Moon Influence Quotes

Waning moons their settled periods keep, to swell the billows and ferment the deep.

The jungle which is presided over by Kudu, the sun, is a very different jungle from that of Goro, the moon. The diurnal jungle has its own aspect--its own lights and shades, its own birds, its own blooms, its own beasts ... The lights and shades of the nocturnal jungle are as different as one might imagine the lights and shades of another world to differ from those of our world.

During one new moon at perigee, I stood on high ground, watching salt ponds overflow, cover the beach, and meet the ocean. Because the moon was invisible, the water was black as it drowned the sand, and the event felt primal - which in fact it was, because it was nature.

What is there in thee, Moon! That thou should'st move My heart so potently?

We exist with a wind whispering inside and our moon flexing. Amid the ducts, inside the basilica of bones.

The moon invented natural rhythm. Civilization uninvented it.

The primitive in each of us climbs closer to the surface during the night, for the moon sings to it, and the cold void between the stars speaks its language. To that savage self, evil can look lovely in too little light.

Numerous observations made upon fevers, somnambulisms, and other human maladies, seem to prove that the moon does exercise some mysterious influence upon man.

There are essential and inessential insanities. The later are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

The stars up close to the moon were pale; they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon