30 Short Inspirational Moon Quotes to Illuminate Your Soul

"Shoot for the Moon - even if you miss it, you will land among the stars."

- Les Brown

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

- Paul Brandt

"The Moon is the first milestone on the road to the stars."

- Arthur C. Clarke

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

- Amanda Gorman

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

- W. Clement Stone

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

- Mark Twain

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

- A. J. Lawless

"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

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

- Paul Brandt

"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

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

- Gautama Buddha

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

- K. Tolnoe

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

- Les Brown

"The moon is the first milestone on the road to the stars."

- Arthur C. Clarke

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

- Isra Al-Thibeh

"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

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

- Debasish Mridha

"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

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

- J. M. Wonderland

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

- Ai Yazawa

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

- Debasish Mridha

"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

"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

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

- Lynne Ewing

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

- Buddha

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

- Debasish Mridha

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

- Albert Einstein

"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 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

"Love you to the moon and to Saturn."

- Taylor Swift

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

- Debasish Mridha

"Don't tell me the Moon is shining. Show me the glint of light on broken glass."

- Anton Chekhov

"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

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

- Cerridwen Greenleaf

"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

"With freedom, books, flowers, and the Moon, who could not be happy?"

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Frida Kahlo

"We are all like the bright Moon; we still have our darker side."

- Khalil Gibran

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

- Scott Stabile

"If I offer you the moon on a string, will you give me a kiss, too?"

- Sarah J. Maas

"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

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

- Debasish Mridha

"Shoot for the moon; you might get there."

- Buzz Aldrin

"I am not a person who reaches for the moon as long as I have the stars."

- Gertrude Ederle

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

- Oscar Wilde

"I like being the moon to your sun."

- Nikki Giovanni

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

- Haroula Rose

"I’ll place the moon within your heart."

- David Bowie

"Let me be your moon."

- Alexandra Vasiliu

"And if I could give you the moon, I would give you the moon."

- Phoebe Bridgers

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Christopher Poindexter

"If the moon smiled, she would resemble you."

- Sylvia Plath

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

- Amanda Gorman

"At night, when the stars light up my room, I sit by myself talking to the moon, trying to get to you."

- Bruno Mars

"The one we danced to all night long, the moon like a spotlight on the lake."

- Taylor Swift

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

- Debasish Mridha

"Moon river, wider than a mile, I’m crossing you in style someday. Oh, dream maker, you heartbreaker. Wherever you’re goin’, I’m goin’ your way."

- Audrey Hepburn

"We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself."

- Anaïs Nin

"To buy a cake…to howl at the moon…to know true happiness…I am happy."

- C. JoyBell C.

"Ask for the moon: you will be surprised how often you get it."

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Frank Sinatra

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

- Billie Holiday

"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

"Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly, then your love would also change."

- William Shakespeare

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

- K. Tolnoe

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

- Arthur Smith

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

- Pablo Neruda

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

- Ravyn Lenae

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

- Tom Robbins

"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

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

- Ai Yazawa

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

- William Blake

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

- Debasish Mridha

"Stay wild, Moon child."

- Riitta Klint

"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

"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

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

- Ken Croswell

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

- Audre Lorde

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

- Hafsah Faizal

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

- Deng Ming-Dao

"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

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

- Anand Thakur

"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

"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

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

- Billie Holiday

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

- Audre Lorde

"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

"I always look up at the Moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos."

- Tom Hanks

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

- Bavo Dhooge

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

- Jay Long

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

- Victoria Erickson

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

- Scott Stabile

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

- Galileo Galilei

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

- Victoria Erickson

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

- Hafsah Faizal

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

- Ursula K. Le Guin

"If you strive for the moon, maybe you’ll get over the fence."

- James Woods

"It’s a marvelous night for a moon dance."

- Van Morrison

"Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars."

- J. R. R. Tolkien

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

- Ani DiFranco

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

- M. Wonderland

"Half moon, night time sky, seven stars, heaven’s eyes. Seven songs on seven seas, just to bring all your sweet love home to me."

- Janis Joplin

"And the moon breaks the heart of the ocean."

- Zora Neale Hurston

"And when I looked, the moon had turned to gold."

- Billie Holiday

"Blue moon, you saw me standing alone; without a dream in my heart, without a love of my own."

- Billie Holiday

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

- Carl Sandburg

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

- Gary Allan

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

- William R. Alger

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

- Munia Khan

"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

"The Moon fascinates us in her simplicity."

- Avijeet Das

"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

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

- Maxine Lee

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

- Carl Sandburg

"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 is too close. I want to go further."

- Shirley MacLaine

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

- Mark Twain

"The moon is a loyal companion."

- Tahereh Mafi

"For the Earth itself is a blossom, she says, on the star tree, pale with luminous ocean leaves."

- Rolf Jacobsen

"I’m as old as the moon and the stars, and as young as the trees and the lakes."

- Afrika Bambaataa

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

- Carl Sandburg

"It’s a supernatural delight, everybody was dancin’ in the moonlight."

- King Harvest

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

- Ravyn Lenae

"You are my Earth, to you I am just a moon."

- BTS

"We ran as if to meet the moon."

- Robert Frost

"The moon in her chariot of pearl."

- Oscar Wilde

"The sun shall not smite I by day, nor the moon by night. And everything that I do shall be upfull and right."

- Bob Marley

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

- Scott Stabile

"We are never alone. We are all wolves howling to the same moon."

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"There’s something enchanted about night. All those heavenly bodies, shooting stars, the crescent moon, celestial phenomenon."

- Luanne Rice

"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

"What would be enough to make you happy…what about the ringing of bluebells? Or a ribbon of sunshine? Or a garland of moonlight?"

- Sarah J. Maas

"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 love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected."

- Gloria Vanderbilt

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

- Rita Mae Brown

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

- George Carlin

"Remember the moon, know who she is."

- Joy Harjo

"The moon is a beautiful woman. She's in control."

- Ravyn Lenae

"Everyone is asleep. There is nothing to come between the moon and me."

- Enomoto Seifu-jo

"The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep."

- Alice Hoffman

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

- S.B.

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

- Ken Croswell

"Moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting."

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

- Gary Allen

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

- George Carlin

"And the sun and the moon sometimes argue over who will tuck me in at night."

- Hafitz

"Sometimes the light can be so hard to find. At least the moon at the window, the thieves left that behind."

- Joni Mitchell

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Isra Al-Thibeh

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

- Khaled Hosseini

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

- Langston Hughes

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

- Giles Andreae

"How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon?"

- Toni Morrison

"The moon stays beautiful with its craters. So why then are you afraid of your scars?"

- Zubair Ahsan

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

- Bradley Chicho

"I saw the crescent, you saw the whole of the moon."

- The Waterboys

"The moon’s a nice place to visit, but you wouldn’t want to live there."

- John M. Grunsfeld

"As different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire."

- Emily Brontë

"Don’t even try to talk to me when I’m watching the moon. That’s my moon, baby."

- Wendelin Van Draanen

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

- A.J. Lawless

"On the moon, we have everything."

- Shirley Jackson

"The moon casts a different face every day. Yet the moon is always the moon. It is always whole. Always reflective."

- Thomas Lloyd Qualls

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

- Anton Chekhov

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

- Tyronn Lue

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

- S.B.

"If I could ask God one thing, it would be to stop the moon. Stop the moon and make this night and your beauty last forever."

"I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos."

"Oh, how you shine with your heart full of moonlight and your soul full of stars."

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

"Don’t ask for the moon. We have the stars."

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