Moon Quotes

"Ever since I was a kid, I have loved the Moon. It's always there and continues to inspire humanity."

"The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to."

Carl Sandburg

"Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I'm on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding – yet beautiful – Sea of Tranquility."

Buzz Aldrin

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

Anaxagoras

"What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery."

Thomas Merton

"We've gotta reinvest in space travel. We should've never left the moon."

Ray Bradbury

"You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos."

Tom Hanks

"We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult."

Alan Bean

“Art thou pale for weariness of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth?”

Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Magnificent desolation.”

Buzz Aldrin