Moon Quotes
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"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."
"The moon is a loyal companion.It never leaves. It’s always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do. Every day it’s a different version of itself. Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light. The moon understands what it means to be human.Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections."
"Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars."
"Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change."
"I want a moon canoe, because have you ever tried paddling through dirt? Love is a journey, and I try to travel as efficiently as I can."
"We ran as if to meet the moon."
"I had a dream about you. I told you I loved you, and you stopped folding clothes, turned to look me in my eyes, and replied, “The cat food on the moon is probably all dry.” Then I started crying, because up until that point I had no idea that I meant that much to you and I was overjoyed with raw emotion."
"I meet people to know I’m not alone. I network like an astronaut on the moon."
"You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch."
"May your feet ever walk in the light of two suns... and may the moonshadow never fall on you..."
"Only the living can read. This means that when I write, my target market is people of the future. Greetings, people of the moon!"
"a flower knows, when its butterfly will return, and if the moon walks out, the sky will understand;but now it hurts, to watch you leave so soon,when I don't know, if you will ever come back."
"The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen."
"Cheap little rhymesA cheap little tuneAre sometimes as dangerousAs a sliver of the moon."
"i want to be in love with youthe same wayi am in love with the moonwith the lightshiningout of its soul."
"To buy a cake... to howl at the moon... to know true happiness... I am happy."
"The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought"
"With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we could see that the earth and the heavens were no longer divided but that the earth is in the heavens. (105)"
"...you're either gonna spend your life fucking pussy, or taking it to church."
"In presence of the Moon nobody sees stars."
"The moon is the reflection of your heart and moonlight is the twinkle of your love."
"Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them."
"We thought everything would be forgotten, but I still remember yourclaws running down my back.I wonder if you still think about us,the way I do.How our legs would crash into each other in the middle of the night, and how we endedup creating the moon in the confines of our beds."
"You may have the dark and cold street life, ruled by the lessor light of the moon. During this time I restore my temple, and later awake to greet the awesome radiance of the sun-star."
"The journey of the sun and moon is predictable, but yours is your ultimate art."
"I am longing for you in life and in deathAs the moon is longing for night and life is longing for breath"
"The sun still lives his silent vows to the moon, by bowing to kiss her feet whenever she walks in the room."
"The well padded astrologer stroked his corpulent belly, as he stared down intently at his cowrie board. There was a frown on his moon shaped face, a face that had always considered good rich food his birthright, even as he strove to read the cryptic messages that the Gods were strewing before him."
"Aim for the moon, but in your way there don't forget to dance with the stars and shine as bright as the sun."
"I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either.Nobody goes faster than the legs they have.If where I want to go is far away, I’m not there in an instant.(6/20/1919)"
"He who called her so called her by her true name, for she is the full moon of full moons, afore God!"
"In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
"The splendor of God is displayed in the stars with the magnificent of the moon."
"People say- 'NASA lies.' I say- 'the moon knows it all. Look at the moon and forget the spinning flat world."
"Live in the shadow of the moon until you're bright enough to give birth to your own suns."
"The moon stared at me through sprinkled nighttime stardust and I alone smile."
"With callused handsi tastedthe softness of the moonin the coldest windsi discoveredmy soul's warmest fireplacein the roughnessof his stubblethe tenderest love."
"In starlit nights I saw you,So cruelly you kissed me.Your lips a magic world,Your sky all hung with jewels.The killing moonWill come too soon."
"No matter how bleak and black her existence became, the familiar sight of the moon restored something within her, small as it was—like tiny fluttering wings of flame beating back the darkness."
"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."
"Death’s life should have listened to the moonly whispers of breathing in the coldest nights"
"I swear that girl was born with a pen in her hand, the moon in her hair and stars in her soul."
"At midnight, in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon."
"She is like the white skies, the shine, the sun and its rhyme.While he is the darkness that blinds,the moon, the wolf in mysterious confines."
"Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon."
"i am like the moon--sometimes, full.sometimes, black.sometimes,forever and ever alone."
"they say people only hear what they want to hear,but i don't know if that is always true, i've been wanting to hear your heart and it's as silent as the moon."
"HEARTWORKEach day is born with a sunriseand ends in a sunset, the same way weopen our eyes to see the light, and close them to hear the dark.You have no control overhow your story begins or ends.But by now, you should know thatall things have an ending.Every spark returns to darkness.Every sound returns to silence.And every flower returns to sleepwith the earth.The journey of the sunand moon is predictable.But yours, is your ultimateART."
"I fancied my luck to be witnessing yet another full moon. True, I’d seen hundreds of full moons in my life, but they were not limitless. When one starts thinking of the full moon as a common sight that will come again to one’s eyes ad-infinitum, the value of life is diminished and life goes by uncherished. ‘This may be my last moon,’ I sighed, feeling a sudden sweep of sorrow; and went back to reading more of The Odyssey."
"All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide like the moon cannot stop oceanic tide;but a hidden star can still be smiling at night's black spell on darkness, beguiling"
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