Moon Rise Quotes:

Home is where you dance with others, and dancing is life.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.512, Simon and Schuster

topic: Home, Dancing, Moon Rise

Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four, five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless.

- Paul Bowles

source: Paul Bowles (1979). “Collected stories, 1939-1976”

topic: Life, Time, Moon, Moon Rise, Life Being Short

And he wrote, "When the moon rises tonight think of me and I'll think of you.

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

topic: Moon, Thinking, Tonight, Moon Rise

Home is watching the moon rise over the open, sleeping land and having someone you can call to the window, so you can look together. Home is where you dance with others, and dancing is life.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.512, Simon and Schuster

topic: Home, Sleep, Moon, Moon Rise

Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times. And a very small number really.

- Brandon Lee

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Life, Thinking, Numbers, Moon Rise

So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.

- Zora Neale Hurston

topic: Moon, Amber, Earth, Moon Rise, Porch

Who says you cannot hold the moon in your hand? Tonight when the stars come out and the moon rises in the velvet sky, look outside your window, then raise your hand and position your fingers around the disk of light. There you go . . . That was easy!

- Vera Nazarian

topic: Stars, Moon, Light, Moon Rise, Aim High

When you fall in love with a work of art, you’d die to meet the artist. I am a student of the galleries of Pacific sunsets, full moon rises on the ocean, the clouds from an airplane, autumn forests in Raleigh, first fallen snows. And I’m dying to meet the artist.

- Yasmin Mogahed

topic: Falling In Love, Art, Ocean, Moon Rise, Raleigh

God, how pointless and empty the world is! Days filled with cheap and tarnished moments succeed each other, restless and haunted nights follow in bitter routine: the sun shines without brightness, and the moon rises without light. My heart has the taste of ashes, and my throat is tight and weary with weeping. What is a lost soul? It is one that has turned from its true path and is groping in the darkness of remembered ways—

- Malcolm Lowry

source: Malcolm Lowry (2015). “The 1940 Under the Volcano: A Critical Edition”, p.306, University of Ottawa Press

topic: Heart, Moon, Night, Moon Rise

I have seen the glories of art and architecture, and mountain and river; I have seen the sunset on the Jungfrau, and the full moon rise over Mont Blanc; but the fairest vision on which these eyes ever looked was the flag of my country in a foreign land. Beautiful as a flower to those who hate it, terrible as a meteor to those who hate it, it is the symbol of the power and glory, and the honor, of fifty million Americans.

- George Frisbie Hoar

topic: Beautiful, Country, Art, Meteors, Moon Rise

Maybe there's a whole other universe where a square moon rises in the sky, and the stars laugh in cold voices, and some of the triangles have four sides, and some have five, and some have five raised to the fifth power of sides. In this universe there might grow roses which sing. Everything leads to everything.

- Stephen King

topic: Stars, Moon, Sky, Moon Rise

The sweetness of dogs (fifteen) What do you say, Percy? I am thinking of sitting out on the sand to watch the moon rise. Full tonight. So we go and the moon rises, so beautiful it makes me shudder, makes me think about time and space, makes me take measure of myself: one iota pondering heaven. Thus we sit, I thinking how grateful I am for the moon’s perfect beauty and also, oh! How rich it is to love the world. Percy, meanwhile, leans against me and gazes up into my face. As though I were his perfect moon.

- Mary Oliver

topic: Beautiful, Dog, Grateful, Moon Rise, Perfect Beauty

But as surely as the moon rises and the sun sets, depravity passes down through the ages, because there is always a gap between who we are and who we should be, and our parents, molested by regret, conceive us under the false hope that we will be better than them, and everything they do, every hug and blow, only makes certain that we never will be.

- Chris Adrian

topic: Regret, Blow, Moon, Depravity, False Hope

When I think of mystery, I don't think about myself. I think of the universe, like why does the moon rise when the sun falls? Caterpillars turn into butterflies? I really haven't remained a recluse.

- Bob Dylan

source: "Bob Dylan Not Like a Rolling Stone Interview". "Spin" Magazine Interview with Scott Cohen, www.interferenza.com. December 1985.

topic: Fall, Butterfly, Thinking, Recluse, Moon Rise

I love to watch the fine mist of the night come on, The windows and the stars illumined, one by one, The rivers of dark smoke pour upward lazily, And the moon rise and turn them silver. I shall see The springs, the summers, and the autumns slowly pass; And when old Winter puts his blank face to the glass, I shall close all my shutters, pull the curtains tight, And build me stately palaces by candlelight.

- Charles Baudelaire

topic: Summer, Stars, Spring, Shutters, Moon Rise

The full moon rises. The fog clings to the lowest branches of the spruce trees. The man steps out of the darkest corner of the forest and finds himself transformed into... A monkey? I think not.

- Garth Stein

topic: Moon, Men, Thinking, Moon Rise

There is a Precious Mountain Even the Seven Treasures cannot compare A cold moon rises through the pines Layer upon layer of bright clouds How many towering peaks? How many wandering miles? The valley streams run clear Happiness forever!

- Hanshan

topic: Running, Moon, Clouds, Moon Rise

The light was leaving in the west it was blue The children's laughter sang and skipping just like the stones they threw the voices echoed across the way its getting late It was just another night with the sun set and the moon rise not so far behind to give us just enough light to lay down underneath the stars listen to papas translations of the stories across the sky we drew our own constellations

- Jack Johnson

topic: Stars, Laughter, Children, Moon Rise, Sun Set