Lunatic Moon Quotes

#1. Huysmans takes the old trope of moon-as-woman and replaces its romantic connotations with decadent ones: the moon here is woman as clamorous lunatic, as convulsive epileptic.

Charles Bernheimer

#2. The most important in the history of nations and individuals was once the most trivial, and vice versa. The plebeian, who is called today the 'man in the street,' can never see and understand the significance of the hidden seed of things, which in time must develop or die.

Ameen Rihani

#3. (the term 'lunatic' derives from luna, the Latin word for moon). Many writers, from antiquity onwards, maintained that the mad were directly affected by the phases of the moon, with the full moon being the cause of the greatest agitation.

Catharine Arnold

#4. Cited Riley versus California." "That's my girl! Cocounsel, I mean. Jeez, that case came down just in time! Unanimous. All nine justices. Cops need a warrant to search your cell phone.

Paul Levine

#5. The joy which is caused by truth and noble thoughts shows itself in the words by which they are expressed.

Joseph Joubert

#6. Today, I will understand that I hold the key to my freedom. I will stop participating in my oppression and victimization. I will take responsibility for myself, and let others do as they may.

Melody Beattie

#7. It happened and it was impossible and beautiful and then it ended before it even really began, leaving nothing behind but secrets and broken hearts.

Sarah Ockler

#8. Dost thou
Not feel them slip,
How cold! how cold! the moon's
Thin wavering finger-tips, along
Thy throat?

Adelaide Crapsey

#9. When I am made fun of in the press I just remember those days when I'd come home to find that the water had been turned off because my mother couldn't afford the bill. Suddenly, everything feels easier.

Beth Ditto

#10. There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.

Alexander Theroux

#11. I am a shadow's shade, a lunatic, perhaps,
Of two dark moons.

Marina Tsvetaeva

#12. I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum

George Bernard Shaw

#13. Now, whenever I need to go online, I confine myself to a tight circle: Gmail, MLB, NYTimes, Slate and maybe Facebook.

J.R. Moehringer

#14. In the end, life makes victims of us all.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#15. We Germans should know that we're good at constructing cars, and we have a lot of good qualities. But we're not the funniest.

Daniel Bruhl

#16. I eat whatever I like, but I play tennis and run nearly every day.

Toni Garrn

#17. Imagine how foolish you would feel if you didn't try only because someone said you're a lunatic.

Paul Horowitz