Moonlight Quotes - Page 4

• With her braided hair and white dress, she seemed to glow in the moonlight.

  Rick Riordan

  Hair, White, Dresses

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Percy Jackson: The Complete Series”, p.833, Penguin UK

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• The road made wet by the water of August shines like it was cut in full moonlight

  Pablo Neruda

  Cutting, August, Water

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• Hallelujah" "Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bathing on the roof. Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you. She tied you to a kitchen chair, she broke your throne, and she cut your hair. And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah.

  Leonard Cohen

  Strong, Cutting, Hair

  Song: Hallelujah

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• He lost his Self a thousand times and for days on end he dwelt in non-being. But although the paths took him away from Self, in the end they always led back to it. Although Siddhartha fled from the Self a thousand times, dwelt in nothing, dwelt in animal and stone, the return was inevitable; the hour was inevitable when he would again find himself in sunshine or in moonlight, in shadow or in rain, and was again Self and Siddhartha, again felt the torment of the onerous life cycle.

  Hermann Hesse

  Rain, Sunshine, Animal

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• Don't blame it on the sunshine. Don't blame it on the moonlight. Blame it on the boogie.

  Michael Jackson

  Sunshine, Blame, Boogie

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• O it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be what you please.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Heart, Sunset, Clouds

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.298

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• I don't think the sunrise is as good as the moonlight.

  Candy Darling

  Thinking, Sunrise

  Candy Darling (2015). “Candy Darling: Memoirs of an Andy Warhol Superstar”, p.29, Open Road Media

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• The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show. A companion with whom I was sailing one very windy but bright moonlight night, when the stars were few and faint, thought that a man could get along with them,-though he was considerably reduced in his circumstances,-that they were a kind of bread and cheese that never failed.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Stars, Night, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1261, Delphi Classics

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• Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

  Auguste Rodin

  Art, Looks, Different

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• You are mine-you know you're mine!" he cried wildly...the moonlight twisted in through the vines and listened...the fireflies hung upon their whispers as if to win his glance from the glory of their eyes.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Eye, Firefly, Winning

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.271, e-artnow

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• Every book is three books, after all; the one the writer intended, the one the reader expected, and the one that casts its shadow when the first two meet by moonlight.

  John M. Ford

  Book, Two, Shadow

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• I got my red dress on tonight
  Dancing in the dark in the pale moonlight
  Done my hair up real big beauty queen style
  High heels off, I'm feeling alive

  Lana Del Rey

  Queens, Real, Dark

  Song: Summertime Sadness, 2012

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• Moonlight, white satin, roses. A bride.

  Angela Carter

  White, Rose, Satin

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• When the moonlight and the waterfall come together, all other things fade from the scene!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Together, Waterfalls, Scene

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• A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

  Robertson Davies

  Morning, Reading, Book

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• Sometimes I like to run naked in the moonlight and the wind, on a little trail behind our house, when the honeysuckle blooms. It's a feeling of freedom, so close to God and nature.

  Dolly Parton

  Running, Wind, House

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• I dissolved, so white, so unapproachable, amid my white flame, in the whiteness of moonlight

  Giannis Ritsos

  Flames, White, Whiteness

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• Love is like moonlight or thunder, or rain on a tin roof in the middle of the night; it is one of those things in life that is truly worth knowing.

  Sonya Hartnett

  Rain, Night, Love Is

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• She stepped out from among their shifting confusion of lovely lights and shadows. A circle of grass, smooth as a lawn, met her eyes, with dark trees dancing all around it. And then --Oh Joy! For he was there: the huge Lion, shining white in the moonlight, with his huge black shadow underneath him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Eye, Dark, Light

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• While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea.

  Charles Dickens

  Life, Flower, Heart

  Charles Dickens (1996). “Little Dorrit”, p.320, Wordsworth Editions

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• I am your moon and your moonlight too I am your flower garden and your water too I have come all this way, eager for you Without shoes or shawl I want you to laugh To kill all your worries To love you To nourish you.

  Rumi

  Flower, Love You, Garden

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• So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Standing There, Standing, Left

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'”, p.115, Cambridge University Press

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• We danced too wild, and we sang too long, and we hugged too hard, and we kissed too sweet, and howled just as loud as we wanted to howl, because by now we were all old enough to know that what looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight.

  Pearl Cleage

  Sweet, Crazy, Ordinary Days

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• But I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle, I leave the village politics and personalities, yes, and the world of villages and personalities behind, and pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight, too bright almost for spotted man to enter without novitiate and probation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Sunset, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.452, Modern Library

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• The process by which the idea for a play comes to me has always been something I really couldn't pinpoint. A play just seems to materialize; like an apparition, it gets clearer and clearer and clearer. It's very vague at first, as in the case of Streetcar, which came after Menagerie. I simply had the vision of a woman in her late youth. She was sitting in a chair all alone by a window with the moonlight streaming in on her desolate face, and she'd been stood up by the man she planned to marry.

  Tennessee Williams

  Men, Play, Ideas

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