#moonlight

I walked with my eyes on the path, but out of the corners of them I saw a man hiding behind an olive tree. He did not move as we approached, but I fell that he was watching us. As soon as we had passed I heard a scamper. Wilson, like a hunted animal, had made for safely. That was the last I ever saw of him. He died last year. He had endured that life for six years. He was found one morning on the mountainside lying quite peacefully as though he had died in his sleep. From where he lay he had been able to see those two great rocks called the Faraglioni which stand out of the sea. It was full moon and he must have gone to see them by moonlight. Perhaps he died of the beauty of that sight... ---The Lotus Eater ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#inspiring #moonlight #mountain #peace #beauty

In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#light #moonlight #sadness #spirit #life

Just a kiss on your lips in the moonlight just a touch in the fire burning so bright no I don't wanna mess this thing up I don't wanna push too far just a shot in the dark that you just might be the one I've been waiting for my whole life but baby I'm alright with just a kiss goodnight ↗

— Lady Antebellum

#moonlight #life

The wastes of snow on the hill were ghostly in the moonlight. The stars were piercingly bright. ↗

— Maud Hart Lovelace

#hills #moonlight #nature #snow #stars

He loved her without desperation and needs and wants. With his naked soul, he loved her, and dreamt of her clothed in white dancing beneath the moonlight as the stars grew jealous of the way she moved. ↗

— Christopher Poindexter

#love #moonlight #soul #stars #love

Moonlight is sculpture. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#sculpture

I moonlight as a singer. ↗

— Bryan Adams

#moonlight #singer

Attraction is explained as a function of reincarnation: people who knew each other in past lives are helpless in the face of an emotion which has passed, untouched, through bodily death. Who wouldn’t be? ↗

— Brenda Walker

#reading-by-moonlight #death

I now resolved to go to bed early, with a firm purpose of also rising early the next day to revisit this charming walk; for I thought to myself, I have now seen this temple of the modern world imperfectly; I have seen it only by moonlight. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#bed #charming #day #early #firm

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. ↗

— Jean Paul

#gloomy #life #moonlight #night