Quotes, aphorisms and phrases on the moon, or the only natural satellite of the earth observable without the aid of optical instruments, a source of inspiration for poets and lovers embraced in the light of its light.
Quotes on the moon
- The moon is the only friend the loner can talk to. (Carl Sandburg)
- Everything has a natural explanation. The Moon is not a goddess, but a large rocky globe, and the Sun is not a god, but an immense fiery world. (Anaxagoras)
- Pure solitude and profound peace. The best things the moon can offer men. (Haruki Murakami)
- Is the sun chasing the moon, or the moon chasing the sun? And will heaven ever tire of making them uncomfortable third? (Jim Morrison)
- When the moon comes up the bells go silent and the paths seem impenetrable. When the moon comes up the sea covers the earth and the heart becomes an island in infinity. (Federico Garcia Lorca)
- The splendor of the moon, with its light, has torn away the garment of the night; drink wine, because such a moment cannot be found; be glad and think that many moon shines
they will come one after the other on the face of the earth. (Omar Khayyam)
- The moon comes up every day, even on black days, to remind you that every day can be beautiful. (Jane Hamilton)
- Each of us is a moon: it has a dark side that it never shows to anyone else. (Mark Twain)
- I, of the Moon know practically everything; if I had to go it would be useless. And then, I should get on the spaceship. But you know that I don't even take the plane. (Isaac Asimov)
- There are only two problems to solve when going to the moon: first, how to get there; and second, how to go back. The key is not to leave before solving both problems. (Neil Armstrong)
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- On the stars I would paint a poem by Benedetti with a dream by Van Gogh and a song by Serrat would be the serenade I would offer to the moon. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
Aphorisms on the moon
- Crazy is the man who speaks to the moon. Those who don't listen to it are foolish. (William Shakespeare)
- To be big, be whole: don't go overboard and don't exclude anything about yourself. Be everything in everything. Put as much as you are, in the least you do, as the Moon shines in every lake, because in Alto it lives. (Fernando Pessoa)
- The growing moon hovered higher and higher, and the wind became more violent and cold: it twisted the white fog, made it oblique columns and quivering clouds that it dragged towards the west, to scatter them in tatters on the swamps. (J.R.R.Tolkien)
- Dreamer is someone who finds his way in the light of the moon ... punished because he sees the sunrise before the others. (Oscar Wilde)
- It is incredible to think that when I look at the moon, it is the same moon that Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and George Washington and Cleopatra looked at. (Susan Beth Pfeffer)
- But even when the moon seems to go down ... in reality it never changes shape. Never forget it. (Ai Yazawa)
- Watch! The moon shows us who we really are, we are not among the living and therefore we cannot die, but neither are we dead. (Geoffrey Rush)
- Aim for the moon. If you miss it, you may hit a star. (W. Clement Stone)
- Poetry was born on the night when man contemplated the moon while aware that it was not edible. (Valeriu Butulescu)
- What conditions are more favorable to the work of a writer than the silence of his room, illuminated by the moon which gives every creature of fantasy such a vivid relief? (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
- If the Sun and the Moon were to doubt, they would immediately go out. (William Blake)
Phrases on the moon
- Is spaceflight first on the moon, then on Mars, isn't this the oldest human desire, the greatest hope for glory? (Philip K. Dick)
- I like to think that the moon is there, even if I don't look. (Albert Einstein)
- This world as it is made is not bearable. I need the moon, or happiness or immortality, for something that is demented perhaps, but that is not of this world. (Albert Camus)
- And wherever I go, there I will always find the Sun, Moon and Stars; I will find dreams and omens, and I will converse with the gods. (Epictetus)
- When the moon is red it makes wind, when it is clear it means clear, when it is pale, it will rain. (Giovanni Verga)
- In cities without the sea ... who knows who the people are to find their balance ... maybe the moon. (Banana Yoshimoto)
- Pure solitude and profound peace.The best things the moon could offer men. (Haruki Murakami)
- The sea knows nothing of the past. He is there, he will never ask us to explain anything to him. The stars, the moon, are there, and they continue to illuminate us, they shine for us. What do you want them to care about what happened? They keep us company and are happy. (Idelfonso Falcones)
- In the dark night the dark moon makes the white moon. (Torquato Tasso)
- It's all the fault of the moon, when it gets too close to the earth it drives everyone crazy. (William Shakespeare)
- It was completely night, but the moon sent so much light that it could almost compete with the star that lent it to him. (Miguel De Cervantes)
