Shadow Of The Moon Quotes

#1. Of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are the most apt to get out of order.

Herman Melville

#2. She didn't watch the dead, ancient bone-chess cities slide under, or the old canals filled with emptiness and dreams. Past dry rivers and dry lakes they flew, like a shadow of the moon, like a torch burning.

Ray Bradbury

#3. 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

#4. We went into darkness after being in daylight the whole time on the way to the Moon. And then we went into darkness. And we're in the shadow ... of the Moon.

Eugene Cernan

#5. The proper term is "occultation." The moon occults the sun, casting a small shadow onto the surface of the earth. It is not a solar eclipse, but in fact an eclipse of the earth.

Guillermo Del Toro

#6. Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.

Rumi

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

Marina Tsvetaeva

#8. You are the sacred consummation of the sun and the moon and the shadow and you will become the poison of death. [Sylvian]

Karen Maitland

#9. The term "solar eclipse" is in fact a misnomer. An eclipse occurs when one object passes into a shadow cast by another. In a solar eclipse, the moon does not pass into the sun's shadow, but instead passes between the sun and the earth, obscuring the sun -

Guillermo Del Toro

#10. 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

#11. Beneath the blossoms with a pot of wine, No friends at hand, so I poured alone; I raised my cup to invite the moon, Turned to my shadow, and we became three.

Li Bai

#12. I felt rather like the new moon: the shadow of pain and death was still clearly visible to me - but only because the light was there to throw it into perspective.

Diana Gabaldon

#13. Your image has receded till it is like the thinnest shadow of the old moon... a thin silver edge appeared, and now you hang like a sickle over my life.

Virginia Woolf

#14. I am the shadow on the moon at night/Filling your dreams to the brim with fright.

Tim Burton

#15. The daemon wind died down, and the bloated, fungoid moon sank reddeningly in the west.

H.P. Lovecraft

#16. I'm in no hurry. What for?
The sun and moon aren't in a hurry: they're right.
Hurrying is believing people can get past their legs,
Or that, jumping, they can land past their shadow.
No; I don't know how to hurry.

Alberto Caeiro

#17. I have seen the shadow of the Earth on the moon, and I have more faith in the shadow than in the church

Ferdinand Magellan

#18. Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!

Anonymous

#19. Early on May 23, 1997, from 28,500 feet on Everest, I witnessed the incredible shadow of the mountain, the penumbra, forming to the west as the sun rose behind me. The full moon from the night before was still visible. The bluish cast of the atmosphere can also be seen.

Ed Viesturs

#20. But it doesn't matter. Nothing matters now. And the sound of her voice in the forest was just like a little tremulous song. And the leaves turn even more yellow, fall is approaching; more stars have appeared in the sky, and from now on the moon looks like a shadow of silver dipped in gold.

Knut Hamsun

#21. Outside, the moon is a silver sliver. Every night, the shadow eats a slice of it, until it's nothing but this hollow rind. I feel the same way; with each day, I lose a little more of myself.

Jodi Picoult

#22. Believing you are good is like believing in the half moon.

Thomas Lloyd Qualls

#23. The church says the earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence even in a shadow than in the church.

Ferdinand Magellan

#24. Nightfall, when the moon is born... ...Hides a shadow that lurks in the dark. it seeks the bloody of a damsel. The creature know as vampire.

Kazuko Furumiya

#25. Don't worry about the past, it's only a shadow wanting to follow you under the brilliance of the sun. And the future is only the moon, still glowing in honor of the sun. Live in the moment and embrace where life takes you.

Jes Fuhrmann

#26. You are the sun, and I'm the moon.
In your shadow I can shine.

Tokio Hotel

#27. The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out
You left me in the dark
No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight
In the shadow of your heart

Florence Welch

#28. Throughout history every great empire has collapsed...there have been no exceptions.

Joe Barfield

#29. Beneath the moons' shadowscape, wisdom, women, whiskey and you are a dangerous and provocative combination...

Virginia Alison

#30. The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church. Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese and Spanish explorer

George Washington

#31. An important memory is like a gravitational field
the mind is compelled to return to it again and again. It is like a moon; it lives in light and shadow.

Rikki Ducornet

#32. A song she heard
Of cold that gathers
Like winter's tongue
Among the shadows
It rose like blackness
In the sky
That on volcano's
Vomit rise
A Stone of ruin
From burn to chill
Like black moonrise
Her voice fell still ...

Robert Fanney

#33. The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle.

Nicolaus Copernicus

#34. May your feet ever walk in the light of two suns ... and may the moonshadow never fall on you ...

Robert Fanney

#35. -a superb moon, round as a pumpkin and golden as honey, filling the rooftop world with light, and deep, mysterious shadow.

Barbara Sleigh

#36. The view of the moon that we've been having recently is really spectacular. It fills about three-quarters of the hatch window, and of course we can see the entire circumference even though part of it is in complete shadow and part of it is in earthshine. It's a view worth the price of the trip.

Neil Armstrong

#37. And whiter grows the foam, The small moon lightens more; And as I turn me home, My shadow walks before.

Robert Bridges

#38. And if we can change things that have already happened if those planes can fly in uneasy formation if that splinter moon can blow away the shadows then anything, anything at all.

Jaclyn Moriarty

#39. I used to be followed by a moon shadow. Now I'm followed by all these misconceptions, and they're like a ball and chain. I just want to write music from my heart and give people a message of hope and the search for a better place.

Cat Stevens

#40. Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.

Zelda Fitzgerald

#41. I do not deny that you overwhelm me with your beauty. You are the moon in the season of shadow light; you are the fruit of the candlewood tree; you are the phoenix in circles of flight
.

Gregory Maguire

#42. Shadow thought about how you made the moon seem to come out of the sky and become a silver dollar, and what made a woman get out of her grave and walk across town to talk to you.

Neil Gaiman

#43. I'm being followed by a moon shadow
Leaping and hopping on a moon shadow ...
Did it take long to find me, I asked the faithful light
... and are you going to stay the night?

Cat Stevens

#44. One marvel of a day he had walked so far that when he returned the moon was high and full and all the world was purple shadow and silver.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#45. Still as
On windless nights
The moon-cast shadows are,
So still will be my heart when I
Am dead.

Adelaide Crapsey