Rufus Wainwright Quotes

Sun and moon, sun and moon, time goes.

Just like the moon, I'll step aside, and let your sun shine while I follow behind.

In my nothing, you were everything, to me.

I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting - she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past the edge of your eye: startling, luminous, lovely... gone.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

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

If you win all the time, you lose the drama in life. To make the happy moments happy, you need the sad moments too.

If all we remember are good things, then happiness is our baseline, and there's no longer happiness. We need other feelings in order to appreciate others.

I love seeing people smiling, dancing. There's enough sadness in the world, man.

I've had to accept that - that everyone cannot love me. Because when there's love, there's hate. When there's light, there's dark. But it was really hard to accept as an artist that there's a lot of people that hate me, but on the other side, there are many more people who love me. I think everyone goes through that.

While my friend always spoke about the sun, I kept speaking about the clouds, until one day I realized that it was the sun that allowed me to see the clouds.

It was like noticing the sun. You couldn't help but see it, to turn to face the heat of it, to bask in the glory of it. But often when the sun is high in the sky, the moon is up there, too. A dim memory of what she will be in the night, but there, nonetheless, dim and misty, hard and white. At night, there is only the moon, the sun is nowhere to be seen. There are no distractions when the moon rules the sky.

The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.

I'll be looking at the moon, but I'll be seeing you.

I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.

When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.

For forty years I have been married to one of the greatest women the world has ever produced. All I could produce - small as it may be - was love and loyalty.

Take your love and your pleasure as you find it. Do not worry so much of the future that you let today pass you by. you are happy. need you know more than that?

The Sun, the stars and the seasons as they pass, some can gaze upon these with no strain of fear.

Each of us needs what nature gives us, when nature gives us.

A little misery, at times, makes one appreciate happiness more.

Overhead, the two moons worked together to bathe the world in a strange light.

We're both looking at the same moon, in the same world. We're connected to reality by the same line. All I have to do is quietly draw it towards me.