75 Magical, Mysterious Quotes About the Moon

Of all of our planet's heavenly buddies, none holds quite the fascination for us tiny Earthlings as the hot, silvery satellite that slides each night across our star-filled skies. Whether appearing as a shy little sliver, or a great, glowing globe, la bella luna in all its glorious phases has long been used as imagery in everything from love songs to romantic movies (helloooo Moonstruck!) Just take a gander at our rundown of the 75 most magnificent Moon quotes, if you doubt how inspirational all that lunar loveliness has proven for painters, poets and pop stars, not to mention philosophers and one very notable physicist, too.

Below, you'll find meaningful, beautifully-worded tributes to the Moon by contemporary luminaries including Taylor Swift, Les Brown, and Amanda Gorman, as well as renowned figures from history like Sojourner Truth, J. R. R. Tolkien, and even Frank Sinatra. In need of a pretty bit of poetry to whisper to your love under the moonlight? You might want to opt for e.e. Cummings' swoon-worthy composition, "Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: — you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars." Or, if you're looking for the perfect Instagram caption for your next alluring lunar snap, perhaps consider this bit of encouraging wisdom from Gautama Buddha: "Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine."

So read on for these and more enlightening lunar quotes— we guarantee you'll be over the moon about them!

Best Moon Quotes

1. "Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine." —Gautama Buddha

2. "It's the moon that moves me. The sunlight makes everything so obvious." —Bavo Dhooge

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

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

5. "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

6. "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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. "Shoot for the Moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars." —Les Brown

Romantic Moon Quotes

1. "Will this be moon love, nothing but moon love? Will you be gone when the dawn comes stealing through?" —Frank Sinatra

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

3. "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

4. "Don't compare her to sunshine and roses when she's clearly orchids and moonlight." —Melody Lee

5. "Love me like the moon intended, all the way through the darkness." —A.J. Lawless

6. "The moon is the reflection of your heart, and moonlight is the twinkle of your love." —Debasish Mridha

7. "I love you to the moon and back." —Sam McBratney

8. "Love you to the moon and to Saturn." —Taylor Swift

9. "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

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

11. "Always remember we are under the same sky, looking at the same moon." —Maxine Lee

12. "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

13. "She and the Moon could always be found playing in the darkness." —A.J. Lawless

14. "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

15. "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

Beautiful Moon Quotes

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

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

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

4. "Be both soft and wild. Just like the moon. Or the storm. Or the sea." —Victoria Erickson

5. "Moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting." —Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

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

8. "The moon was so beautiful that the ocean held up a mirror." —Ani DiFranco

9. "The Moon dances with me the way the sun never will." —S.B.

10. "The moon stared at me through sprinkled nighttime stardust and I alone smile." —Jay Long

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

12. "We ran as if to meet the moon." —Robert Frost

13. "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

14. "The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon." —Jean Ingelow

15. "The moon is beautiful only when the mind is seeking beauty and the heart is loving." —Debasish Mridha

Meaningful Moon Quotes

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

2. "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

3. "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

4. "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. "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

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

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

8. "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

9. "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

10. "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

11. "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

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

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

14. "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

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

Short Moon Quotes

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

2. "Before the moon I am, what a woman is, a woman of power." —Ursula K. Le Guin

3. "It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon." —Galileo Galilei

4. "The moon fascinates us in her simplicity." —Avijeet Das

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

6. "Darling, the moon is still the moon in all of its phases." —Isra Al-Thibeh

7. "The full moon — the mandala of the sky." —Tom Robbins

8. "Stay wild, moon child." —Riitta Klint

9. "Go slowly, my lovely moon, go slowly." —Khaled Hosseini

10. "The new Moon is an auspicious time for a fresh start." —Cerridwen Greenleaf

11. "The moon is friend for the lonesome to talk to." —Carl Sandburg

12. "Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars." —J. R. R. Tolkien

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

14. "There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls." —George Carlin

15. "With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?" —Oscar Wilde

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