Quotes About Moonlight

#1. At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen,
You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun.
And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten,
And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done.

Rudyard Kipling

#2. At night the Garden was a place of shadows and moonlight, where you could more clearly hear all the illusions that went into making it what it was.

Dot Hutchison

#3. Here, also, the future was cried aloud by the wind through the rocks, so that all those who heard would shiver, and then the liquid spring song of the thrush would make all the beauty of moonlight and sunlight blend together, making it true, so true, that happiness must come again

Elyne Mitchell

#4. Leaf was staring down into shadow, and Thunder followed his gaze. The land dropped away into a small ravine. Moonlight pooled at the bottom, lighting a clearing ringed by bracken and trees.

Erin Hunter

#5. There's a moon now, almost full. Good luck for owls; bad luck for rabbits, who often choose to cavort riskily but sexily in the moonlight, their brains buzzing with pheromones.

Margaret Atwood

#6. In the distance, up the street, too far away for Sam to want to chase after, a couple of kids, maybe ten years old, maybe not even that. Barely visible in the false moonlight. Just outlines. The kids passing a bottle back and forth, taking swigs, staggering.

Michael Grant

#7. Even the wolf gets anxious, but the wolf keeps moving and doing, all while being washed in the magic of moonlight

Jason E. Hodges

#8. If there is moonlight outside, don't stay inside! If there is candle inside, don't stay outside! Moments of romanticism are too valuable to be missed!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. There's something about moonlight on the body and things happening sort of free and open. Outdoors is something I'm totally game and down for.

Cameron Diaz

#10. I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Henry David Thoreau

#11. The wastes of snow on the hill were ghostly in the moonlight. The stars were piercingly bright.

Maud Hart Lovelace

#12. I want to take you upstairs, and turn off the lights, and watch your skin turn pink as I move inside you. When I've kissed you and your skin's marked by my mouth, you look like a rose in the moonlight. It gets darker when I'm moving inside you, that blood flush.

Anne Calhoun

#13. By the moonlight he watched his wife for the last time. His hand sought the adjacent flesh and sorrow paralleled desire in the immense complexity of love.

Carson McCullers

#14. It's funny, there aren't too many musicians that also moonlight as studio engineers. There's a few - the really brilliant ones.

Dave Grohl

#15. Sometimes,
I doubt the courage
My bones are made of

And then,
A breath finds her way in
And her way out

The half-way-almost-full moon
Smiles down;

My heart sighs
And quietly whispers:
I remember.

Bryonie Wise

#16. I collapsed next to him on the bed and he slowly peeled off the rest of my wardrobe. We made love by moonlight.

Janice Macleod

#17. When words, half love, all tenderness,
Were hourly heard, as hourly spoken,
When the long, sunny days of bliss
Only by moonlight nights were broken.

The Bronte Sisters

#18. The moonlight will guide me to the world of freedom.

Peach-Pit

#19. We are on a stroll, hand in hand, in a garden, in the moonlight and the sole purpose of such a venture is to come together in love.

Anuradha Bhattacharyya

#20. Nevertheless, the members of the Board of Trade were so delighted with the lamps that they decided to change Austin's official nickname from "City of the Violet Crown" (in honor of Austin's stunning sunsets) to "The City of Eternal Moonlight.

Skip Hollandsworth

#21. I love to close my eyes a moment and think of the land outside, white under the mingled snow and moonlight--the heaps of stones by the roadside white--snow in the furrows. Mon Dieu! How quiet and how patient!

Katherine Mansfield

#22. I often want to drink a cup of moonlight so that I may calm my heart and soothe my mind.

Debasish Mridha

#23. She doesn't know where she is going. She doesn't know when the next demons will appear.
But she will keep on walking.
She will follow the moon.

Deborah Ellis

#24. There is a moonlight note in the Moonlight Sonata; there is a thunder note in an angry sky.

Dejan Stojanovic

#25. Cam stepped into the clearing. His eyes were rimmed with a thick, shimmering gold shadow, and it shone on his face in the moonlight, making him look like a wildcat.

Lauren Kate

#26. We feel cold, but we don't mind it, because we will not come to harm. And if we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn't feel other things, like the bright tingle of the stars, or the music of the aurora, or best of all the silky feeling of moonlight on our skin. It's worth being cold for that.

Philip Pullman

#27. All stories must end so, with the next tale winking out of the corners of the last pages, promising more, promising moonlight and dancing and revels, if only you will come back when spring comes again.

Catherynne M Valente

#28. Hallelujah"
"Your faith was strong but you needed proof.
You saw her bathing on the roof.
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you.
She tied you to a kitchen chair,
she broke your throne, and she cut your hair.
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah ...

Leonard Cohen

#29. You are sunshine and moonlight, laughter and joy, a life lived entirely without fear. You heard the call of a dream and made it a reality. You are everything I believed I was fighting for all those years.

Elaine Levine

#30. The snow wears moonlight like perfume.

Emily Murdoch

#31. If I told you your bare ass looks fantastic in the moonlight, would you hold that against me?

Pamela Clare

#32. He eyed her bed in the moonlight streaming in her window and gave serious thought to simply dozing off right there. He had the sense she wasn't going to be reasonable about what had just happened, and the longer he let her stew and fret, the more unreasonable she'd be. ***

Grace Burrowes

#33. Bright beautiful moon,
Silvery silky moonlight
touching my heart
With love and joy.

Debasish Mridha

#34. How did you find me? The heartstone? he says.
I look into his eyes. His silver moonlight eyes. The still calmwater heart of him.
I don't need no stone to find you. I'd find you anywhere, I says.

Moira Young

#35. The wind languished. The floral curtain ceased flapping. The moonlight streamed through, lighting up her face. It was a young, animated face. At that moment, it touched a string, a peg, deep inside him.

Qiu Xiaolong

#36. The moonlight builds its cold chapel again out of piecemeal darkness.

Jane Hirshfield

#37. He could see the truck in the moonlight at the top of the rise. He looked off to one side of it to see it the better. There was someone standing beside it. Then they were gone. There is no description of a fool, he said, that you fail to satisfy. Now you're goin to die.

Cormac McCarthy

#38. For a moment this good time would never end
You and me
Just wasting time
I was kissing you
You were kissing me love
From good day into a moonlight

Dave Matthews

#39. Moonlight wreaks havoc on an otherwise sane thinking mind. It makes you think that the impossible is possible, and your dreams, reality.

Jessiqua Wittman

#40. Virgil is serene and lovely like a marble Apollo in the moonlight; Homer is a beautiful, animated youth in the full sunlight with the wind in his hair.

Helen Keller

#41. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.

Allen Ginsberg

#42. In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is
as the light called human life is
at its coming and its going.

Charles Dickens

#43. I see you better in music, I hear you better in wind, I feel you more in a flooding moonlight, that understands nothing, but darkness and silence.

Anthony Liccione

#44. Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.

Laurie Anderson

#45. Moonlight making crosses on your body, and me putting my mouth on every one.

Richard Siken

#46. Lilith opened the shutters and allowed herself to bathe in the bright moonlight, as it shone across the Highland Glen.

Alan Kinross

#47. One series of notes, high and delicate, sang of a sweet moonlight kiss gone sour; another line of music rippled with regret over opportunities forever lost.

Sharon M. Draper

#48. Moonlight slipped in through the lace curtains, slicing everything with its sliver cracks. That's how I felt right now - cold and cracked and hollow and empty.

Jennifer Estep

#49. She stared at his nude body in awe. "My God, you look like a Greek god in the moonlight," she whispered.
'Darlin', Greek gods do not have black hair. They're all blonds," he said.
"Darlin,' I'm telling this story and you are a Greek god in it.

Carolyn Brown

#50. The problem with mornings is the way they reveal the things that darkness and moonlight obscure.

Eva Truesdale

#51. Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight)

Peter S. Beagle

#52. The streetlights had already lit up on Bronnaya, and a golden moon hung over the Patriarchs. In the ever deceiving lunar light, it appeared to Ivan Nikolayevich that, instead of a cane, the professor stood holding a sword under his arm.

Mikhail Bulgakov

#53. Um ... " I mumbled, "We wait."
"What? Wait? Do you expect them to just come up here to the beach to get some moonlight?" He sneered as he took another bite of the eagle.

Grace Fiorre

#54. Every book is three books, after all; the one the writer intended, the one the reader expected, and the one that casts its shadow when the first two meet by moonlight.

John M. Ford

#55. She was so pale she could have been moonlight.

Thylias Moss

#56. Snowlight, moonlight, a confusion of paw-prints.

Angela Carter

#57. Maybe I didn't know her as well as I might have wanted. But I can tell you this: love mattered a great deal to Scarlet Montana. I think it must have mattered to Jake too. Because if love hadn't been important to them, they wouldn't have fallen to pieces when it suddenly abandoned them.

Vincent Zandri

#58. He held out his right hand in the moonlight. From the cut on his wrist the blood was still oozing. Every few seconds a drop fell, dark, almost colourless in the dead light. Drop, drop, drop. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow ...
He had discovered the Time and Death and God.

Aldous Huxley

#59. A few poetic regrets, if adroitly placed, are as becoming to a woman as gossamer hair in the moonlight. What

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#60. Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult - the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight.

Edgar Degas

#61. Moonlight and roses hide muggers and thorns." Again

Phyllis Smallman

#62. The full Moon's light poured into the room like a stroke from a wide paintbrush...

Peter Hammarberg

#63. I dissolved, so white, so unapproachable, amid my white flame, in the whiteness of moonlight

Giannis Ritsos

#64. All is going on as it was wont. The waves are hoarse with repetition of their mystery; the dust lies piled upon the shore; the sea-birds soar and hover; the winds and clouds go forth upon their trackless flight; the white arms beckon, in the moonlight, to the invisible country far away.

Charles Dickens

#65. When it came night, the white waves paced to and fro in the moonlight, and the wind brought the sound of the great sea's voice to the men on shore, and they felt that they could then be interpreters.

Stephen Crane

#66. You saw a fluttering fan before her face and magnolia blooms and sleepy lakes under the moonlight when she walked.

Zora Neale Hurston

#67. What girl could fail to make a conquest who collapsed at a man's feet in the moonlight?

John L. Balderston

#68. Darkness disturbed
By the haunting white moonlight
Grey half clouds fail to contain
The moon's lust for the night.

Sreesha Divakaran

#69. I don't just do power ballads. I have a lot of up-tempo stuff, too - like 'Can't Fight the Moonlight.'

Diane Warren

#70. Moonlight drifts from over
A hundred thousand miles
To fall upon a cemetery
It reads a hundred epitaphs
And then smiles at a nest of
Baby owls

Richard Brautigan

#71. It makes me wonder what I might become that day when I've nothing to hold me back, when I've only the flame in my gut and the beat of my wings to take me through the dark.

Rebecca Hahn

#72. This is what love is. Not the moments on the beach, or under the stars or the trees, or in the moonlight. Love is sitting together in the quiet, waiting for death to come.
Knowing you're not alone.

Carolee Dean

#73. How wide are the horizons of the spinning earth! The moonlight leads the tides and the sun's light will not be confined within the net of heaven. But in the end all things return to the One. The deaf and the dumb, the crippled and deformed are all restored to One's perfection.

Hsu Yun

#74. Even now I steal outdoors in the dead of night to sit on the tree swing and watch the shadows breathe in the moonlight.

Debra K. Rodgers

#75. Happiness is to take up the struggle in the midst of the raging storm and not to pluck the lute in the moonlight or recite poetry among the blossoms.

Ding Ling

#76. Little sleep's-head sprouting hair in the moonlight,
when I come back
we will go out together,
we will walk out together among,
the ten thousand things,
each scratched too late with such knowledge, the wages of dying is love.

Galway Kinnell

#77. But if God is the flowers and the trees
And the hills and the sun and the moonlight,
Then I believe in him,
Then I believe in him all the time,
And my whole life is an oration and a mass,
And a communion with my eyes and through my ears.

Alberto Caeiro

#78. Moonlight lined the windowsills like a fall of snow.

Beryl Bainbridge

#79. He's dancing with the devil in pale moonlight

Matthew Dicks

#80. It is the same game that Moonlight Graham played in 1905. It is a living part of history, like calico dresses, stone crockery, and threshing crews eating at outdoor tables. It continually reminds us of what was, like an Indian-head penny in a handful of new coins.

W.P. Kinsella

#81. It was the first breath of the new moon, but the whole of it was visible, a perfect ball of violet and indigo cupped in a sickle of light, luminous among the stars.

Diana Gabaldon

#82. I'm a moon junky. Every time I look at the moon I feel less alone and less afraid. I tell my boys that moonlight is a magic blanket and the stars above are campfires set by friendly aliens.

Amy Poehler

#83. Drink in the moon as though you might die of thirst.

Sanober Khan

#84. On fine nights when the cold and the drumtaps, and the hooting of the owls, and the moonlight, have got into their wild, woodland blood and made it even wilder, they will dance till daybreak.

C.S. Lewis

#85. But the full moon soothes all sick animal, be they human or plan field beast. there is a serenity of color, a quietude of touch, a sweet sculpturing of mind and body in full moonlight.

Ray Bradbury

#86. When the moonlight and the waterfall come together, all other things fade from the scene!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#87. The moonlight caught the glint of his lip ring, which he was now fondling with the tip of his tongue as he stared down at me. It was a bit awkward.

Holly Hood

#88. We all want to see Sunshine after Moonlight.

Jan Jansen

#89. With her face tilted up to his, the subtle edge of moonlight touched along the edge of one high cheekbone, the tilted edge of one eye, and those beautiful, enticing lips. Obeying an impulse he couldn't put into words, he lowered his head and covered her mouth with his.

Thea Harrison

#90. Beauty Lies Within The unknown

Michael Biondi

#91. All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#92. There is nothing these hands can hold worth having. They cannot hold the moonlight, or the melody of a song, or even the beauty of a woman. They can touch her face, but not her beauty. Only the heart can hold such things.

Adam Bagdasarian

#93. The moonlight rained down on the beach as if to shine a spotlight on my solitude, and I wanted to cry out at it, 'Why did you take her? You, surrounded by all of your twinkling stars and infinite wonders and darkness. There's already enough beauty where you are.

Rachael Wade

#94. Under the beautiful moonlight, there remains no ugly reality; even muds turn into the diamonds!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#95. Neon lights, moonlight, flickering streetlamps, and shadow through the bedroom window blanket us in an ever-changing quilt. Pearl wraps her arms around my middle and lays her head on my chest. I drink from the bottle of whiskey, both uncomfortable and comforted at the same time.

Logan Ryan Smith

#96. Whiteness of moonlight builds a house that is not there

Kathleen Raine

#97. On the misty window of her room, she let her finger trace a broken line. She was that line.

Azin Sametipour

#98. The melancholy river bears us on. When the moon comes through the trailing willow boughs, I see your face, I hear your voice and the bird singing as we pass the osier bed. What are you whispering? Sorrow, sorrow. Joy, joy. Woven together, like reeds in moonlight.

Virginia Woolf

#99. Beyond the fence the forest stood up spectrally in the moonlight, and through the dim stir, through the faint sounds of that lamentable courtyard, the silence of the land went home to one's very heart - its mystery, its greatness, the amazing reality of its concealed life.

Joseph Conrad

#100. All I want is moonlight, with you there inside of me, all night, doing it again and again. You know I want you so bad.

Toni Braxton