Moon Quotes - Page 2

• The moon develops the imagination, as chemicals develop photographic images.

  Sheila Ballantyne

  Imagination, Chemicals

  Sheila Ballantyne (1983). “Norma Jean, the termite queen”, Viking Pr

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• That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Night, Fire, White

  'The Cloud' (1819)

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• The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.

  Jean Ingelow

  Flower, Night, Looks

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  We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

  Mother Teresa

  God, Nature, Stars

  1975 A Gift for God,'Willing Slaves to theWill of God'.

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• ...the moon that hung over the garden like some great priceless pearl, flawed and blemished with grey shadowy ridges as only a very great beauty can risk being.

  Anita Desai

  Garden, Risk, Pearls

  Anita Desai (1980). “Clear Light of Day”, p.159, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.

  Confucius

  Wise, Men, Intelligence

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• Under your skin the moon is alive.

  Pablo Neruda

  Skins, Alive, Suffocating

  Pablo Neruda, “Ode To A Naked Beauty”

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• The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.

  Plautus

  Life, Success, Money

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• Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

  John Lennon

  Stars, Self Esteem, Shine On

  Song: Instant Karma!

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• I like to think the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.

  Albert Einstein

  Thinking, Physics, Quantum

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• See yonder fire! It is the moon slow rising o'er the eastern hill. It glimmers on the forest tips, and through the dewy foliage drips In little rivulets of light, and makes the heart in love with night.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Heart, Night, Fire

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edwin Edwards (1871). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Edited, with a Critical Memoir, by W. M. Rossetti. Illustrated ... by E. Edwards”, p.165

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• The moon does not think to be reflected, nor does the water think to reflect, in the Hirosawa Pond.

  Yamaoka Tesshu

  Reality, Thinking, Water

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• The moon shines for you.

  Lisa Loeb

  Expression, Shining

  Song: Lisa Listen, Album: Tails

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• I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.

  Pat Conroy

  Ocean, Faces, Immensity

  Pat Conroy (1995). “Beach Music”, Nan A. Talese

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• The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.

  William Shakespeare

  Fire, Thieves, Sun

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens, Richard Farmer (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.401

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• Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Fake People, Halloween

  Following the Equator ch. 66, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

  Anton Chekhov

  Inspirational, Writing, Glasses

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• Your thoughts are a veil on the face of the Moon. That Moon is your heart, and those thoughts cover your heart. So let them go, just let them fall into the water.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Fall, Heart

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• You are the root of heaven, the morning star, the bright moon, the house of endless Love

  Rumi

  Morning, Stars, Roots

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• 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 open the love-window. The moon won't use the door, only the window.

  Rumi

  Love, Marriage, Night

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• What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?

  Thomas Merton

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Sailing

  Thomas Merton (2015). “Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation”, p.35, Sounds True

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• The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?

  Oscar Wilde

  Stars, Heaven, Soul

  Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

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• You are immortal; you exist for billions of years in different manifestations, because you are Life, and Life cannot die. You are in the trees, the butterflies, the fish, the air, the moon, the sun. Wherever you go, you are there, waiting for yourself.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Life, Butterfly, Years

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• They say true love only comes around once and you have to hold out and be strong until then. I have been waiting. I have been searching. I am a man under the moon, walking the streets of earth until dawn. There's got to be someone for me. It's not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone.

  Henry Rollins

  Strong, Men, Giving

  "Solipsist". Book by Henry Rollins, August 10, 1998.

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• Not secondary to the sun, she gives us his blaze again, Void of its flame, and sheds a softer day... In Heaven queen she is among the spheres; She, mistress-like, makes all things to be pure.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Queens, Flames, Giving

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.247, Simon and Schuster

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