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Quotes About Moonlight

This morning the world by moonlight seemed to be an immemorial acquaintance I had always meant to befriend. If there was ever a chance, it had passed. Strange to say, I feel a little that way about myself.
~ Marilynne Robinson
If only she'd known then what comfort was coming, she'd have spared herself a little. You can say to yourself, I'm just a body that thinks and talks and seems to want its life, one more day of it. You don't have to know why. Well, nothing could ever change if your body didn't just keep you there not even knowing what it is you're waiting for. Not even knowing that you're waiting at all. Just there on the stoop in the moonlight licking up tears.
~ Marilynne Robinson
The clocks were striking midnight at different places all over the town as I stepped through the door of my college. The rain had cleared. Moonlight gave the grass and towers an air of unreality, as if all would be removed in the morning to make way for another scene.
~ Anthony Powell
Beyond the dark trees, Seal Rock gleamed eerily against the ocean, white as an iceberg under the moon. "Magic," she said, squeezing his arm.
~ Armistead Maupin
Far away on the path we saw Sir Henry looking back, his face white in the moonlight, his hands raised in horror, glaring helplessly at the frightful thing which was hunting him down. But that cry of pain from the hound had blown all our fears to the winds. If he was vulnerable he was mortal, and if we could wound him we could kill him. Never have I seen a man run as Holmes ran that night.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Serenades," he said, "are customarily performed under moonslight, or have fashions here changed?" "I don't know," I said. "No one's serenaded me, and as for my serenading anyone else, even if I wanted to, which I don't, my singing voice sounds like a sick crow.
~ Sherwood Smith
In the night," Mrs. Dudley said, and smiled outright. "In the dark
~ Shirley Jackson
Perladas por la luz de la luna, desnudas y puras, para él representaban, según le parecía, el modo de vida que había adoptado, tal como un templo representa un dios.
~ John Williams
Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos.
~ Elizabeth Wein
Here, also, the future was cried aloud by the wind through the rocks, so that all those who heard would shiver, and then the liquid spring song of the thrush would make all the beauty of moonlight and sunlight blend together, making it true, so true, that happiness must come again
~ Elyne Mitchell
Just when one can't take anymore, one sees the moonlight. Beauty that seems to infuse itself into the heart: I know about that.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
The night glittered brilliantly then.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
Inching one's way along a steep cliff in the dark: on reaching the highway, one breathes a sigh of relief. Just when one can't take any more, one sees the moonlight. Beauty that seems to infuse itself into the heart: I know about that.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
Just when one can't take any more, one sees the moonlight. Beauty that seems to infuse itself, into the heart: I know about that.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
To be human is to live by sunlight and moonlight, with anxiety and delight, admitting limits and transcending them, falling down and rising up.
~ Barbara Brown Taylor
To be human is to live by sunlight and moonlight, with anxiety and delight, admitting limits and transcending them, falling down and rising up. To want a life with only half of these things in it is to want half a life, shutting the other half away where it will not interfere with one's bright fantasies of the way things ought to be.
~ Barbara Brown Taylor
All in all, the moon is a truer mirror for my soul than the sun that looks the same way every day.
~ Barbara Brown Taylor
Mark Twain had written somewhere: We are all mad at night.
~ Barbara Vine
dozing on horseback smoke form the tea-fires drifts to the moon
~ Basho
The Joker Tell me something, my friend. You ever dance with the devil by the pale moonlight
~ Batman
I did not have activities in the Philippines before, but many fans recognized me and greeted me with overflowing cheers. 'Moonlight Drawn by Clouds' was said to have aired through KBS World. I didn't know that.
~ Park Bo-gum
One or two of the villagers have seen it, too, though not as clearly as he did. Old Buttermere said it was a white thing, that glided over the ground, and vanished into the shrubbery.' 'And a very good place for it to vanish, too,' said Hugo, wholly unimpressed. 'Give me a sheet, and a night without too much moonlight, and I'll engage to do the same!
~ Georgette Heyer
moonlight she saw a woman walking quietly away. Her feet did not go crunch, crunch. She walked softly in the tall beach grass.
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
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