Moonlight Quotes

• Formerly when a man worked ten hours a day, it was called economic slavery; nowadays it is called moonlighting.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Slavery
  • Worked
  • Moonlight

• Far away on the path we saw Sir Henry looking back, his face white in the moonlight, his hands raised in horror, glaring helplessly at the frightful thing which was hunting him down. But that cry of pain from the hound had blown all our fears to the winds. If he was vulnerable he was mortal, and if we could wound him we could kill him. Never have I seen a man run as Holmes ran that night.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Hands
  • Horror
  • Moonlight

• Are you happy?" she Clarisse said. "Am I what?" he Montag cried. But she was gone- running in the moonlight. Her front door shut gently.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Running
  • Doors
  • Gone

• How can the mind be so imperfect?" she says with a smile. I look at my hands. Bathed in the moonlight, they seem like statues, proportioned to no purpose. "It may well be imperfect," I say, "but it leaves traces. And we can follow those traces, like footsteps in the snow." "Where do the lead?" "To oneself," I answer. "That's where the mind is. Without the mind, nothing leads anywhere." I look up. The winter moon is brilliant, over the Town, above the Wall. "Not one thing is your fault," I comfort her.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Mind
  • Purpose
  • Lead

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