Quotes about moon
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“We both wondered whether these contradictions that one can't avoid if one begins to think of time and space may not really be proofs that the whole of life is a dream, and the moon and stars bits of nightmare.”

Arthur Machen (1863–1947) Welsh author and mystic

Source: The Terror

Life, Dreams, Star, Thinking

“As impossible, in fact, as keeping the moon… So I looked down the line at all my friends, knowing I would always remember this. And then I turned my gaze back up to the sky, and put my faith in that moon and its return.”

Sarah Dessen book Keeping the Moon

Source: Keeping the Moon

Faith

“The night is full of mystery. Even when the moon is brightest, secrets hide everywhere. Then the sun rises and its rays cast so many shadows that the day creates more illusion than all the veiled truth of the night.”

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes book Demon in My View

Source: Demon in My View

Truth, Secret, Sun, Night

“and if we can change
things that have
already happened

if those planes can fly in
uneasy formation

if that splinter moon
can blow away the shadows

then anything,
anything at all.”

Jaclyn Moriarty (1968) Australian writer

Source: The Ghosts of Ashbury High

Change, Flying

“Oh my God!" said one of the Ambers. "Is this not the worst trip ever? Did you see the snow?"
She was a sharp one, this Amber. What would she notice next? The train? The moon? The hilarious vagaries of human existence? Her own head?”

Maureen Johnson book Let It Snow

Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

God, Training

“Don't be afraid to fall in love again. Open your heart and follow where it leads you… and remember, shoot for the moon.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: P.S. I Love You

Love, Heart

“Maybe he was a good a good whitecoat—like Jeb. And maybe the moon was made of cream cheese.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Angel Experiment

“Let’s see, today is Thor’s Day the sixteenth.” “You mean Thursday?” “That’s what I said. The island will rise on the full moon six days from now, on the twenty-second, which is Woden’s Day.” “Wednesday?” I asked. “That’s what I said.”

Rick Riordan book The Sword of Summer

Source: The Sword of Summer

“They dined on mince, and slices of quince,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon,
The moon,
They danced by the light of the moon.”

Edward Lear The Owl and the Pussycat

St. 3.
Source: The Owl and the Pussycat (1871)

Light, Dance

“He who jumps for the moon and gets it not leaps higher than he who stoops for a penny in the mud.”

Howard Pyle book The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Source: The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

“Go slowly, my lovely moon, go slowly.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

Love

“No matter where it is in the sky… No matter where you are in the world… the moon is never bigger than your thumb. -John”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

World

“The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep.”

Alice Hoffman book Practical Magic

Source: Practical Magic

Sun

“Shoot for the moon, because even if you miss you miss, you'll land in the stars.”

Les Brown (1945) American politician

Variant: Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

Star

“Watching the moon at midnight, solitary, mid-sky, I knew myself completely, no part left out.”

Izumi Shikibu (976–1033) Japanese poet

Parting

“The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

Star, Night

“We’re on the moon,” Sadie murmured.
“El Paso, Texas,” Bast corrected.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

“Calligraphy of geese
against the sky-
the moon seals it.”

Yosa Buson (1716–1783) poet from Japan

“I feel a little like the moon who took possession of you for a moment and then returned your soul to you. You should not love me. One ought not to love the moon. If you come too near me, I will hurt you.”

Anaïs Nin book Delta of Venus

Source: Delta of Venus

Love, Feeling, Soul, Hurt

“East of the sun and west of the moon.”

Edith Pattou book East

Source: East

Sun

“Oh, Blimey O'Riley's pantyhose…. What is the point of Shakespeare? I know he is a genius and so on, but he does rave on. 'What light doth through yonder window break?' It's the bloody moon, for God sake, Will, get a grip!”

Louise Rennison (1951–2016) British writer

Variant: Oh Blimey O‘Reilly's pantyhose... what is the point of Shakespeare? I know he is a genius and so on, but he does rave on. It's the bloody moon, for God's sake, Will, get a grip!!
Source: Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants

God, Light

“Your eyes have the colour of the moon”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

Source: 100 Love Sonnets

“Cheap little rhymes
A cheap little tune
Are sometimes as dangerous
As a sliver of the moon.”

Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist

“Blooming under a cold moon, we are like fireworks…
Rising, shining, and finally scattering and fading.
So until that moment comes when we vanish like fireworks…
Lets us sparkle brightly,
Always…”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

“Not the bee upon the blossom,
In the pride o' sunny noon;
Not the little sporting fairy,
All beneath the simmer moon;
Not the poet, in the moment
Fancy lightens in his e'e,
Kens the pleasure, feels the rapture,
That thy presence gi'es to me.”

Robert Burns (1759–1796) Scottish poet and lyricist

Pleasure, Feeling, Sport, Bee

“See the moon? It hates us.”

Donald Barthelme (1931–1989) American writer, editor, and professor

Hate

“He's stuck at 3:14 a. m. with only the moon to talk to.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

Source: It Chooses You

“Blot out the moon,
Pull down the stars.
Love in the dark, for we're for the dark
So soon, so soon.”

Jean Rhys book Wide Sargasso Sea

Source: Wide Sargasso Sea

Love, Star

“We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

“The magic of autumn has seized the countryside; now that the sun isn't ripening anything it shines for the sake of the golden age; for the sake of Eden; to please the moon for all I know.”

Elizabeth Coatsworth (1893–1986) American writer

Source: Personal Geography: Almost an Autobiography

Age, Autumn, Sun

“We must strive to be like the moon”

Ishmael Beah book A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Source: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

“I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.”

Pat Conroy (1945–2016) American novelist

Future

“What do you do there, moon, in the sky? Tell me what you do, silent moon. When evening comes you rise and go contemplating wastelands; then you set.”

Giacomo Leopardi (1798–1837) Italian poet, philosopher and writer

“The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert.
Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last.
Even the sun goes down.”

Guy Gavriel Kay book The Lions of Al-Rassan

Source: The Lions of Al-Rassan

Men, Fate, Sun

“You are my sun,
my moon, and
all my stars.”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

Variant: Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.

Star, Sun, Cute, Romantic

“It enclosed us in its laceries as we watched the moon spill across the Atlantic like wine from an overturned glass. With the light all around us, we felt secret in that moon-infused water like pearls forming in the soft tissues of oysters.”

Pat Conroy book Beach Music

Source: Beach Music

Secret, Light, Water, Wine

“I walked over and looked closer at the statue of the goddess. She was wearing a headdress with a skull and a cobra and a crescent moon. Maybe this is what peace of mind was all about: having a poisonous snake on your head and smiling anyway.”

Wally Lamb book I Know This Much Is True

Source: I Know This Much Is True

Peace, Smile

“She represents love, beauty, purity, the ideal female and the moon… and she's the mystère of jealousy, vengeance and discord, AND, on the other hand, of love, perpetual help, goodwill, health, beauty and fortune.”

Zadie Smith On Beauty

Source: On Beauty

Love, Health, Jealousy, Beauty

“The lions sing and the hills take flight.
The moon by day, and the sun by night.
Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool.
Let the Lord of Chaos rule.”

Robert Jordan Lord of Chaos

Chant from a children’s game heard in Great Arvalon, the Fourth Age
(15 October 1994)
Source: Lord of Chaos

Fools, Singing, Sun, Night

“They don't know that I'm already asking for the moon.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Sun, Heart

“The sea is calm tonight.
The tide is full, the moon lies fair
Upon the straits;—on the French coast the light
Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,
Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay. Come to the window, sweet is the night-air!”

Matthew Arnold Dover Beach

St. 1
Dover Beach (1867)
Source: Dover Beach and Other Poems

Light, Sea, Night

“What I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on the edge of her crib and to hang her name up in the stars.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Star, Baby, For Father

“I had an inheritance from my father,
It was the moon and the sun.
And though I roam all over the world,
The spending of it’s never done.”

Ernest Hemingway book For Whom the Bell Tolls

Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls

World, Sun

“Nobody quite knew what to make of the moon any more.”

Tom Robbins book Still Life with Woodpecker

Source: Still Life with Woodpecker

“He could tell her he loved her. He ached to shout it out loud for the gods and everyone to hear. Little good it would do. Better to trust in the moon's promises than in the word of the Thief of Eddis. He was famous in three countries for his lies.”

Megan Whalen Turner The Queen of Attolia

Source: The Queen of Attolia

Love, God, Country

“I love you more than there are fishes in the sea and higher than the moon”

Nicholas Sparks book At First Sight

Variant: I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.
Source: At First Sight

Love, Fish, Sea

“Man’s wants remain unsatisfied till death.
Then, when his soul is naked, is he one
With the man in the wind, and the west moon,
With the harmonious thunder of the sun”

Dylan Thomas (1914–1953) Welsh poet and writer

Death, Soul, Sun

“Woman wants monogamy;
Man delights in novelty.
Love is woman's moon and sun;
Man has other forms of fun.
Woman lives but in her lord;
Count to ten, and man is bored.
With this the gist and sum of it,
What earthly good can come of it?”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

Love, Sun

“He was pointing at the moon, but I was looking at his hand.”

Richard Siken (1967) American poet

“That I could clamber to the frozen moon. And draw the ladder after me.”

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher

Drawing

“I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.”

Henry David Thoreau book Walden ou la vie dans les bois

Source: Walden

World, Star, Sun

“She is . . . the moon in my night sky. And that is the beginning, middle, and end of it. There is no more to be told than that, and never shall I speak of her again.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: The Shadows

Night

“Is that a lion with horns and a pitchfork?"
"Yep."
"Is he carrying the moon on his pitchfork?"
"Nope it's a pie.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Bleeds

“Where we live in the world
is never one place. Our hearts,
those dogged mirrors, keep flashing us
moons before we are ready for them.”

Naomi Shihab Nye (1952) American writer

Source: 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East

World, Dogs, Heart

“Witch, do this for me,
Find me a moon
made of longing.
Then cut it sliver thin,
and having cut it,
hang it high
above my beloved's house,
so that she may look up
tonight
and see it,
and seeing it, sigh for me
as I sigh for her,
moon or no moon.”

Clive Barker (1952) author, film director and visual artist

Housing

“It's a full moon here tonight, which makes me think of you. Because, I know that no matter what I am doing or where I am, this moon will always be the same size as yours, half a world away.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

World, Thinking

“He didn’t give me flowers or candy. He gave me the moon and the stars. Infinity

-Belly Conklin”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: We'll Always Have Summer

Star, Flowers

“I hate the moon. I hate tides and earthquakes and volcanoes. I hate a world where things that have absolutely nothing to do with me can destroy my life and the lives of people I love.”

Susan Beth Pfeffer book Life As We Knew It

Source: Life As We Knew It

Love, Life, Hate, People

“Winter garden,
the moon thinned to a thread,
insects singing.”

Bashō Matsuo (1644–1694) Japanese poet

Winter, Singing

“Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon.”

Mary Karr (1955) American writer

Source: Lit

Dead

“All the light of the day, fleeing the earth, seemed for one brief moment to take refuge in the sky; pink clouds spiralled round the full moon that was as green as pistachio sorbet and as clear as glass; it was reflected in the lake.”

Irène Némirovsky (1903–1942) French novelist who died at the age of 39 in Auschwitz

Source: Suite Française

Light

“I never really thought about how when I look at the moon, it's the same moon as Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and George Washington and Cleopatra looked at.”

Susan Beth Pfeffer book Life As We Knew It

Source: Life As We Knew It

“It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

“Just like moons and suns,
With certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Hope, Spring, Sun

“The moon is a stone and the sky is full of deadly hardware, but oh God, how beautiful anyway.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

God, Beauty

“It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea

Source: The Old Man and the Sea

Star, Sun, Sea

“Just go on dancing with me like this forever and I'll never tire. We'll scrape our shoe on the stars and hang upside down from the moon.”

Stephen King book The Long Walk

Source: The Long Walk

Shoe, Star, Dance

“Many of us have convinced ourselves that compromise is necessary to achieve our goals, that all of our goals are not attainable so we should eliminate the extraneous, prioritize our desires, and accept less than the moon.”

Garth Stein The Art of Racing in the Rain

Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain

“It is not so much light that falls
over the world
extended by your body
its suffocating snow,
as brightness, pouring itself out of you,
as if you were
burning inside.

Under your skin the moon is alive.”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

Source: oda a la bella desnuda y otros escritos de amor

World, Light

“There's no point in saving the world if it means losing the moon.”

Tom Robbins book Still Life with Woodpecker

Source: Still Life with Woodpecker

World

“Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I've got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night.”

Irving Berlin (1888–1989) American composer

Sun, Night

“The Suicide, as she is falling,
Illuminated by the moon,
Regrets her act, and finds appalling
The thought she will be dead so soon.”

Edward Gorey (1925–2000) American writer, artist, and illustrator

Suicide, Dead

“Who wants that? I'd rather choose to fall in love and be hurt. Sometimes I can't even sleep because I love someone too much. And there's always sadness in our lives. It's that sad feeling that keeps us going. - Usagi/Sailor Moon”

Naoko Takeuchi (1967) Japanese manga artist

Source: Sailor Moon, Vol. 1

Love, Sadness, Feeling, Sleep

“No, nothing can change my world
--Ichigo Kurosaki, Black Moon Rising”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

World, Change

“The three cards were the Moon, the Empress, and the Ace of Cups. Ambrose leaned over my shoulder to peer at the cards. "Ooh,' he said. "Very interesting."
Rhonda glanced up at him. "Hush. You don't know what you're talking about.”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

“Poetry, the best of it, is lunar and is concerned with the essential insanities. Journalism is solar (there are numerous newspapers named The Sun, none called The Moon) and is devoted to the inessential.”

Tom Robbins book Still Life with Woodpecker

Source: Still Life with Woodpecker

Sun

“What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book A Study in Scarlet

Source: A Study in Scarlet

Sun

“Do you understand now why books are hated and feared? Because they reveal the pores on the face of life. The comfortable people want only the faces of the full moon, wax, faces without pores, hairless, expressionless.”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

Life, Hate, People, Books

“I am Sailor Moon, champion of justice! On behalf of the moon, I will right wrongs and triumph over evil, and that means you! - sailor moon”

Naoko Takeuchi (1967) Japanese manga artist

Justice, Evil

“I wished that the chains would break and the wind would sweep me up, up, up into the sky, beyond the clouds, beyond the sun and the moon, to some marvelous kingdom where no one ever changed and friends were friends for life.”

Mary Downing Hahn (1937) American children's writer

Source: Daphne's Book

Life, Change, Sun

“The stars up close to the moon were pale; they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon”

Ken Kesey book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Star, Light

“The moon shows the truth of things.”

Joseph Delaney (1945) British writer

Source: Curse of the Bane

Truth

“The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing.”

John Fowles (1926–2005) British writer

Dead

“Today my winged horse is coming and I am carrying you off to the moon and on the moon we will eat rose petals.”

Shirley Jackson book We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Source: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Horse

“So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.”

Zora Neale Hurston book Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

“When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

“When you feel homesick,’ he said, ‘just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go.”

Donna Tartt book The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

Feeling

“We didn’t know what was ahead of us then. We were just two teenagers, looking up at the sky on a cold February night. So no, he didn’t give me flowers or candy. He gave me the moon and the stars. Infinity.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Variant: We were just two teenagers, looking up at the sky on a cold February night. So no, he didn’t give me flowers or candy. He gave me the moon and the stars. Infinity.
Source: We'll Always Have Summer

Star, Flowers, Night