Moonlight Quotes - Page 3

• This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Dust, Tree

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.273, Vintage

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• To what shall
  I liken the world?
  Moonlight, reflected
  In dewdrops,
  Shaken from a crane's bill.

  Dogen

  Relaxation, World, Bills

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• Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.

  Laurie Anderson

  Kings, Shining, Midnight

  RoseLee Goldberg, Laurie Anderson (2000). “Laurie Anderson”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated

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• Sweet moonlight, shining full and clear, Why do you light my torture here? How often have you seen me toil, Burning last drops of midnight oil. On books and papers as I read, My friend, your mournful light you shed. If only I could flee this den And walk the mountain-tops again, Through moonlit meadows make my way, In mountain caves with spirits play - Released from learning's musty cell, Your healing dew would make me well!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Sweet, Book, Healing

  "The Essential Goethe".

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• A chaos of mind and body - a time for weeping at sunsets and at the glamour of moonlight - a confusion and profusion of beliefs and hopes, in God, in Truth, in Love, and in Eternity - an ability to be transported by the beauty of physical objects - a heart to ache or swell- a joy so hoyful and a sorrow so sorrowful that oceans could lie between them.

  T. H. White

  Lying, Ocean, Heart

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• I was born to find goblins in their caves / And chase moonlight / To see shadows and seek hidden rivers / To hear the rain fall on dry leaves / And chat a bit with death across foggy nights.

  James Kavanaugh

  Rain, Fall, Night

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• Beautiful city! . . . spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age . . . her ineffable charm. . . . Adorable dreamer, whose heart has been so romantic!

  Matthew Arnold

  Beautiful, Heart, Garden

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• If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you

  Henry Rollins

  Wall, Writing, Night

  Henry Rollins (1996). “Do I Come Here Often”, 2.13.61 Publications

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• The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, Memories, Night

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• Wit is the lightning of the mind, reason the sunshine, and reflection the moonlight.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Sunshine, Reflection, Mind

  Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.54

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• Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania

  William Shakespeare

  Proud, Mets, Midsummer

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 60

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• I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Journey, Wish

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.209, Courier Corporation

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• You know, "Moonlight" deserves best picture [on Oscar]. What I mean by tarnished is the moment - being able to be in front of all your peers and being able to thank everyone involved and particularly when it's a movie that has some pivotal social relevance, like "Moonlight," particularly in a time where, with this new transitional government, LGBT rights are just being stripped. This win means something.

  Cheo Hodari Coker

  Mean, Winning, Rights

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Then I think of the dark, and the lights, and the roaring, and Juliet, and before I can think of anything else, I fight the final few steps to the door and step out into the cold, where the rain is still coming down like shards of moonlight, or like steel.

  Lauren Oliver

  Rain, Dark, Fighting

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• ...and rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known.

  Irving Stone

  Light, Heat, Fierce

  Irving Stone (1987). “The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo”, Signet

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• How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica: look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold; There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins. Such harmony is in immortal souls; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Sleep, Angel

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 54

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• He who would see old Hoghton right Must view it by the pale moonlight.

  William Hazlitt

  Moon, Views, Pale

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• I think what I've learned from working on "Moonlight" is we see what happens when you persecute people. They fold into themselves.

  Mahershala Ali

  Thinking, People, I've Learned

  "In 'Moonlight,' Actor Mahershala Ali Found Characters He Recognized". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 16, 2017.

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• All these years I've had a story in my mind, the story about us that never really existed. And because of that story, I've kept you framed up on the wall in a little box of nostalgic moonlight.

  Cathleen Schine

  Wall, Years, Mind

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• The wastes of snow on the hill were ghostly in the moonlight. The stars were piercingly bright.

  Maud Hart Lovelace

  Stars, Snow, Waste

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• All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Twilight, Fog, Action

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.140, Princeton University Press

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• Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.

  Daniel Drew

  Men, Play, Cows

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• This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors look dull and lacking in moonlight. But he is always going away from you. Inside his head there is always something more beautiful.

  Sarah Ruhl

  Love, Beautiful, Artist

  Sarah Ruhl (2010). “The Clean House and Other Plays”, p.488, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We have strayed away from God, and He is in quest of us; Like us, He is humble and is a prisoner of desire: He is hidden in every atom, and yet is a stranger to us: He is revealed in the moonlight, and in the embrace of houses.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  God, Humble, House

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• The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, The road was a ribbon of moonlight, over the purple moor, And the highwayman came riding-- Riding--riding-- The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.

  Alfred Noyes

  Moon, Doors, Wind

  "The Highwayman" l. 3 (1907)

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