Explanation: Although everyone’s life is unsatisfactory (living in the gutter), many people have actually accepted their fate, but there are still people who are working hard (there are still people looking up at the stars), which should be a revelation. We should never give up on the beauty of life.
A small gesture of looking up may not change everything, but it is enough to reshape daily life. So when we look up at the stars, we are actually looking for the way back to ourselves. Life is always unsatisfactory, and young people are always confused. In addition to holding on, you also need to have some time to look up at the stars and let the vast universe soothe your restless mood.
"We all live in the gutter, but some still look up at the stars" comes from "Lady Windermere's Fan" and appears in the third act of the play. Extended information
Related examples of similar expressions
1. There is not only bread and roses in life, but also the starry sky. Those who bury the stars will also bury the earth. When we look up at the stars, the stars look up at us.
——Xiong Peiyun's "Compassion and Roses"
2. Life is a relay after another. There are always people walking on the road we have walked, looking up at the stars and walking towards the ideal. Place to go. When we walk through that period, looking back, all the tangles and hardships are just a smile at the corner of our mouth. Regardless of whether you care or not, those difficulties have truly existed.
There is no distinction between high and low dreams. They exist magically in everyone's heart and never go far. If you look forward to it, you won’t be forgotten. Even if life is as low as dust, dreams must be held high, bright and shining. Like stars in the sky.
——Mu Mu "You must have an unshakable number one"
3. In this world, not everyone has the opportunity to do what they want to do, but we should Try to do the right things. Even if we cannot resist the coming of darkness, we must stand under the stars and look up at the light.
——Cheng Hao "Standing on the Edge of Two Worlds"
4. If we look at the right and wrong in the world with the same feelings of appreciating lakes and mountains, and look up at the stars If you have a broad mind to deal with all kinds of things in life, then won't trivial life have poetic comfort? Like bees brewing honey, let us turn our daily lives into landscapes.
——Fei Yong's "How to Live Without Depression: Mind Training Lessons from the Sixth Patriarch's Altar Sutra"