Moonlight Quotes

• Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

  Jean Paul

  Funny, Music, Night

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• A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight.

  Oscar Wilde

  Good Night, Dream, Punishment

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.296, OUP Oxford

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• Under the beautiful moonlight, there remains no ugly reality; even muds turn into the diamonds!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Reality, Ugly

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• Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Moonlight is sculpture.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Sunset, Sunrise, Sculpture

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2013). “Passages from the American Note-Books (Annotated Edition)”, p.148, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Soft moonlight and tender love harmonize together wonderfully.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Romantic Love, Together, Tender Love

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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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• Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.

  Rumi

  Sky, Horizon, Rooms

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• At midnight the wind in the tress can sound like the ocean. The moonlight can make a road appear as endless as the sea.

  Alice Hoffman

  Ocean, Wind, Sea

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• Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Stars, Moon, Brightest Star

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• There comes in all our lives a time ... when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.

  Marcel Proust

  Silence, Ears, Flutes

  Marcel Proust (2015). “Swann's Way”, p.138, Vintage

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• A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Good Night, Dream

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.296, OUP Oxford

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• In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing

  T. S. Eliot

  Singing, Grass, Waste Land

  1922 The Waste Land, pt.5,'What the Thunder Said'.

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• Somewhere out there, beneath the pale moonlight, someone's thinking of me and loving me tonight.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Philosophy, Thinking, Tonight

  Song: Somewhere Out There

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• It sometimes strikes me how immensely fortunate I am that each day should take its place in my life, either reddened with the rising and setting sun, or refreshingly cool with deep, dark clouds, or blooming like a white flower in the moonlight. What untold wealth!

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Life, Flower

  Rabindranath Tagore (1921). “Glimpses of Bengal: Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore, 1885 to 1895”

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• How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank Here we will sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness, and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Sleep, Night

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

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• Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Lying, Stories, Fabulous

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli (1995). “The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• There may be trouble ahead - But while there's moonlight, and music, and love, and romance -Let's face the music and dance.

  Irving Berlin

  Romance, And Love, May

  1936 'Let's Face the Music and Dance', in the film Follow the Fleet.

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• Have you ever danced with the Devil in the pale moonlight?

  Jack Nicholson

  Devil, Batman Movie, Pale

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• The spring is fresh and fearless
  And every leaf is new,
  The world is brimmed with moonlight,
  The lilac brimmed with dew.
  
  Here in the moving shadows
  I catch my breath and sing -
  My heart is fresh and fearless
  And over-brimmed with spring.

  Sara Teasdale

  Spring, Moving, Heart

  Sara Teasdale (1915). “Rivers to the Sea”

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• In summer moonlight, she was dangerously, inebriatingly magnified.

  Gregory Maguire

  Summer

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• What looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight.

  Pearl Cleage

  Crazy, Ordinary Days, Like Love

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• The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Beauty, Eye, Half

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• Be happy, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Wise, Philosophy

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.296, GENERAL PRESS

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• How does it happen that something that makes so much sense in the moonlight doesn't make any sense at all in the sunlight?

  Lana Turner

  Doe, Sunlight, Happens

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