Moon Quotes

• We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Sides, Darker Side

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• It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.

  Galileo Galilei

  Beautiful, Sight, Body

  Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler (2016). “The Sidereal Messenger of Galileo Galilei and a Part of the Preface to Kepler's Dioptrics Containing the Original Account of Galileo's Astronomical Discoveries”, p.9, Library of Alexandria

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

  Rumi

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Nature

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• The moon was up, painting the world silver, making things look just a little more alive.

  N.D. Wilson

  Looks, Alive, World

  N. D. Wilson (2008). “Leepike Ridge”, p.16, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Buddhist, Yoga

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  Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt at being told that it is a fragment awaiting perfection.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Perfection, Doubt, Crescent

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.460, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Flower, Book

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). “The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings”, p.128, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

  Confucius

  Motivational, Wisdom, Buddhist

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• The moon is the first milestone on the road to the stars.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Stars, Space, Goal

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• When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Beauty, Religious, Sunset

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.175, Grove Press

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• Fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars.

  Frank Sinatra

  Stars, Play, Let Me

  Song: Fly Me To The Moon In Other Word

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  Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

  W. Clement Stone

  Motivational, Missing You, Stars

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• There is something haunting in the light of the moon.

  Joseph Conrad

  Halloween, Light, Haunting

  Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.230, McClure, Phillips & Company

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• There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.

  Matsuo Basho

  Flower, Thinking

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• It is the very error of the moon; She comes more nearer earth than she was wont, And makes men mad.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Errors, Mad

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 5, sc. 2, l. 107

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• May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Inspirational, Life, Travel

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Tonight the moon kisses the stars.
  O beloved,be like that to me!

  Rumi

  Stars, Kissing, Tonight

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• The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It keeps to its course, but by its very nature, it gently influences. What other body could pull an entire ocean from shore to shore? The moon is faithful to its nature and its power is never diminished.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Crush, Ocean, Fighting

  Ming-Dao Deng (2013). “Everyday Tao: Living with Balance and Harmony”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Fall, Knows, Ifs

  D. H. Lawrence (1995). “The Rainbow”, p.300, Wordsworth Editions

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• There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Halloween, Night

  George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.86, Hachette UK

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• Don't tell me the sky's the limit.

  Paul Brandt

  Inspirational, Sky, Famous Motivational

  Song: There's A World Out There, Album: That's the Truth, 1999

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• I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Lunatic Asylums, Earth

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• The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

  Carl Sandburg

  Full Moon, Lonesome, Lonesomeness

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.665, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

  Jean Paul

  Time, Light, Hair

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