Longing Moon Quotes

#1. The first kind of evil is that which is caused to man by the circumstance that he is subject to genesis and destruction, or that he possesses a body.

Maimonides

#2. The sharp light of the stars and moon sliced away her misconceptions and pared down their layers until the feelings that had always existed between them lay bare.

Katherine McIntyre

#3. 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

#4. If one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, that might be the best way to die.

Gregory Maguire

#5. What a mighty nation, we will be, if we encourage one another?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. September drank in the starry sky with a longing and a tugging and a sigh. All the way up, to that enormous crescent in the black.

Catherynne M Valente

#7. Don't talk about the way you are. Talk about the way you want to be.

Joel Osteen

#8. So must every man master his own spirit of procrastination before he can expect to share in the rich treasures of Babylon.

George S. Clason

#9. We hunger for other worlds. We long to go beyond the streets we know, beyond our familiar woods and fields, and into the land of Faerie; to Middle-earth, Narnia, or Summerland; to the kingdom east of the sun and west of the moon. This longing isn't incidental.

Sarah Arthur

#10. I recognise your body in liana; your expression in the eyes of a frightened gazelle; the beauty of your face in that of the moon, your tresses in the plumage of peacocks... alas! Timid friend- no one object compares to you.

Kalidasa

#11. That haunting longing for the moon returned. Stronger, broader, flavoured with all the bone-deep desire only a nocturnal creature could feel for their sole light-giver, the lonely satellite that watched over them when the rest of the daylight world abandoned them.

L.J. Hayward

#12. Fair as the moon and joyful as the light;
Tot wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright;
Not as she is, but as she fills his dreams.

Christina Rossetti

#13. Don't let's ask for the moon! We have the stars!

Olive Higgins Prouty

#14. Let it be told to the future world that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet it.

Barack Obama

#15. How can one live without hope and longing?

Sarah Moon

#16. Till then I wasn't alive, I longed for you like the love sick moon pulls the tide

Corinne Bailey Rae

#17. Night, and the moon a blur above
I wonder where the world hides you,
and if perhaps you still love me

John Geddes

#18. The moon is the same but the observers are different.

Debasish Mridha

#19. We are merely ghost flowers under the shade of the moon
Many shades of secret sorrows blanket our eyes
We spend our lives and our souls
Searching-
Longing-
Waiting-
For a little light to shine and heal our broken halo's

Steven A. Williams

#20. In a rare moment of candor, he had once told her that being in a library was like sitting down at a table laid with all his favorite foods but not being able to eat any of them. And he hated himself for it.

Karin Slaughter

#21. I am longing for you in life and in death
As the moon is longing for night
and life is longing for breath

Debasish Mridha

#22. It more or less has the shape of a love song, but 'Crescent Moon' reflects more my longing for an ancient romantic context that includes wild animals, fire, danger of death, stellar navigation, and seasonal intuition.

Frank Black

#23. I'll say American for now. I really have no preference, though. Nationality is nothing. It's all about the girl - but she has to be curvy!

Daniel Radcliffe

#24. Bottoms are alchemists who magically transform pain into sex.

Dossie Easton

#25. Run away with me - tonight." Above them the brilliant moon beckoned, promising to light their way. Her voice sounded queer and far off, weak with longing and despair. "No runnin' off like Ma done, Simon.

Laura Frantz

#26. She would never forget how his soul was lonely as the moon they'd met under, and how, for several brief moments, she'd been able to chase the loneliness away.

Katherine McIntyre

#27. If you think of the moon as already used, it's not as difficult to take in,
because then it's just like you,
Traveled the world like you,
Seen the globe like you,
But, it's still bright.

Adrianna Stepiano

#28. I think that America certainly has racism, I think that any industrialized country does. But when you see how many million fans Barack Obama has who are not black, it would lead one to the conclusion that millions of Americans are in fact not burdened by the albatross of racism.

Henry Rollins

#29. On Earth, we are unmanned by our longing for a pastoral past that never really existed; and that, if it had existed, could never exist again ... on the Moon, there is no past to long for or dream about. There is no direction but forward.

Isaac Asimov

#30. The world yearns. This is its sure gravity: the attraction of bodies. Earth for molten star. Moon for earth. A hand for the orb of a breast. This is its movement too: the motion of desire, of a longing toward.

Alison MacLeod