konrad Adenauer

12. “Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams.” –  Haruki Murakami

13. “I always believe that the sky is the beginning of the limit.” — MC Hammer

14. “The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.” – John Ruskin

15. “The sky is the source of light in nature – and governs everything.” – John Constable

16. “If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields, has the power to move you, if the simple things of Nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.” — Eleonora Duse

17. “A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

18. “I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.” – Gustave Flaubert

19. “A cloudless plain blue sky is like a flowerless garden.” – Terri Guillemets

If you’re enjoying these quotes, make sure to read our collection of garden quotes about the power of nature.

20. “Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.” – Henry David Thoreau

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Sky quotes to help you see the endless opportunities around you

21. “No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.” – Llewelyn Powys

22. “Meet me where the sky touches the sea. Wait for me where the world begins.” – Jennifer Donnelly

23. “The sky, a perfect empty canvas, offers clouds nonetheless. They shift and drift and beg interpretation… such is the nature of art.” – Jeb Dickerson

24. “Don’t forget, beautiful sunsets, need cloudy skies.” — Paulo Coelho

25. “Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth.” – Diane Ackerman

26. “Only from the heart can you touch the sky.” – Rumi

27. “The sky was incredibly far away, and beautiful enough to make a person wonder why our hearts are never so free.” – Banana Yoshimoto

28. “In the sky an infinitude of hope, a canvas of glory—all possibilities mine.” – Terri Guillemets

29. “The sky is not the limit, it’s just the view.” – Anonymous

30. “The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sky quotes to help you reach your highest potential

31. “If the sky could dream, it would dream of dragons.” – Ilona Andrews

32. “And they were canopied by the blue sky, So cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful,That God alone was to be seen in Heaven.” – Lord Byron

33. “Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.” – Anais Nin

34. “The sky and the strong wind have moved the spirit inside me till I am carried away trembling with joy.” – Uvavnuk

35. “The seasons do not push one another; neither do clouds race the wind across the sky. All things happen in their own good time.” – Dan Millman

36. “The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.” –  Frank McCourt

37. “Bursts of gold on lavender melting into saffron. It’s the time of day when the sky looks like it has been spray-painted by a graffiti artist.” –  Mia Kirshner

38. “For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.” – Vincent Van Gogh

39. “It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.” – John Ruskin
If you’re enjoying these quotes, you’ll love our collection of short uplifting quotes that inspire positivity.

40. “Even when the sky is filled with clouds, the Sun still shines above.” — Janet Donaghy

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Beautiful and inspirational quotes about the sky

41. “Our aim may be as high as the endless sky, but we should have a resolve in our minds to walk ahead, hand-in-hand, for victory will be ours.” –  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

42. “The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

43. “There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.” ― Victor Hugo

44. “The night sky is a miracle of infinitude.” – Terri Guillemets

45. “We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.” –  Anton Chekhov

46. “Imagine there’s no heaven, it’s easy if you try. No hell below us, above us only sky. Imagine all the people living for today…” – John Lennon

47. “You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.” ― Pema Chödrön (see more quotes from Pema Chödrön)

48. “The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.” – Edna St. Vincent Millay

49. “Day holds the sky with big blue arms Until the sun sends her off into evening With a grateful blaze of vibrant colors.” – Terri Guillemets

50. “I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.” – E. E. Cummings

Sky quotes to broaden your thoughts

51. “We have chased away the clouds, the sky is all ‘rose.’” – Francois Hollande

52. “Moment the sky embraces the earth is called a rainbow.”― Corina Abdulahm Negura

53. “Mind is the second sky on earth, full of mysteries!”― Mehmet Murat ildan

54. “Every cloud comes adrifting across the sky to tell us its story!”― Avijeet Das

55. “Don’t need a magic carpet to soar or wings to fly. I simply close my eyes and place my soul against the sky.”― Melody Lee

If you’re enjoying these quotes, make sure to read our collection of magic quotes about the power of the unseen.

56. “You can never have too much sky. You can fall asleep and wake up drunk on sky, and sky can keep you safe when you are sad.”― Cisneros Sandra

57. “O sky above me, you modest, glowing sky! O you, my happiness before sunrise! Day is coming: so let us part!”― Friedrich Nietzsche

58. “I would rather have sunshine and wind and sky adorn my head than a handsome bonnet.”― Julianne Donaldson

59. “Do you see how the sky holds the sun?
In a powerful but effortless way that shows off her beauty and strength?
That’s how a King holds his Queen.”― J.A. ANUM

60. “Life is the night sky, all the dots of stars are happiness.”― Richard L. Ratliff

Also read these airplane quotes and sayings about flying and travel.

Sky quotes to inspire and motivate you

61. “No matter how tough my life was, I was always looking up at the sky and wishing for good things.” – Mahira Khan

62. “To touch the sky, you just have to get that little bit closer.”― Anthony T. Hincks

63. “Our mind is a limitless sky and we can only be an albatross flying in the vast expanse to occasionally discover the joys of sublimity!”― Avijeet Das

64. “The sky was so thick with stars it was as if he could reach out and brush them with his hand.”― Justin Cronin

65. “Sky is proud of its bright stars; earth is proud of its bright minds!”― Mehmet Murat ildan

66. “The sky wraps us in a chilled blanket of milky stars.”― Charlotte Menke

67. “The morning sky is a thought of the stars.”― Will Advise
If you’re enjoying these quotes, make sure to read our collection of morning inspirational quotes to help you get your day started.

68. “We touch the sky, not to soar above the clouds, but to show respect to the earth beneath our feet.”― Anthony T. Hincks

69. “Let the blue of the sky and ocean take your blue away when you feel blue.”― Munia Khan

70. “The sky of the color of ashes in the east and embers in the west.”― Stephen King

Sky quotes to elevate your mind

71. “The sun always shines above the clouds.” – Paul F. Davis

72. “The sky was clear — remarkably clear — and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.” – Thomas Hardy

73. “Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

74. “It’s written in the sky.” – Anonymous

75. “In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.” – Robert Green Ingersoll

76. “That’s a misconception. The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.” – Jandy Nelson

77. “Once you have tasted the taste of sky you will forever look up.” – Leonardo Da Vinci

78. “Those playful fancies of the mighty sky.” – Albert Smith

79. “If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.” – Francois Rabelais

80. “To fly up to the sky and watch the earth is beautiful; to fly down to the earth and watch the sky is even more beautiful!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
If you’re enjoying these quotes, make sure to read our collection of Earth Day quotes that inspire an eco-friendly lifestyle.

Beautiful sky quotes

81. “The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.”― Roberto Bolaño

82. “Even behind prison walls I can see the heavy clouds and the blue sky over the horizon.” – Nelson Mandela

83. “The future is in the skies.”― Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

84. “The sky is postcard dreamy now, the clouds less full of rain, the sun a little stronger every day.”― Kathleen Glasgow

85. “Darkly, deeply, beautifully blue – the sky.”― George Byron Gordon

86. “The fading blue of yesterday’s sky is reminding of the hopeless love I told the moon about you.”― Laura Chouette

87. “My experiences remind me that it’s those black clouds that make the blue skies even more beautiful.” – Kelly Clarkson

88. “Look, up at the sky. There is a light, a beauty up there, that no shadow can touch.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

89. “The blue of the sky is one of the most special colors in the world, because the color is deep but see-through both at the same time.”― Cynthia Kadohata

90. “The sky is full of tokens which speak to the intelligent.” – Hugh Miller

Sky quotes to elevate your perspective

91. “Only weak thinkers do not love the sky.”― Katherine Rundel

92. “And in the morning when the sunrise. Look in the water, see the blue sky. As if heaven has been laid there at our feet.” – Conor Oberst

93. “At night the sky is pure astronomy.”― Nicole Krauss

94. “Stars are empty places in the sky until you make them a home for your dreams.”― Laura Chouette

95. “Did you know, I’m still in love with this blue sky until forever and ever, eternally.” – Mika

96. “Stars in the sky will always glitter if we are not blinded by the erosion of our emotions, or hampered by our lack of interest and awareness.”― Erik Pevernagie

97. “The soft blue sky did never melt Into his heart; he never felt The witchery of the soft blue sky!” – William Wordsworth

98. “The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their diary.” – Alfred Kreymborg

99. “In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion.” – Ishmael Beah

100. “I’m chasing my dreams straight to the top – into a sky that has no limits.” – Robert M. Hensel

Thought-provoking sky quotes

101. “Tonight the sky is the color of my heart, bleeding crimson for my love.”― Paige Aufhammer

102. “The night sky is a dignified black princess freckled with the stars. Get lost in her beauty to find it in your darkness.”– Curtis Tyrone Jones

103. “The sky is a canvas, so paint your own life.”― Jada Berglund

104. “Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity — distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless.” – Douglas Adams

105. “Talent never guarantees the success, its the art of success which can leads you to the sky”― Dr. Zeeshan Ahmed

106. “It’s the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world.”– Tahereh Mafi

107. “Looking through the ruby glass one cannot see the true colour of the sky.”― Lara Biyuts

108. “When someone mentions the gracefulness of the night sky, climb up on the roof and dance and say, like this?”– Rumi

109. “What, then, is this blue sky, which certainly does exist, and which veils from us the stars during the day?” – Camille Flammarion

110. “Sometimes in my tent, late at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping against the sky.”– Rick Yancey

More sky quotes and sayings

111. “You are as beautiful as sky, as soft as moon, as shiny as stars and as angry as Sun.”― M.F. Moonzajer

112. “Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers. What it changed was the way people read the night sky.” – John Berger

113. “If someone asked you what color the sky is, what would you say?”― Shey Stahl

114. “The night sky in the forest is a dilating blackness.” – Gwen Calvo

If you’re enjoying these quotes, make sure to read our collection of forest quotes about the beauty of the trees.

115. “A beautiful poem is like a beautiful sky and a beautiful sky is like a beautiful poem!”― Mehmet Murat ildan

116. “These are what flowers look like when they stare up in awe at the night sky.” – Anthony T. Hincks

117. “The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand.” – Frederic Lawrence Knowles

118. “I am a child of the Moon being raised by the Sun in a world walked by stars and a sky drawn with flowers.” – Zara Ventris

119. “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” – William Shakespeare

120. “The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout.”― Sara Sheridan

121. “Never, ever, let anyone tell you what you can and can’t do. Prove the cynics wrong. Pity them for they have no imagination. The sky’s the limit. Your sky. Your limit. Now. Let’s dance.”— Tom Hiddleston

122. “We gonna touch the sky.”— Kanye West

123. “Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, ‘you owe me.’ Look what happens with a love like that! It lights up the whole sky.”— Hafez

124. “Let’s build us a happy, little cloud that floats around the sky.”— Bob Ross

125. “All my life, I have been in love with the sky. Even when everything was falling apart around me, the sky was always there for me.”— Yoko Ono

Sky quotes marveling at the clouds

126. “You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.” – Henry Thoreau

127. “The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn’t it be?–it is the same the angels breathe.” ― Mark Twain

128. “Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it there.” ― Barbara Walters

129. “Dark clouds become heaven’s flowers when kissed by light.” ― Rabindranath Tagore

130. “There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.” ― Gilbert K. Chesterton

131. “Dark clouds become heaven’s flowers when kissed by light.” ― Rabindranath Tagore

132. “When I do not walk in the clouds I walk as though I were lost.” ― Antonio Porchia

133. “Why do I love clouds? Because you can’t save a cloud like you can save a leaf or a flower or a rock – clouds are now.” ― Terri Guillemets

134. “When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.” ― Nathaniel Hawthorne

135. “Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in shape of a camel? By th’ mass and ’tis, like a camel indeed. Methinks it is like a weasel. It is backed like a weasel. Or like a whale. Very like a whale.” ― William Shakespeare

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Sky quotes to help you notice the beauty above us

136. “The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 137. “Once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up.” — Leonardo da Vinci

138. “Because gray clouds hang heavy with misery, blue skies seem bluer.” — Richelle E. Goodrich

139. “You will see the blue sky spreading endlessly above you and smiling down.” — Aya Kito

140. “Don’t forget that birds with broken wings walking on the ground were once flying high up in the sky.” — Mehmet Murat ildan

141. “The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night.” — Haruki Murakami

142. “I like the sky. You can look at it forever and never get tired of it, and when you don’t want to look at it anymore, you stop.” — Haruki Murakami

143. “The sky was a fresh-swept blue, with only a trace of white cloud clinging to the dome of heaven like a thin streak of test paint.” — Haruki Murakami

144. “Even today the most jaded city dweller can be unexpectedly moved upon encountering a clear night sky studded with thousands of twinkling stars.” — Carl Sagan

145. “The sky is always beautiful.Even when it’s dark or rainy or cloudy, it’s still beautiful to look at… it’ll be there no matter what… and I know it’ll always be beautiful.” — Colleen Hoover

Sky Quotes To Brighten Your Day

146. “Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.” — Khalil Gibran

147. “Reach for the sky, it’s not as high as it seems. Just follow your heart go as far as your dreams.” — Brooke Allison

148. “My moods are inversely related to the clarity of the sky.” — Glenn Gould

149. “Green calm below, blue quietness above.” — John Greenleaf Whittier

150. “The sky dreams of stars, the earth dreams of  love.” — Mihai Eminescu

151. “A sky full of silent suns.” — Jean Paul

152. “Excuse me while I kiss the sky.” — Jimi Hendrix

153. “Look, up in the sky! It’s the sky!” — John Flansburgh

154. “The sky is no longer the limit.” —  Richard M. Nixon

155. “Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.” — Nhat Hanh

Which of these sky quotes was your favorite?

Everyone needs a touch of inspiration to reignite their inner fire. Whether it’s to stimulate creative ideas or to simply lose yourself in the moment of possibility for a while, you can always look up to the sky for endless inspiration.

The universe offers endless opportunities, and nothing reminds us of that better than the sky. We hope these sky quotes have inspired you to look up and stay positive.

Which of these quotes was your favorite? Do you have any other inspirational quotes about the sky to add? Feel free to share with us in the comment section below.

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