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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Stars, Moon, Brightest Star

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

  Gregory Maguire

  Summer

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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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• There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame; it comes to the soldier, war-mad in a stricken field and refusing quarter; and it came to Buck, leading the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry, straining after the food that was alive and that fled swiftly before him through the moonlight.

  Jack London

  War, Thinking, Artist

  Jack London (1903). “Call of the Wild”, p.83

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

  Jack Nicholson

  Devil, Batman Movie, Pale

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• 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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• The moonlight lay upon the hills like snow.

  Dorothy Wordsworth

  Moon, Snow, Hills

  Dorothy Wordsworth, Mary Trevelyan Moorman (1971). “Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth: the Alfoxden journal, 1798; the Grasmere journals, 1800-1803”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Sing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Music, Voice, Feelings

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.306

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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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• She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.

  Raymond Chandler

  Taj Mahal, Looks, Way

  Raymond Chandler (1995). “Later Novels & Other Writings”

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