Top 100 Quotes About Moonlight
#1. There was something of the wildwood in the man who came and went illusive as moonlight moving through the branches.
Janet Lee Carey
#2. Nature is an instructed and impartial teacher, spreading no crude opinions, and flattering none; she will be neither radical nor conservative. Consider the moonlight, so civil, yet so savage!
Henry David Thoreau
#3. He could just barely make out her form in the path about ten yards ahead of him. Her hair was so fair it captured what little moonlight hung in the darkness and glowed like a halo.
Julia Quinn
#4. Kind words dispel clouds of fear like the moonlight's smile on water.
Khaled Talib
#5. Such beauty... Your face in subtle moonlight bared, glows like an angel come from Heaven...!
Hiroaki Samura
#6. The desert, where there is the communal book of moonlight. We were among the rumour of wells. In the palace of winds.
Michael Ondaatje
#7. What looks like crazy on an ordinary day, looks a lot like love when you catch it in the moonlight.
Pearl Cleage
#8. If you walk on sunlight, bathe in moonlight, breathe in a golden air and exhale a Midas' touch; mark my words, those who exist in the shadows will try to pull you into the darkness with them. The last thing that they want is for you to see the wonder of your life because they can't see theirs.
C. JoyBell C.
#9. She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.
Janet Fitch
#10. The beauty of the moonlight has no meaning for the bats and for the unfeeling minds!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#11. Ill met by moonlight,' said Deirdre.
'You could still be tied to a stake,' said Random, and she did not reply.
Roger Zelazny
#12. Beautiful like all the Shadowhunters were beautiful, like moonlight shearing off the edges of broken glass: lovely and deadly. Beautiful things, cruel things, cruel in that way that only people who absolutely believed in the rightness of their cause could be cruel.
Cassandra Clare
#13. We could refresh the look and feel of the entire desktop with Moonlight
Miguel De Icaza
#14. The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#15. Corgis are enchanted. You need only to see them in the moonlight to know this.
Tasha Tudor
#16. The moonlight lay everywhere with the natural peace that is granted to no other light.
Franz Kafka
#17. We have strayed away from God, and He is in quest of us; Like us, He is humble and is a prisoner of desire: He is hidden in every atom, and yet is a stranger to us: He is revealed in the moonlight, and in the embrace of houses.
Muhammad Iqbal
#18. Maximus," she whispered, all moonlight and strength. "I love you. Never forget that.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#19. I'll be your friend in daylight. I'll treat you as a comrade in every gas-lit ballroom. But alone, under moonlight, I'll not pretend that I want you for anything but mine.
Courtney Milan
#20. Illuminated by the gospel, we now perceive and enjoy God's truth, goodness, and beauty - whether it's in the blazing sun of the inspired Word of God, in the moonlight of creation, or in the starlight of great books.
Tony Reinke
#21. While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea.
Charles Dickens
#22. But this was like old movies, the silent theater haunted with black-and-white ghosts, silvery mouths opening to let moonlight smoke out, gestures made in silence so hushed you could hear the wind fizz the hair on your cheeks.
Ray Bradbury
#23. A hand closed over my wrist. I looked over, and there was Lilly, cast in moonlight and blue, hair snaking around her, a siren calling to me: 'come on.
Kevin Emerson
#24. Life is very tough and fragile at the same time, it never backs down or surrenders, but will break open to reveal its beauty and ugliness. As a evening primrose that blooms in the flooding moonlight, just before being trampled upon underfoot by the four-legged frost of the night.
Anthony Liccione
#25. Together they made love among the mimeographed pages of their zine and the ink stained their bodies with letters and strange hieroglyph tattoos which they examined together in the moonlight drifting through the window, laughing.
Sunil Yapa
#26. She wants to believe they're lying in moonlight, but she knows the light through the window is probably mostly electric.
Emily St. John Mandel
#27. Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon;
How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.
Rumi
#28. Wisdom is like the moonlight that quietly inspires you.
Debasish Mridha
#30. I linger on the flathouse roof, the moonlight is divine. But my heart is all aflutter like the washing on the line.
Nathalia Crane
#31. Music, and moonlight, and love and ro...mance." he sang softly to himself, tapping some computer
Tim Lebbon
#32. Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.
Emma Goldman
#33. Before me lies a voyage of a million miles, and my memory is the moonlight I will borrow to illuminate my way.
Tan Twan Eng
#34. And she sees that the moonlight is losing its orange glow. It has become buttery, and will soon turn to silver.
Stephen King
#35. The moonlight made ghosts of the bed hangings, and cast a spectral pool about my feet
Susanna Kearsley
#36. Jerek shook his head, the moonlight casting a shine on his bald scalp. "You're turning into a right old pussy and that's a fact." Kayne sighed. "Age will do that to you.
Luke Scull
#37. What else am I going to do, let the girl sit there on a railing in the moonlight thinking she's damned to go dudeless for the rest of her life?
Tim Tharp
#38. He turned, a stray slip of moonlight illuminating a sliver of his face, blue eyes glowing almost preternaturally in the darkness.
Kelley Armstrong
#39. Going out late at night and laying in the dewy field and reading a Kurt Vonnegut book by moonlight.
John Green
#41. I wanted to preserve this moment, this slice of time when the night was cool and bright with reflected moonlight and the possibility of a kiss hung between us, full of unspent promise. Every event in my life after this would be different because I would have been kissed.
Alex Flinn
#42. Saul tapped his wife's obstinate chin. "Mrs. Benedict, you certainly are. You promised to obey."
"That was thirty years ago! Before the wedding ceremony caught up with the modern age."
"Well, I for one am holding you to that. Gondola for two, in the moonlight, with champagne and roses.
Joss Stirling
#43. I now resolved to go to bed early, with a firm purpose of also rising early the next day to revisit this charming walk; for I thought to myself, I have now seen this temple of the modern world imperfectly; I have seen it only by moonlight.
Karl Philipp Moritz
#45. You might not have seen a pale, plump woman, who walked the path near the front gates, and if you had seen her, with a second, more careful glance you would have realized that she was only moonlight, mist, and shadow.
Neil Gaiman
#46. Hope is the moonlight filtering through the trees,
Hope is the silent prayer that we make in distress,
Hope is the promise that we make to ourselves,
Hope is the happiness that we visualize,
Hope is the horizon that we reach, if we try!
Balroop Singh
#47. A moon shining a broken road oversea; a lone woman naked to her waist waits at the edge of moonlight; a shadow person watching for meaning somewhere.
Keri Hulme
#48. Fighting evil by moonlight, winning love by daylight, never running from a real fight, she is the one named Sailor Moon!
Naoko Takeuchi
#49. Lazarevo drips you into my soul, dawn drop by moonlight drop from the river Kama. When you look for me, look for me there, because that's where I'll be all the days of my life.
Paullina Simons
#50. Sun reaches the people even in the darkness through the moonlight. The way can be found even when it seems there is no way!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#51. Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans. When that's where you left your heart. The moonlight on the bayou a creole tune that fills the air. I dream about magnolias in bloom and I'm wishin' I was there.
Louis Armstrong
#52. The Bible without the Holy Spirit is a sundial by moonlight.
Dwight L. Moody
#53. Care to join me, Goodfellow?"
"Oh, ice-boy. A moonlight stroll with you? Do you even have to ask?
Julie Kagawa
#54. The spring is fresh and fearless
And every leaf is new,
The world is brimmed with moonlight,
The lilac brimmed with dew.
Here in the moving shadows
I catch my breath and sing -
My heart is fresh and fearless
And over-brimmed with spring.
Sara Teasdale
#55. With your silhouette when the sunlight dims
Into your eyes where the moonlight swims,
And your match-book songs and your gypsy hymns,
Who among them would try to impress you?
-Bob Dylan, "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" (1966)
Bob Dylan
#56. The Pyramids of Tsort by moonlight!' breathed Ysabell, 'How romantic!'
MORTARED WITH THE BLOOD OF THOUSANDS OF SLAVES
Terry Pratchett
#57. In the moonlight, he looked devastatingly beautiful.
Kirsty Moseley
#58. It was a very very nice letter you wrote by the light of the stars at midnight. Always write then, for your heart requires moonlight to deliquesce it. And mine is fried in gaslight, as it is only nine o'clock and I must go to bed at eleven.
Virginia Woolf
#61. All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love or hating moonlight.
John Steinbeck
#62. The moonlight was enough. It would do.
Neil Gaiman
#63. vague as a soft copper pulse of moonlight through blossoming sea coast fog.
Ellen Hopkins
#64. Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde
#65. The moonlight had turned the gardens into a fairyland, magnificent and mysterious.
Jeanne Birdsall
#66. I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
John Muir
#67. Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.
Daniel Drew
#68. Moonlight and high wind.
Dark poplars toss, insinuate the sea.
Li-Young Lee
#69. Love is like moonlight or thunder, or rain on a tin roof in the middle of the night; it is one of those things in life that is truly worth knowing.
Sonya Hartnett
#70. I got up and walked back to my roominghouse. The moonlight was bright. My footsteps echoed in the empty street and it sounded as if somebody was following me, I looked around. I was mistaken. I was quite alone.
Charles Bukowski
#72. Actually, I do happen to resemble a hallucination. Kindly note my silhouette in the moonlight." The cat climbed into the shaft of moonlight and wanted to keep talking but was asked to be quiet. "Very well, I shall be silent," he replied, "I shall be a silent hallucination.
Mikhail Bulgakov
#73. At midnight the wind in the tress can sound like the ocean. The moonlight can make a road appear as endless as the sea.
Alice Hoffman
#74. Outside the window
Sky and earth exchange silver.
In the moonlight I forget I'm human.
Wang Xiaoni
#75. You glowed in the cool moonlight last night, when you mutinied against fate, and claimed your rank as my equal.
Charlotte Bronte
#76. He is constantly reminding me that real magic doesn't come from achieving the perfect appearance, from being Cinderella at the ball with both glass slippers and a killer hairstyle. The real magic is in the pumpkin, in the mice, in the moonlight; not beyond ordinary life, but within it.
Martha N. Beck
#78. The shadows. They never leave you. They keep dancing
around you a bit too loud in sunlight, and then keep a lingering
presence in moonlight. But always there. Our constant
companion", he remarked.
"Not true," Sheekha replied." They leave us in our darkest
hours.
Dixy Gandhi
#79. But in the moonlight they were
little more than silhouettes. A reflection of her life. A
mere shadow of what she'd expected it to be.
Lorraine Heath
#80. Your skin is transparent as distilled moonlight
John Geddes
#81. Faerie music is the wind", he says, "and their movement is the play of shadow cast by moonlight, or starlight, or no light at all. Faerie lives like a ghost beside us, but only the city remembers. But then the city never forgets anything.
Charles De Lint
#83. I could have been verse made flesh or compressed moonlight. Anything other than who I was now.
Roshani Chokshi
#86. ...the passing gleams of the moonlight between the scudding clouds crossing and passing, [are] like the gladness and sorrow of a man's life.
Bram Stoker
#87. I bleed words.
I dream in narrative.
I live in infinite worlds.
I befriend figmental characters.
I wish on stars in other galaxies.
I harvest stories from a brooding muse.
I bloom under moonlight in hushed seclusion.
I am a writer.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#89. In this uncertain space between birth and death, especially here at the end of the world in Moonlight Bay, we need hope as surely as we need food and water, love and friendship.
Dean Koontz
#90. It [moonlight] had a tentative grip on their shadows, as though the irregular shapes had been borrowed momentarily from the dark expanses left and right.
Scott Wyatt
#91. when I finally begin to drift
into sleep
your memory is the...first
and the moonlight
the last, to kiss my face.
Sanober Khan
#92. Don't blame it on the sunshine. Don't blame it on the moonlight. Blame it on the boogie.
Michael Jackson
#93. After a moment I pushed my chair back and went over to the french windows. I opened the screens and stepped out on to the porch. The night was all around, soft and quiet. The white moonlight was cold and clear, like the justice we dream of but don't find.
Raymond Chandler
#94. A grub in filth is dirty, but it changes into a cicada and sips dew in the autumn breeze. Rotting plants have no luster, but they turn into foxfire and glow in the summer moonlight. So we know that purity emerges from impurity, and light is born from darkness.
Zicheng Hong
#95. I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept.
Orlando Bloom
#96. To what shall
I liken the world?
Moonlight, reflected
In dewdrops,
Shaken from a crane's bill.
Dogen
#97. A shaft of moonlight illuminated a row of sentinel silver birch in a phosphorescent glow, appearing almost ethereal in the relative surrounding gloom. Boris had stopped again, his silhouette a stark black juxtaposition against the background of illuminated branches.
R.D. Ronald
#98. I could hear only the slight murmur of the city, faint and rhythmic as the breaking of waves on a distant shore. The statues glistened in the moonlight, and in the early morning hours the wind sometimes wafted the spicy aroma of vegetables from the near-by Halles.
Anonymous
#99. His face was smiling, his eyes glittered in the late autumn moonlight, and he emitted a flickering aura that might have triggered seizures in an impartial but sensitive child, and yet he was strangely depressed.
Ryu Murakami
#100. Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.
Allen Ginsberg
