Top 100 Of The Moon Quotes
#1. I am alone now, truly alone, and absolutely isolated from any known life. I am it. If a count were taken, the score would be three billion plus two over on the other side of the moon, and one plus God knows what on this side.
Michael Collins
#2. It is only after we have integrated the dark side of the moon into our world view that we can begin to talk seriously of universal culture.
Shulamith Firestone
#3. In part. She sat down and pulled her necklace out of her shirt. I read about it in my mother's journal. The Witches believe we are all parts of a whole. Like the phases of the moon. Together, we complete the circle and bring balance.
Amber Argyle
#4. Upon consideration of the central question of the moon's toughness there can be little doubt. It is hella tough.
Plato
#5. Do you ever get the urge to get in your car and keep driving?" I ask, focused on the water shimmering in the light of the moon.
"How'd you know when to stop?" Cole challenged, sitting next to me so our arms barely touched.
"I guess when you find something worth stopping for.
Rebecca Donovan
#6. I worked in your orchards of peaches and prunes. I slept on the ground in the light of the moon. On the edge of the city you'll see us and then, we come with the dust and we go with the wind.
Woody Guthrie
#7. - What's in the water?
- Flowers and the part of the moon that isn't in the sky tonight.
Patrick Rothfuss
#8. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then we'll see the rising of the moon.
Bobby Sands
#9. Oh, with you, I could conquer the world - oh, with you I could catch hold of the moon like a little silver sixpence.
Katherine Mansfield
#10. Oh, 'impressed' is not the right word! Treading the soil of the moon gives one, I imagine (or rather my projected self imagines), the most remarkable romantic thrill ever experienced in the history of discovery.
Vladimir Nabokov
#11. The First, then, should be compared to light, the next [Spirit or Intellect] to the sun, and the third [soul] to the celestial body of the moon, which gets its light from the sun. (V-6-4)
Plotinus
#12. Tape the sound of the moon fading at dawn. Give it to your mother to listen to when she's in sorrow.
Yoko Ono
#13. All the Chinese have to do is fly around the Moon and back, and they'll appear to have won the return to the Moon with humans. They could put one person on the surface of the Moon for one day and he'd be a national hero.
Buzz Aldrin
#14. A warm body sighed in the darkness inside the little bright object balanced elegantly in the orbit of the moon.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#15. Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of the moon.
Tom Robbins
#16. There may come a time at last that I
Shall take the hidden paths that run
East of the moon west of the sun.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#17. There is a side of the Moon which we never see, but that hidden half is as potent a factor in causing the ebb and flow of the Earth's tide as the part of the Moon which is visible.
Max Heindel
#18. At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#19. That is a question you have to ask the Old Man of the Moon.
Grace Lin
#20. The floss-silk manes tossed up like the crest of a breaking wave ... Light ran and glittered on them. They were obedient ... you would have sworn ... as the white horses of the wave crests are to pull of the moon.
Mary Stewart
#21. The undisturbed mind is like the calm body water reflecting the brilliance of the moon. Empty the mind and you will realize the undisturbed mind.
Yagyu Jubei Mitsuyoshi
#22. I am Crone, eldest of the Moon's Great Ravens, whose eyes have looked upon a hundred thousand years of human folly. Hence my tattered coat and broken beak as evidence of your indiscriminate destruction. I am but a winged witness of your eternal madness.
Steven Erikson
#23. Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate
And though I oft have passed them by
A day will come at last when I
Shall take the hidden paths that run
West of the Moon, East of the Sun.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#24. ...he did not dare to play forbidden games with a woman who had proven too many times that she knew the dark side of the moon
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#25. Is there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon?
Edward Abbey
#26. Night was her time. The Keeper. Bond-mate of the cat. Protector of the night. Daughter of the moon.
Kelley Armstrong
#27. And pluck till time and times are done The silver apples of the moon, the golden apples of the sun.
W.B.Yeats
#28. A good swimming pool could do that - make the rest of the world seem impossibly insignificant, as far away as the surface of the moon.
Emma Straub
#29. We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is also a dark half, which is unknown to us. We all come down to dinner, but each has a room to himself.
Walter Bagehot
#30. The first man-made satellite to orbit the earth was named Sputnik. The first living creature in space was Laika. The first rocket to the Moon carried a red flag. The first photograph of the far side of the Moon was made with a Soviet camera. If a man orbits the earth this year his name will be Ivan.
John F. Kennedy
#31. Clouds are like boogers hanging on the nostrils of the moon.
Robin Williams
#32. I was a terrible Sugar Babies addict, so I had more cavities than the surface of the moon.
Rick Reilly
#33. I would say anybody who's willing to listen to Dark Side of the Moon and watch The Wizard of Oz is already a very sensitive, creative person.
Wayne Coyne
#34. ...she grasped the terrible truth that love can never be compelled, from man, from sprite, from beast; that one who loves, however she longs for requital, however long she waits, may receive in return the reverse of what she gives, the dark side of the moon.
Thomas Burnett Swann
#35. And it really was kind of the moon to shine on me, too, and out of modesty I was about to place myself under the arch of the tower bridge when it occurred to me that the moon, of course, shone on everything. So I happily spread out my arms in order fully to enjoy the moon.
Franz Kafka
#36. The Dark Side of the Moon has flash - the true flash that comes from the excellence of a superb performance.
Alan Parsons
#38. The Weezer 'Blue' Album is a classic. I think My Morning Jacket's 'Circuital' is a great album to have. Any Led Zeppelin album. Pink Floyd 'The Dark Side Of The Moon' or 'Animals.' I always catch myself at concerts being like, 'Oh, I just stared at the drummer for 15 straight minutes.' I study them.
Christopher Mintz-Plasse
#40. Forgive me also that I didn't fight like Lord Byron for the happiness of captive peoples that I watched only risings of the moon and museums
Zbigniew Herbert
#41. 'Dark Side of the Moon' was one of my father's favorite records, which I obviously didn't understand when I was young. To be honest, I don't really have too many memories of hearing it, but I definitely have memories of the cover.
Apparat
#42. It was as hot as ever, even the turn of the moon bringing no relief, and the cries of cicadas fell like showers around me.
Lian Hearn
#43. Mary's light is like that of the moon, totally reflected from the sun, the Son of God.
Peter Kreeft
#44. Note to academics: Aristarchus' track record of astronomical research would probably have guaranteed him tenure somewhere, if tenure had been invented. His stack of reprints included measuring the distances of the Moon and Sun.
Seth Shostak
#45. Small samples in the centrifuge will spin at varying rates to create synthetic gravity, like the gravity of Mars or the gravity of the moon, and measure how the specimens respond within the centrifuge.
John L. Phillips
#46. Desolation would not be the proper word to describe his feelings now; it was more the sense of emptiness he imagined he might feel standing all alone on the surface of the moon.
Shusaku Endo
#47. A map of the moon ... should be in every geological lecture room; for no where can we have a more complete or more magnificent illustration of volcanic operations. Our sublimest volcanoes would rank among the smaller lunar eminences; and our Etnas are but spitting furnaces.
James Dwight Dana
#48. She could hear again the ripple of water, the flapping sail. She could see the glint of the moon upon the bay, and could feel the soft, gusty beating of the hot south wind. A subtle current of desire passed through her body, weakening her hold upon the brushes and making her eyes burn.
Kate Chopin
#49. What makes humanity beautiful is our free will, our individuality, our endless striving in spite of our imperfection.
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Dean Koontz
#50. You live by the light of the moon, and I live by desire.
Stevie Nicks
#51. If the earth should cease to attract its waters to itself all the waters of the sea would be raised and would flow to the body of the moon.
Johannes Kepler
#52. He was the heat of a fire and the sweetness of the moon I'd only just met.
Ann Aguirre
#53. In the pale light of the Moon I play the game of you. Whoever I am. Whoever you are. All sense of where I am, of who I am and where I'm going, has been swallowed by the dark. And I walk through the stars and sky ... a trinity of dreams beneath the moon.
Neil Gaiman
#54. They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.
Bobby Sands
#55. 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
#56. It was queer how it all hurt you--how the odor of the night, the silver sheen of the moon, the moist feeling of the dew, the whispering of the night breeze, how somewhere down in your throat it hurt you.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#57. Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
Jean Paul
#58. If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it.
Laurie Anderson
#60. People say the magic has gone out of the moon now that someone's stood on it. I don't think so. It would take more than a man's foot to steal the moon.
Jeanette Winterson
#61. Lonely trees are not lonely; they have their eternal companies: Songs of the birds; shadows of the clouds; lights of the Moon; whispers of the winds ... Lonely trees are not lonely!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#62. The piece of equipment I'm most found off is my telescope. The other night I had a superb view of the moon.
Arthur C. Clarke
#63. My thesis is that the language of poetic myth anciently current in the Mediterranean and Northern Europe was a magical language bound up with popular religious ceremonies in honour of the Moon-goddess, or Muse,
Robert Graves
#64. It is clear that the nation that assumes stewardship of the Moon now will inherit stewardship of the galaxy in the coming millennium. I think the USA is ready for that challenge!
Wilson Greatbatch
#65. Realization doesn't destroy the individual any more than the reflection of the moon breaks a drop of water. A drop of water can reflect the whole sky.
Dogen
#66. She had a new secret, the strenght of the moon, looking at her
Susan Engberg
#67. We mustn't keep meeting like this. Communications between the people of the moon and earth is forbidden ... it is the way of the gods ... we mustn't fall in love ... but its already too late ...
Naoko Takeuchi
#68. The antimony on their features was set on silvery fire by the intensity of the moon. And their bodies, solid and quivering and half-naked, were like ancient memories of a mystical time without boundaries when it was possible to enter the consciousness of a cornseed and foretell the harvest to come.
Ben Okri
#69. The night surrounds, breathes across her skin. They're lost in the shadows of the moon.
Laura Kreitzer
#70. No more to wait the twilight of the moon in this sequestered vale of star and spire, for one eternal morning of desire passes to time and earthy afternoon.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#71. I pictured a rainbow
You held it in your hands
I had flashes
But you saw the plan
I wandered out in the world for years
While you just stayed in your room
I saw the crescent
You saw the whole of the moon
Mike Scott
#72. At the end of every short story the reader should feel as if a cloud has been lifted from the face of the moon.
Michael Chabon
#73. When twenty years of the Moon's reign have passed another will take up his reign for seven thousand years. When the exhausted Sun takes up his cycle then my prophecy and threats will be accomplished.
Nostradamus
#74. I know that light is not for me, save that of the moon over the rock tombs of Neb, nor any gaiety save the unnamed feasts of Nitokris beneath the Great Pyramid; yet in my new wildness and freedom I almost welcome the bitterness of alienage.
H.P. Lovecraft
#75. But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the Moon.
John Milton
#76. The crickets still sing in October. And lilly, she's trying to bloom. Tho she's resting her head on the shoulder of death, she still shines by the light of the moon.
Kevin Dalton
#77. The world was different before the war,' he said. 'We didn't have this instantaneous access to information that your generation has. The world was a bigger, more mysterious place - we still dreamed of secret caves in the Mountains of the Moon, and tiger hunting in the Punjab.
Ben Aaronovitch
#78. From the distance of the moon, Earth was four times the size of a full moon seen from Earth. It was a brilliant jewel in the black velvet sky.
Buzz Aldrin
#80. There were times when the light of the moon had gone out and she felt a great loneliness. It wasn't for herself. It was for what had happened to the grasses of their land, their waters, not just the massacre there, the slavery, but the killing of the ocean.
Linda Hogan
#81. Peppercorn is black and so is the beauty mark of the moon-faces -both rend the heart, yet between them lie enormous spaces
Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani
#82. To see things in black and white is to see the basics, and I would recommend to any designer of gardens that he go out and look at his work by the light of the moon.
Eleanor Perenyi
#83. When I admire the wonder of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in worship of the Creator.
Robin S. Sharma
#84. Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!
Anonymous
#85. The spectacle of the sky overwhelms me. I'm overwhelmed when I see, in an immense sky, the crescent of the moon or the sun.
Joan Miro
#87. I would sooner be prime minister of the moon than run another marathon. I've been really lucky. I didn't have any toenails fall off or anything disgusting like that. I still have all three nipples.
Ryan Reynolds
#88. To accomplish his object Ahab must use tools; and of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are most apt to get out of order.
Herman Melville
#89. It's a very typical UFO sighting. Carter said it changed color and, in the physical report, described it as being about the size of the moon. And he saw it with about twenty-five other people.
Dwight Schultz
#90. Egyptians used carved sky boats as symbols of the Moon and the Babylonians called the Moon the Boat of Light.
Rachel Patterson
#91. It was a palace, made entirely of gold, sitting on an island of silver snow at the very top of the world. East of the sun, and west of the moon.
Jessica Day George
#92. The surface of the Moon is not smooth, uniform, and precisely spherical as a great number of philosophers believe it to be, but is uneven, rough, and full of cavities and prominences, being not unlike the face of the Earth, relieved by chains of mountains and deep valleys.
Galileo Galilei
#93. Time piles up like brush. You burn it in the fall and all you remember are the glowing cinders. I got ash heaps everywhere I look. -Old of the Moon
Chris Offutt
#94. It feels strange to me to be living in a box, hiding from the steadying influence of the moon; wearing the hide of a cow, which is supposed to be dyed to match God-knows-what, on my feet; making promises over the telephone about things I will do at a precise hour next year.
Barbara Kingsolver
#95. There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
Joseph Conrad
#96. It looked like a piano sounds shortly after being dropped down a well. It tasted yellow, and felt Paisley. It smelled like a total eclipse of the moon. Of course, nearer to the tower it got really weird.
Terry Pratchett
#97. The elegance of the moon teaches us to be elegant and kind.
Debasish Mridha
#98. If the pull of the moon can disturb the ocean, why can't the pull of planets cause a disturbance in the mind of creatures like us.
Girdhar Joshi
#99. I live with regrets - the bittersweet loss of innocence - the red track of the moon upon the lake - the inability to return and do it again ...
John Geddes
#100. (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
