Moon Quotes, Sayings
Want to be inspired? Look at the night sky, say authors, who insist that a star-studded sky can motivate anyone to greatness. Here are some of the best moon quotes to enchant your days and nights.
Inspirational moon quotes
Contemplating the moon has been an essential part of understanding our relationship with the cosmos since time began. Whether you’re on a moonlit stroll or just need inspiration, here are some of the best moon quotes.
1. Moonlight quotes
Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!
William Shakespeare
Moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is — as the light called human life is — at its coming and its going.
Charles Dickens
There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
Joseph Conrad
This is what I’m talking about: the bewitching power of moonlight. Moonlight incites dark passions like a cold flame, making hearts burning with the intensity of phosphorus.
Rampo Edogawa
The beautiful moon is an antidepressant. Love for her light is in every heart because she is so friendly, loving and forgiving.
Debasish Mridha MD
Sun and moon
Everybody has a little bit of the sun and moon in them.
Suzy Kassem
If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out.
William Blake
It is no secret that the moon has no light of her own but is, as it were, a mirror, receiving brightness from the influence of the sun.
Vitruvius
Full moon
The moon was reigning over their world, glowing its full splendor to all those willing to look up.
Irina Serban
The full moon — the mandala of the sky.
Tom Robbins
Full moon is a good fisherman; every eyes are easily caught in his net!
Mehmet Murat ildan
She used to tell me that a full moon was when mysterious things happen, and wishes come true.
Shannon A. Thompson
Moon and stars
Drag me to the moon to catch a star and seize its brilliance as I’m swept up in amorphous dust.
Bradley Chicho
The moon is the first milestone on the road to the stars.
Arthur C. Clarke
I am not a person who reaches for the moon as long as I have the stars.
Gertrude Ederle
You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.
Gary Allan
I’m as old as the moon and the stars, and as young as the trees and the lakes.
Afrika Bambaataa
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Dark side of the moon
Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
Mark Twain
We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.
Khalil Gibran
2. Moon and love quotes
Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: — you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
E.E. Cummings
The moon is the reflection of your heart and moonlight is the twinkle of your love.
Debasish Mridha
There was a man who loved the moon, but whenever he tried to embrace her, she broke into a thousand pieces and left him drenched, with empty arms.
Laini Taylor
I can feel the moon’s love for the Earth in my soul when its magical silent silvery light touches my heart.
Debasish Mridha
i want to be
in love with you /
the same way
i am in
love with the moon /
with the light
shining
out of its soul.
Sanober Khan
I will never be a morning person, for the moon and I are much too in love.
Christopher Poindexter
I’d rather live in a world where I get to love the moon than in one where I don’t, even if the moon won’t return the feeling.
Alex London
The moon is beautiful only when the mind is seeking beauty and the heart is loving.
Debasish Mridha
Romantic moon quotes
Moon of my life, My sun and stars.
Daenerys Targaryen, Game of Thrones
She is twice as beautiful as the moon and all of the stars together.
Giovannie de Sadeleer
If someday the moon calls you by your name don’t be surprised, because every night I tell her about you.
Shahrazad al-Khalij
I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos.
Tom Hanks
Be like the moon in someone’s sky and show her the way of life with your loving silvery lights during the darkness.
Debasish Mridha
Lonely moon
The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
Carl Sandburg
The moon stared at me through sprinkled nighttime stardust and I alone smile.
Jay Long
3. Moon quotes about life
Be both soft and wild. Just like the moon. Or the storm. Or the sea.
Victoria Erickson
The moon is a loyal companion.
It never leaves. It’s always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do. Every day it’s a different version of itself. Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light. The moon understands what it means to be human.
Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections.
Tahereh Mafi
I feel like the moon is a very beautiful woman. She’s in control.
Ravyn Lenae
About hope
For when I look at the moon I do not see a hostile, empty world. I see the radiant body where man has taken his first steps into a frontier that will never end.
David R. Scott, Commander Apollo 15
About magic
I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.
Mary Anne Radmacher
When we are looking at the moon, we see the purest reflection of our own beauty and magic, which is why we love the moon so much.
Debasish Mridha
Drag me to the moon, to catch a star and seize its brilliance as I’m swept up in amorphous dust.
Bradley Chicho
4. Inspirational moon quotes
Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
Anton Chekhov
May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt at being told that it is a fragment awaiting perfection.
Rabindranath Tagore
But even when the moon looks like it’s waning… it’s actually never changing shape. Don’t ever forget that.
Ai Yazawa
We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself.
Anaïs Nin
Motivational sayings
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.
Les Brown
Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.
Paul Brandt
Always remember we are under the same sky, looking at the same moon.
Maxine Lee
Positive moon quotes
Don’t worry if you’re making waves just by being yourself. The moon does it all the time.
Scott Stabile
Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that.
Coolio
The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It keeps to its course, but by its very nature, it gently influences. What other body could pull an entire ocean from shore to shore? The moon is faithful to its nature and its power is never diminished.
Deng Ming-Dao
Spiritual quotes
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
Mahatma Gandhi
There’s something enchanted about night. All those heavenly bodies, shooting stars, the crescent moon, celestial phenomenon.
Luanne Rice
Tape the sound of the moon fading at dawn. Give it to your mother to listen to when she’s in sorrow.
Yoko Ono
When the storm is over and night falls and the moon is out in all its glory and all you’re left with is the rhythm of the sea, of the waves, you know what God intended for the human race, you know what paradise is.
Harold Pinter
He could well imagine what the moon had given her: pure solitude and tranquility. That was the best thing the moon could give a person.
Haruki Murakami
The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.
Shannon L. Alder
5. Deep moon quotes
Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.
Sojourner Truth
The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.
Jean Ingelow
I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.
Gloria Vanderbilt
Your thoughts are a veil on the face of the Moon. That Moon is your heart, and those thoughts cover your heart. So let them go, just let them fall into the water.
Rumi
The wisdom of the moon is greater than the wisdom of the Earth because the moon sees the universe better than the Earth can see it.
Mehmet Murat İldan
During the day, the Sun causes wounds. And in the night, the Moon heals the wounds. The mountain waits all day for the night when his Moon will be finally bright.
Suyasha Subedi
Emotional sayings
So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you – everything makes music if you really want it to.
Giles Andreae
The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, color, and nuance.
Arthur Smith
The moon is the queen of everything. She rules the oceans, rivers, rain. When I am asked whose tears these are; I always blame the moon.
Lucille Clifton
The moon had been observing the earth close-up longer than anyone. It must have witnessed all of the phenomena occurring—and all of the acts carried out—on this earth. But the moon remained silent; it told no stories.
Haruki Murakami
We may look at the same moon, but our hearts sing different songs depending on our inner emotions and perceptions.
Debasish Mridha MD
Beauty
The moon was so beautiful that the ocean held up a mirror.
Ani DiFranco
The moon can never breathe, but it can take our breath away with the beauty of its cold, arid orb.
Munia Khan
The beautiful moon is an antidepressant. Love for her light is in every heart because she is so friendly, loving, and forgiving.
Debasish Mridha
Happiness
Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.
Henri Frederic Amiel
With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon who could not be happy?
Oscar Wilde
Don’t even try to talk to me when I’m watching the moon. That’s my moon, baby.
Wendelin Van Draanen
6. Funny moon quotes
There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
George Carlin
If I tell you there’s cheese on the moon, bring the crackers.
Tyronn Lue
The moon’s a nice place to visit, but you wouldn’t want to live there.
John M. Grunsfeld
The moon is opposing Jupiter. Don’t get involved—it’s their problem.
James H. Critchfield
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7. Short sayings about the moon
We ran as if to meet the moon.
Robert Frost
Go slowly, my lovely moon, go slowly.
Khaled Hosseini
The moon lives in the lining of your skin.
Pablo Neruda
The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand.
Frederic Lawrence Knowles
The moon fascinates us in her simplicity.
Avijeet Das
Shoot for the moon; you might get there.
Buzz Aldrin
How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon?
Toni Morrison
The moon is faithful to its nature and its power is never diminished.
Deng Ming-Dao
The moon is too close. I want to go further.
Shirley MacLaine
She and the moon could always be found playing in the darkness.
A.J. Lawless
I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either.
Alberto Caeiro
8. Famous moon quotes
It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the moon.
Galileo Galilei
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
John F. Kennedy
I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.
Albert Einstein
Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue, corn moon?
Pocahantas
From song lyrics
There is no dark side of the moon really
Matter of fact it’s all dark.
Pink Floyd, “Eclipse”
Cold hearted orb that rules the night
Removes the colors from our sight
Red is gray and yellow white
But we decide which is right
And which is an illusion.
The Moody Blues, “Nights In White Satin”
Let’s swim to the moon
Let’s climb through the tide
Surrender to the waiting worlds
That lap against our side.
The Doors, “Moonlight Drive”
Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Well we all shine on
Every one, come on.
John Lennon, “Instant Karma!”
More great moon lyrics from popular songs
Blue moon.
You saw me standing alone.
Without a dream in my heart.
Without a love of my own.
Frank Sinatra, “Blue Moon”
New moon on Monday
And a fire dance through the night.
Duran Duran, “New Moon on Monday”
If you get caught between the moon and New York city
The best that you can do
The best that you can do is fall in love.
Christopher Cross, “Lost Between the Moon and New York City”
Fly me to the moon
Let me play among the stars
And let me see what spring is like
On a Jupiter and Mars.
Frank Sinatra, “Fly Me to the Moon”
From famous authors, books, and literature
Four nights will quickly dream away the time;
And then the moon, like to a silver bow
New-bent in heaven, shall behold the night
Of our solemnities.
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
I trembled, and my heart failed within me; when, on looking up, I saw, by the light of the moon, the daemon at the casement.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
But you can’t get her there; there is no road to the moon: it is all air; and neither you nor she can fly.
Charlotte Brontë, Jayne Eyre
The moon is my mother. She is not sweet like Mary.
Her blue garments unloose small bats and owls.
Sylvia Plath
As different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.
Emily Brontë
If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression Of something beautiful, but annihilating.
Sylvia Plath
Juliet. O, swear not by the moon, th’inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circled orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
From famous poets and poetry
So, we’ll go no more a roving
So late into the night,
Though the heart be still as loving,
And the moon be still as bright.
Lord Byron
The moon, like a flower in Heaven’s high bower, with silent delight, sits and smiles on the night.
William Blake
a flower knows, when its butterfly will return,
and if the moon walks out, the sky will understand;
but now it hurts, to watch you leave so soon,
when I don’t know, if you will ever come back.
Sanober Khan
9. Moon captions for Instagram
- To the moon!
- Ruled by the moon.
- I love you to the moon and back.
- Moon watcher.
- New moon, new beginnings.
- Goodnight moon.
- Because the moon knows best.
- Living by moonlight.
- I’m a moon child.
- Fly me to the moon.
- Good night, sweet moon.
- Moon love — more than just a phase.
- Blame it on the moon.
- The moon made my night.
- Stay wild moon child.
- A new moon rising.
- The beauty of the moon.
- The moon is my loyal companion.
- Aim for the moon.
- The moon illuminates my path.
- Feeling moonstruck.
- I love the silvery moonlight
- You are my moon, my shining star, my guiding light.
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By Greg Johnson | Published 4/21/2022
