50+ Inspirational Quotes About the Moon to Illuminate Your Soul

"Be the Moon and inspire people, even when you're far from full."

- K. Tolnoe

"Aim for the Moon. If you miss, you may hit a star."

- W. Clement Stone

"God put the Moon in the sky to remind us that our darkest moments lead to our brightest."

- Lynne Ewing

"I still say, 'Shoot for the moon; you might get there.'"

- Buzz Aldrin

"Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars."

- Les Brown

"Everyone is a Moon and has a dark side, which he never shows to anybody."

- Mark Twain

"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 Scott

"I can feel the Moon's love for the Earth in my soul when its magical silent silvery light touches my heart."

- Debasish Mridha

"Like the Moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine."

- Gautama Buddha

"The Moon is faithful to its nature, and its power is never diminished."

- Deng Ming-Dao

"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the Moon, and the truth."

- Buddha

"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

"Don't worry if you're making waves just by being yourself. The Moon does it all the time."

- Scott Stabile

"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

"Shoot for the Moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars."

- Les Brown

"I like to think that the moon is there, even if I am not looking at it."

- Albert Einstein

"Don’t tell me the sky is the limit when there are footprints on the Moon."

- Paul Brandt

"I love you to the moon and back."

- Sam McBratney

"Let the moon teach you the art of being beautiful and lonely at the same time."

- Anand Thakur

"It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon."

- Galileo Galilei

"Be the moon and inspire people, even when you’re far from full."

- K. Tolnoe

"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth."

- Buddha

"Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine."

- Gautama Buddha

"God put the moon in the sky to remind us that our darkest moments lead to our brightest."

- Lynne Ewing

"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

"Just as we chose to go to the moon, we know it’s never too soon to choose hope."

- Amanda Gorman

"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 Scott

"Go further than you planned. Ask for the moon. You will be surprised how often you get it."

- Paulo Coelho

"The moon is beautiful only when the mind is seeking beauty and the heart is loving."

- Debasish Mridha

"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

"Just like moons and like suns, with the certainty of tides, just like hopes springing high, still I’ll rise."

- Maya Angelou

"Be both soft and wild. Just like the moon. Or the storm. Or the sea."

- Victoria Erickson

"Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars."

- J. R. R. Tolkien

"I’m the type of woman that if I want the Moon, I’ll get it down myself."

- Frida Kahlo

"Let the Moon teach you the art of being beautiful and lonely at the same time."

- Anand Thakur

"Stay wild, Moon child."

- Riitta Klint

"But even when the Moon looks like it's waning... it's actually never changing shape. Don't ever forget that."

- Ai Yazawa

"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 beautiful Moon is an antidepressant. Love for her light is in every heart because she is so friendly, loving, and forgiving."

- Debasish Mridha

"The Moon is beautiful only when the mind is seeking beauty and the heart is loving."

- Debasish Mridha

"I like to think that the Moon is there, even if I am not looking at it."

- Albert Einstein

"The Sun loves the Moon so much that he dies every night to let her breathe, and in return, she reflects his love."

- Jeffrey Fry

"I am the sun and Moon and forever hungry, the sharpened edge where day and night shall meet and not be one."

- Audre Lorde

"From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go."

- Jim Lovell

"The Moon is the reflection of your heart, and Moonlight is the twinkle of your love."

- Debasish Mridha

"Darling, the Moon is still the Moon in all of its phases."

- Isra Al-Thibeh

"The Moon affects people in other ways, for a beautiful crescent suspended in a twilit sky can stir our hearts."

- Ken Croswell

"She held the Moon the way she held her own heart, as if it was the only light that could guide her through the darkest nights."

- Chrissie Pinney

"The Moon can never breathe, but it can take our breath away with the beauty of its cold, arid orb."

- Munia Khan

"Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I'm on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding - yet beautiful - Sea of Tranquility. I could see our shining blue planet Earth poised in the darkness of space."

- Buzz Aldrin

"The Moon is queen of everything. She rules the oceans, rivers, rain. When I am asked whose tears these are; I always blame the Moon."

- Lucille Clifton

"Always remember we are under the same sky, looking at the same Moon."

- Maxine Lee

"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 Ildan

"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

"You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos."

- Tom Hanks

"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."

- Anton Chekhov

"If the Moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression. Of something beautiful but annihilating. Both of you are great light borrowers."

- Sylvia Plath

"The new Moon is an auspicious time for a fresh start."

- Cerridwen Greenleaf

"The Sun watches what I do, but the Moon knows all my secrets."

- J. M. Wonderland

"The Moon lives in the lining of your skin."

- Pablo Neruda

"The Moon just reflects the sunlight. Stars are the ones that can shine by themselves like the Sun. The Moon just sponges off the Sun and shines."

- Hong Jung-Eun

"The proper phase of the Moon is essential for spellcraft. The waning Moon is the time to wind down any personal challenges and see them to an end."

- Cerridwen Greenleaf

"The Moon is our nearest neighbor in space - only about a quarter of a million miles away - and is our faithful companion, staying together with us as we journey around the Sun."

- Patrick Moore

"It's the Moon that moves me. The sunlight makes everything so obvious."

- Bavo Dhooge

"Stay wild, moon child."

- Riitta Klint

"The moon is friend for the lonesome to talk to."

- Carl Sandburg

"With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy."

- Oscar Wilde

"You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty."

- Edgar Mitchell

"In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle it must never outstep, we shall one day travel to the moon, the planets, and the stars, with the same facility, rapidity, and certainty as we now make the voyage from Liverpool to New York!"

- Jules Verne

"What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous."

- Thomas Merton

"Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun."

- John Lennon

"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

"The Moon, like a flower in Heaven's high bower, with silent delight, sits and smiles on the night."

- William Blake

"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

"The Moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one Moon."

- Jean Ingelow

"And he beholds the Moon like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light."

- Gustave Flaubert

"The Moon fascinates us in her simplicity."

- Avijeet Das

"What a little Moonlight can do. Wait a while ‘till a little Moonbeam comes peepin' through."

- Billie Holiday

"Don’t worry if you’re making waves just by being yourself. The moon does it all the time."

- Scott Stabile

"It’s the moon that moves me. The sunlight makes everything so obvious."

- Bavo Dhooge

"If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression. Of something beautiful, but annihilating. Both of you are great light borrowers."

- Sylvia Plath

"Love me like the moon intended, all the way through the darkness."

- A.J. Lawless

"The moon is the reflection of your heart, and moonlight is the twinkle of your love."

- Debasish Mridha

"Cause I never knew, I never knew you could hold moonlight in your hands ‘til the night I held you. You are my moonlight."

- Ariana Grande

"Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: — you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars."

- e.e. Cummings

"Always remember we are under the same sky, looking at the same moon."

- Maxine Lee

"The sun loves the moon so much that he dies every night to let her breathe, and in return, she reflects his love."

- Jeffrey Fry

"She held the moon the way she held her own heart, as if it was the only light that could guide her through the darkest nights."

- Chrissie Pinney

"Moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting."

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

"The moon, like a flower in heaven’s high bower, With silent delight sits and smiles on the night."

- William Blake

"We ran as if to meet the moon."

- Robert Frost

"Everyone is a Moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody."

- Mark Twain

"There was a reason that she was so romantic about the Moon. It never asked her questions or begged for the answers nor did she ever have to prove herself to it. It was always just there—breathing, shining, and in ways most humans can’t understand: listening."

- Christopher Poindexter

"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

"The Moon can only fill up once it becomes empty. And it can only shine in all its glory once it’s gone through its darkest expression. It doesn’t berate its darkness or wish for it to be any other way (as far as we know)."

- Carl Jung

"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

"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

"Before the moon I am, what a woman is, a woman of power."

- Ursula K. Le Guin

"The moon fascinates us in her simplicity."

- Avijeet Das

"So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you. Everything makes music if you really want it to."

- Giles Andreae

"Well it’s a marvelous night for a moondance, with the stars up above in the skies. A wonderful night to make romance ‘neath the cover of October skies."

- Van Morrison

"But even when the moon looks like it’s waning…it’s actually never changing shape. Don’t ever forget that."

- Ai Yazawa

"In this city by the sea, walk the memories: just me and the lavender moon. She knows my heart belongs to you."

- Haroula Rose

"The sun watches what I do, but the moon knows all my secrets."

- M. Wonderland

"Will this be moon love, nothing but moon love? Will you be gone when the dawn comes stealing through?"

- Frank Sinatra

"If he’s the darkness, then you’re his moon, and the moon wasn’t made to be caged."

- Hafsah Faizal

"The moon is queen of everything. She rules the oceans, rivers, rain. When I am asked whose tears these are; I always blame the moon."

- Lucille Clifton

"I am the sun and moon and forever hungry, the sharpened edge where day and night shall meet and not be one."

- Audre Lorde

"Darling, the moon is still the moon in all of its phases."

- Isra Al-Thibeh

"The moon was so beautiful that the ocean held up a mirror."

- Ani DiFranco

"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

"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 full moon — the mandala of the sky."

- Tom Robbins

"The moon was reigning all over their world, glowing its full splendor to all those willing to look up."

- Irina Serban

"She and the Moon could always be found playing in the darkness."

- A.J. Lawless

"My darling, you can’t see it, can you? How like the moon you are. Both of you so timid in yourselves; hiding pieces from the world. Then, there are those rare moments when you both are full, and it becomes hard to look away."

- Alexandria Drzemiecki

"I will never be a morning person, for the moon and I are much too in love."

- Christopher Poindexter

"Love you to the moon and to Saturn."

- Taylor Swift

"Don’t compare her to sunshine and roses when she’s clearly orchids and moonlight."

- Melody Lee

"Go slowly, my lovely moon, go slowly."

- Khaled Hosseini

"The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to."

- Carl Sandburg

"They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon."

- Bobby Sands

"I've never seen a moon in the sky that, if it didn't take my breath away, at least misplaced it for a moment."

- Colin Farrell

"The Moon is almost as obvious as the Sun. Clouds permitting, we can see it in the evening sky nearly half the time."

- David A. Rothery

"Humans have been well aware of the Moon for as far back as records go, but surely before, the Moon must often have been a welcome source of illumination at night."

- David A. Rothery

"We came all this way to explore the moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth."

- William Anders

"In my opinion, future space exploration will require us to inhabit the moon, initially, and later Mars. This is a humongous task for any one nation to carry out."

- Rakesh Sharma

"We have spent billions to go to the moon - we go to this lesser satellite called the moon and say we are in space, but we are in space right now; we just don't feel ourselves to be in space. Some forms of art and some forms of spirituality do give us that sense."

- James Turrell

"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands."

- Havelock Ellis

"The Moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, color, and nuance."

- Arthur Smith

"Why should man's first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure?"

- John F. Kennedy

"The Moon has been long linked to madness and lunacy. Even today, people sometimes superstitiously blame the Moon, especially the full Moon."

- Ken Croswell

"The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance."

- Arthur Smith

"Malaria is a disease that kills one to three million people a year. 300 to 500 million cases are reported. It's estimated that Africa loses about 13 billion dollars a year to the disease. Five dollars can save a life. We can send people to the moon; we can see if there's life on Mars - why can't we get five-dollar nets to 500 million people?"

- Jacqueline Novogratz

"The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them."

- Confucius

"The Moon is a silver pin-head vast that holds Heaven's tent-hangings fast."

- William R. Alger

"Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides."

- Rita Mae Brown

"The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them."

- Henry David Thoreau

"I often write about the moon, and more often than not, it is to symbolise a person, or a quality."

- Gulzar

"I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present."

- Anne Lamott

"The Sun, Moon and Stars are there to guide us."

- Dennis Banks

"Modern science says: 'The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.' From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom."

- Nikola Tesla

"The moon stared at me through sprinkled nighttime stardust and I alone smile."

- Jay Long

"The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon."

- Jean Ingelow

"Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."

- Anton Chekhov

"What a little moonlight can do. Wait a while ‘till a little moonbeam comes peepin’ through."

- Billie Holiday

"Drag me to the moon, to catch a star and seize its brilliance as I’m swept up in amorphous dust."

- Bradley Chicho

"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

"If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out."

- William Blake

"You can send women to the Moon or Mars later. First, provide sanitary pads to them."

- Arunachalam Muruganantham

"You can be the Moon and still be jealous of the stars."

- Gary Allan

"There are nights when the wolves are silent, and only the Moon howls."

- George Carlin

"The full Moon - the mandala of the sky."

- Tom Robbins

"There is nothing you can see that is not a Bashoflower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon."

- Matsuo Basho

"There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls."

- George Carlin

"We've got a thing called the 'tall poppy syndrome' in New Zealand, where if anyone is doing really well, it's quite common to try and bring them down - like, cut them down and say, 'You've been to the moon? So what? I mean, plenty of people have been to the moon.'"

- Taika Waititi

"If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me?"

- Karen Blixen

"It's that great feeling, like the first man on the moon, the first man to run a mile in under four minutes. And now, I'm the first to deadlift half a ton. It's history, and I'm very proud to be a part of it."

- Eddie Hall

"The moon is the accomplice of all things related to the heart."

- Walter Mercado

"Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock."

- Anaxagoras

"I feel like the moon is a very beautiful woman. She's in control."

- Ravyn Lenae

"The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money."

- Plautus

"Sooner and later you will see great changes made, dreadful horrors and vengeances. For as the Moon is thus led by its angel, the heavens draw near to the Balance."

- Nostradamus

"I am big into astrology. My best friend in the whole wide world, Justin, got me hooked on astrology, when I was in high school. I am a Capricorn, but Im a Gemini rising and a Pisces moon."

- Renee Rapp

"You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!"

- Keith Richards

"Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures."

- M. F. K. Fisher

"I haven't shaken my fists at the moon."

- Ian Dury

"Cheap little rhymes, a cheap little tune, are sometimes as dangerous as a sliver of the moon."

- Langston Hughes

"The Moon dances with me the way the sun never will."

- S.B.

"If I tell you there's cheese on the moon, bring the crackers."

- Tyronn Lue

"The Moon is magic for the soul and light for the senses."

"When the Moon is not full, the stars shine more brightly."