Moon Quotes

2502 Moon quotes by 1474 unique authors

And he beholds the moon; like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light. — Gustave Flaubert
As the body rolled to the ground Tarzan of the Apes placed his foot upon the neck of his lifelong enemy and, raising his eyes… — Edgar Rice Burroughs
One day, Annabel saw the sun and moon in the sky at the same time. The sight filled her with a terror which entirely consumed… — Angela Carter
It was quite impossible to describe. Here is what it looked like. It looked like a piano sounds shortly after being dropped down a well.… — Terry Pratchett
So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the… — Zora Neale Hurston
I am a cemetery by the moon unblessed. — Charles Baudelaire
The moon in her chariot of pearl — Oscar Wilde
So when the moon's only partly full, you only feel a little wolfy?" "You could say that." "Well, you can go ahead and hang your… — Cassandra Clare
We both wondered whether these contradictions that one can't avoid if one begins to think of time and space may not really be proofs that… — Arthur Machen
Poverty's child - he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon. — Matsuo Basho
There is a place where the sidewalk ends, And before the street begins, And there the grass grows soft and white, And there the sun… — Shel Silverstein
The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat: They took some honey, and plenty of money Wrapped up in a… — Edward Lear
Poetry, the best of it, is lunar and is concerned with the essential insanities. Journalism is solar (there are numerous newspapers named The Sun, none… — Tom Robbins
I think of the flower in the bud: huddled, compressed, dark. Yet somehow it feels the night, knows moon from sun. It waits...waits. — Jerry Spinelli
Leave it to a naive world-saver like you to view our love as a Sacred Cause when in actual fact all it was was some… — Tom Robbins
Shoot the moon," Aurora says dreamily. "Would it bleed, do you think? I think it would. I think it would bleed...shooting stars. — Sara Ryan
She represents love, beauty, purity, the ideal female and the moon...and she's the mystère of jealousy, vengeance and discord, AND, on the other hand, of… — Zadie Smith
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… — Zbigniew Herbert
At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me. Close the language-door and… — Unknown Author
Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7 — John Sandford
Moonlight streamed in, sending loving beams over his face. He closed his eyes and basked in it, and I could tell it was calling to… — Patricia Briggs
Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud. — Nikki Giovanni
There was a sky somewhere above the tops of the buildings, with stars and a moon and all the things there are in a sky,… — Hubert Selby, Jr.
However long the moon disappears, someday it must shine again. — Chris Cleave
Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise. — Maya Angelou

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