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A Trip to the Moon

A Trip to the Moon ( French : Le Voyage dans la Lune ) is a 1902 French silent film and the best-known of the hundreds of films made by director Georges Méliès . Named the 84th greatest film of the 20th century by The Village Voice , it is widely regarded as the earliest example of the science fiction film genre and, more generally, as one of the most influential films in cinema history. The film follows a group of astronomers who travel to the moon in a cannon-propelled capsule, explore the moon's surface, escape from an underground group of Selenites (Lunar inhabitants), and return with a splashdown to Earth with a captive Selenite.

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Quote from the film [ edit ]

Latin phrase meaning " Work conquers all ."
Phrase appears on the base of a commemorative statue of Professor Barbenfouillis.
"Steady work overcame all things."

Quotes about the film [ edit ]

Richard Abel , "The Cinema of Attractions, 1896–1904," Ch. 3 of The Ciné Goes to Town: French Cinema 1896–1914 (Updated and Expanded Edition, Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1994), p. 71.
Richard Abel , "The Cinema of Attractions, 1896–1904," Ch. 3 of The Ciné Goes to Town: French Cinema 1896–1914 (Updated and Expanded Edition, Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1994), p. 72.
Elizabeth Ezra , "Méliès does tricks," Ch. 1 of George Méliès (Manchester, U. K.: Manchester University Press, 2000), p. 33.
Elizabeth Ezra , "Imaginary voyages," Ch. 4 of George Méliès (Manchester, U. K.: Manchester University Press, 2000), p. 120.
Elizabeth Ezra , "Imaginary voyages," Ch. 4 of George Méliès (Manchester, U. K.: Manchester University Press, 2000), pp. 125–126.
Carolyn Jess-Cooke , Film Sequels (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009).
Siegfried Kracauer , "Basic Concepts," Ch. 2 of Theory of Film: The Redemption of Physical Reality (Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1997; orig. 1960), p. 33.

A great number of French, English and American manufacturers of films who are searching for novelties, but lack the ingenuity to produce them, have found it easier and more economical to advertise their poor copies as their own original conceptions. This accounts for the simultaneous appearance in several issues of a well known New York paper of advertisements of the celebrated Trip to the Moon by four or five different concerns, each pretending to be its creator. All these pretensions are false. The Trip to the Moon as well as Gulliver's Travels , The Astronomer's Dream , Cincerella , Red Riding Hood , Blue Beard , Joan of Arc Christmas Dream etc., are the personal creations of Mr. George Melies, who himself conceived the ideas, painted the accessories and acted on the stage.

In opening a factory and offices in New York we are prepared and determined energetically to pursue all counterfeiters and pirates. We will not speak twice; we will act.

Gaston Méliès , "Caution," Catalogue of the Star Film Company (1902).
Charles R. Redmond , Public Affairs Officer, Office of Space Flight, letter to David Levy (25 February 1985).

Cast [ edit ]

Georges Méliès — Professor Barbenfouillis
Bleuette Bernon — Phoebe (the lady on the crescent moon)
François Lallement — the officer of the marines
Henri Delannoy — the captain of the rocket
Jules-Eugène Legris — the parade leader
Victor André, Delpierre, Farjaux, Kelm, and Brunnet — the astronomers

External links [ edit ]

A Trip to the Moon quotes at the Internet Movie Database
A Trip to the Moon at Allmovie
A Trip to the Moon at Rotten Tomatoes
Was the NASA splash down inspired by Georges Méliès? — A letter to NASA
The hand-colored, restored version of A Trip to the Moon on Hulu
A Trip to the Moon complete film on YouTube

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The Legacy of ‘A Trip to the Moon’

Arguably, cinema peaked immediately with the pure nonfiction works of the Lumière brothers and the fantastical films of Georges Méliès . The latter, a former stage illusionist, gave us hundreds of magical works that remain the obvious forebears of much of today’s genre cinema and special-effects spectacle.

His most famous film is the 1902 short A Trip to the Moon , which was inspired by the fictions of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells and depicts — as the title makes perfectly clear — a lunar mission. Its image of a rocket crashing into the eyes of an actor portraying the Man in the Moon is one of the most iconic in movies.

As such a significant work, despite not being the filmmaker’s first foray into Moon-based science fictions or even representing the lunar body anthropomorphically, A Trip to the Moon has been a huge influence on and inspiration to all kinds entertainments and practices over the course of nearly 120 years.

Here are the most notable movies, songs, and historical effects that comprise the legacy of A Trip to the Moon :

Film Piracy

Despite having made one (or more) of the most famous and iconic movies of all time, Méliès was ultimately not a financially successful filmmaker. Though he would continue producing motion pictures for another 20-plus years, A Trip to the Moon was a major loss for him and his company.

At the time, the film was his most ambitious and therefore most expensive. It was also his most popular, and he hoped to make a ton of money off its esteem. Unfortunately, while it was a huge hit in America, Méliès did not profit much from the export due to rampant film piracy.

Unlike the piracy that we have today, the theft of intellectual property in the early 1900s was done mostly by major businesses. The Edison Manufacturing Company, Vitagraph, Biograph, and others illegally made copies of A Trip to the Moon for distribution in the US through the years.

Méliès quickly set up an office in the States to stop the piracy of his films and secure American patents, but it was too late for many of his titles. And thanks to further bullying practices of Thomas Edison , the visionary French filmmaker was constantly losing money in the industry he helped pioneer.

Another way to get around paying for Méliès’ film — and this was something also done often back then — was to make your own. While Edison and others made copies of A Trip to the Moon by producing new negatives of prints they bought, Spanish director Segundo de Chomón copied the film by helming a nearly shot-for-shot remake.

Excursion to the Moon , released in 1908, has enough differences to not mistake it for the original — the face in the Moon, in particular, is a major giveaway, as is the way the rocketship crashes into its mouth rather than its eye — but it’s similar enough that as an unauthorized redo there’s definitely a case to make of its infringement. Watch it below.

It’s not as if Chomón was a hack. This practice was just the early 20th-century version of everyone making Star Wars ripoffs in the early ’80s. It’s just that Pathé wanted something nearly identical to the real thing and got the guy considered the Spanish Méliès to do it. It’s like if they got Douglas Trumbull, Stanley Donen, or Mike Hodges to make Star Wars wannabes. Oh right, that all happened.

The Music Video

Back in the ’80s and ’90s, music videos were the perfect bridge between film school and movie career, not just for the experience but also to show off familiarity with film history. For Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, though they’d been out of school for many years, represent that transition very well with their 1996 video for Smashing Pumpkins’ “Tonight, Tonight.”

Originally, the couple had wanted to pay homage to Busby Berkeley musical numbers with their take on the song, but that had just been done in another video. So, inspired by the art on the album cover for Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness , on which the song appears, Dayton and Faris decided to pay tribute to Méliès with essentially a remake of A Trip to the Moon .

The video was a huge hit, winning many awards from MTV and earning a Grammy nomination, and through its heavy airplay introduced tons of viewers to such imagery as the iconic face in the moon, faces in stars, bouncing aliens, and bullet-like rocketship (though the humans — yes, those are SpongeBob SquarePants stars Tom Kenny and Jill Talley) arrive by space zeppelin.

The video concludes with a more elaborate underwater sequence than is found in A Trip to the Moon , however, clearly inspired more by Méliès’ The Mermaid and Under the Seas . Surprisingly, after Dayton and Faris became best known for the “Tonight, Tonight” video, the filmmaking duo did not go on to make sci-fi/fantasy films, but rather dramas such as Little Miss Sunshine .

The Reenactment

The same month as the debut of the “Tonight, Tonight” video saw the broadcast of the final part of HBO’s miniseries From Earth to the Moon , which chronicles the history of the Apollo program. Titled “Le Voyage Dans La Lune” (the French name for the film), this 12th installment of the program deals with the final trip to the Moon (Apollo 17) as well as the making of A Trip to the Moon .

Tom Hanks , who is one of the producers and the host of the series, appears in the Jonathan Mostow-helmed episode portraying a fictional assistant to Méliès (Tchéky Karyo) during the making of the famous sci-fi short. From Earth to the Moon painstakingly recreates the sets and costumes for a seamless cut between the real thing and the reenactment, so well that its goofy tone is excused.

https://youtu.be/6wdEnlOcqNA

Despite the interplay here and the belief that NASA’s original scientists were likely inspired by sci-fi literature, television, and cinema, there’s no direct connection between A Trip to the Moon and the actual trips to the Moon by American astronauts in the ’60s and ’70s. Even a known letter to NASA in the ’80s asking if their “splashdown” method of reentry was inspired by Méliès was shot down.

When you have a moment as iconic as the rocket in the eye bit of A Trip to the Moon , you’re bound to be paid homage and parodied up the wazoo. Indeed, there have been reworkings of the shot through the years in art and, most memorably, in cartoons. From 1999, Futurama has a funny gag in its second episode in which Bender sticks a beer bottle into the eye of a Moon-faced mascot.

A few years later, The Simpsons spoofed the same scene in the form of a violent Itchy & Scratchy short within the 13th season episode “Blame It on Lisa.” The mouse and cat are playing golf, and Itchy clubs Scratchy’s head clean off, knocking it all the way into the anthropomorphized Moon’s eye, a la A Trip to the Moon . “Now, that’s what I call a Moon shot,” the Man in the Moon says.

https://youtu.be/aVMJFCoCv_k

Eight years later, the show did it again. In the 21st season episode “Moe Letter Blues,” we see a black and white Itchy & Scratchy toon involving more of the Méliès film. Itchy plays a director making a sci-fi film that looks very similar to A Trip to the Moon . When Scratchy messes up the set, Itchy cuts his head off, inflates it to greater size then fires the rocketship into his eye. The end.

https://youtu.be/XEqBFV59PcM

The New Score

If you listened to Air ‘s perfect debut album Moon Safari back in the ’90s and thought, “Hey, these guys should score sci-fi movies,” you’d have been 20 years ahead of the curve. First, they had to go and score a drama about five teenage sisters first (nevertheless impressively), and then 12 years later they were tasked with creating a new score for a 109-year-old sci-fi short.

After a rare hand-colored print of A Trip to the Moon was discovered in 1993, plans for a restoration eventually were made by a collaboration between Lobster Films, the Groupama Gan Foundation for Cinema, and the Technicolor Foundation for Cinema Heritage. They recruited Air to compose new music for the reconstructed classic, released in 2011.

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As you can see and hear above, it’s a perfect match. It’s not as random as some electronic scores for old silent films out there, with the French duo adding sound effects and offering enough changes in the music to fit the different environments. The score makes A Trip to the Moon anew with the way Air’s layered soundscapes deliver tone to the film that wasn’t there before.

And if the 15-minute score wasn’t enough, AIr put out a whole new album based on the gig (titled Le Voyage Dans la Lune ), which is twice as long as the main composition and plays like an extended soundtrack to the short.

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Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination: George Méliès’s Trip to the Moon

George Méliès has always figured as a term in larger debates: as a fantasist in opposition to the realism of the Lumières, or as an early narrativist in Sadoul’s teleological history of narrative development. More recently he has been invoked as a purveyor of attractions, which is the primary way that he figures in Matthew Solomon’s new anthology. Rather than deal with the entirety of Méliès’s career, this collection focuses on a single film, A Trip to the Moon (1902), using it as a site of intersection for many of the issues currently in play for the study of early cinema. Solomon has brought together some of the major figures in the field, including Tom Gunning, André Gaudreault, Paolo Cherchi Usai and Richard Abel, so that this collection provides a valuable resource, not just on this film, but more broadly, on the research questions that are now motivating the study of early cinema.

The importance of this field has been well established for some time now. Following the 1978 FIAF Congress in Brighton, historians and archivists produced massively important work that reinvigorated film studies by combining close textual analysis with a strong sense of social context. Not only did this provide a framework for revisionist evaluations of film practices, but it also provided the site for historiographic considerations, as the question of how film history had been written, and might now be re-conceived, became central issues. The failure of the postmodernism paradigm then led to an emphasis on modernity as an alternative epochal term for which more coherent theoretical positions might be developed. However, as film studies thrives on novelty, the issue now is how to find ways of keeping the concerns of early cinema studies fresh, as what was once revisionism has itself become orthodoxy.

All of which brings us to Méliès’s film. Solomon (who teaches at City University of New York at Staten Island) introduces the collection by giving an overview of the life of the film from its initial release in 1902 to its (and Méliès’s) disappearance and re-discovery at the end of the 1920s, its passage into the international canon in an incomplete version collected by the Museum of Modern Art, and its subsequent archival restoration in the past fifteen years. (The book handily comes packaged with a dvd with two versions of the film, both accompanied by commentaries.)

Several of the chapters reprint older material in new translations. These include Paolo Cherchi Usai’s brief introductory notes for a 1991 Méliès exhibition at George Eastman House and Gaudreault’s 1981 essay on ‘Theatricality, Narrativity, and Trickality’. The importance of the anthology lies in the shifting ways that connections emerge between the chapters. Gaudreault’s essay along with Viva Paci’s deal with the film as an attraction, the term applied by Gaudreault and Gunning to what they saw as the predominant mode of film practice in the first decade of the cinema. The cinema of attractions involves the display of the cinema as a technology of wonder and spectacle, rather than as a transparent mechanism for narration. A widespread cinematic practice that did something other than narrate was an enticing proposition for those invested in theories about the supposed absorption and positioning of the spectator in later narrational practices. Subsequently many people have chafed under the historical limits of the initial periodisation of the “cinema of attractions,” with Viva Paci being a good case in point. She is keen to use Méliès’s film to argue for the persistence of attractionality in a range of work including MGM musicals, Busby Berkeley’s work, avant-garde filmmaking and contemporary video clips. This tends to abstract the formal properties of these forms of filmmaking from their placement within wider social and cinematic formations.

The bulk of the authors however, look backwards rather than forwards, attempting to locate Méliès’s film within a web of other works from which it draws. Foremost among these influences are Jules Verne’s From the Earth to the Moon , H.G. Wells’s The First Men in the Moon , Offenbach’s operetta Le Voyage dans la lune , as well as the rides at various expositions and world’s fairs taking place around the same time in France and the United States. Rather than anachronistically invoking science fiction, Frank Kessler locates the film in the genre of the féerie , a theatrical form of the period that fixed fantastical plots with mixed modes including music, ballet, stage trickery and whatever else came to hand.

This notion of the film as a hybrid that involves mixed modes of spectacle and address is an idea extended by Tom Gunning. No one is more closely associated than Gunning with an emphasis that links modernity and vision. His essay here deals with Méliès’s film in terms of what he calls “modern vision.” He is quick to point out that this term is not a biologically based one, but rather a system-based abstraction heavily influenced by the thinking of Dziga Vertov, which identifies the eye, its relation to the objects of vision, and the range of adjacent technologies that exist to augment human vision. These include the camera, the telescope, the x-ray and so on. The result is “a modern hyperstimulus of vision and its abstraction of space” (108). Gunning is interested in what he sees as the ways the film demonstrates the exploration of space, just as the characters in the film are also explorers of outer space.

Murray Pomerance picks up this ball and runs with it. Pomerance’s central claim is that A Trip to the Moon is concerned with the elimination of space. Like Gunning, he argues this case by the familiar tactic of reading the film’s narrative as a metaphor for its own construction. The spatial incongruities and inconsistencies of the mise-en-scène suggest abstract ways of overcoming the bounds of spatial distinctions. Méliès as filmmaker conquers space, just as Méliès as Professor Barbenfoullis in the film conquers space and space creatures. On page 92 Pomerance writes:

Is not Méliès signalling us to consider the moving point-of-view as prototypical…he is showing us the abstract idea of a moving point-of-view, in order to suggest, perhaps, that all of the film is to be conceived in this peripatetic way.

Rather than Méliès signalling anything like this, it strikes me that Pomerance is the one doing the signalling. This notion of the text as a space for the play of the analyst is one that Victoria Duckett explores. Her central contention is that the film contains (or rather, can be made to contain) a satirical feminist distance. In her essay, the film becomes a starting point for a chain of associations. She ends with the rhetorical question, “To what extent might I actually be inventing feminist agency?” (177).

Apart from the unbounded play of references, early cinema history has also grounded itself in more material questions concerning the industrial circulation of films. Thierry Lefebvre makes the point that the scale of the film was exceptional for Méliès at this point in his career and that the film’s primary intended market was the United States. This is an insight taken up by Richard Abel, who has a long-standing interest in the marketing and reception of French films in the U.S. He traces the way that American audiences were more likely to see A Trip to the Moon as an Edison film rather than a French one. This has a special resonance in Australia where the French film components of the Salvation Army’s Soldiers of the Cross program were the basis of Australian nationalists’ claims to have produced the first long-form feature in the world.

Mike Walsh,

Flinders University, Australia

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A Trip to the Moon – Book vs. Movie Showdown

‘A Trip to the Moon’ is a groundbreaking science fiction novel written by the visionary author, Jules Verne . First published in 1865, this captivating tale takes readers on an extraordinary journey to the moon, exploring themes of adventure, exploration, and human ambition. In this article, we will delve into the book’s mesmerizing plot and unravel its connection to Verne’s larger body of work.

Book Summary of ‘A Trip to the Moon’

Set in the late 19th century, ‘A Trip to the Moon’ follows the adventures of a group of astronomers who embark on a daring mission to the moon. Led by the determined protagonist, Professor Barbenfouillis, the team builds a giant cannon that propels them into space. As they land on the moon’s surface, they encounter bizarre landscapes, encounter moon-dwelling creatures, and experience thrilling escapades. However, their return to Earth presents unforeseen challenges, pushing their bravery and resourcefulness to the limit.

Movie Summary of ‘A Trip to the Moon’

This iconic novel also inspired a pioneering silent film adaptation by legendary filmmaker Georges Méliès. Released in 1902, the movie brought Verne’s imaginative world to life on the silver screen. In the film, Méliès himself portrays Professor Barbenfouillis, adding a touch of authenticity to the portrayal. The movie showcases stunning visual effects for its time, showcasing Méliès’ groundbreaking techniques such as stop-motion animation and hand-painted color. ‘A Trip to the Moon’ became an instant classic and solidified Méliès’ place in cinematic history.

Historical Context: When Does ‘A Trip to the Moon’ Take Place?

‘A Trip to the Moon’ is set in the late 19th century, a time when scientific discoveries were rapidly transforming society. Verne skillfully weaves together the spirit of exploration prevalent during this period with his own imaginative vision of space travel. By setting the story in a time when the idea of space exploration was still in its infancy, Verne captures the excitement and boundless possibilities that lay ahead for humanity.

Exploring the Film Locations of ‘A Trip to the Moon’

Although ‘A Trip to the Moon’ is a work of fiction, the novel’s vivid descriptions of the moon’s landscapes and structures have inspired countless artists and filmmakers. The film adaptation by Méliès meticulously recreates the moon’s surface, complete with craters, mountains, and a gigantic human-like face. While the actual film locations are limited to Méliès’ studio in France , the visual effects and set designs continue to captivate audiences, showcasing the power of imagination and creativity.

Meet the Cast: Who’s Who in ‘A Trip to the Moon’

In both Verne’s novel and Méliès’ film, the characters come to life with their distinct personalities and motivations. Professor Barbenfouillis, the intrepid leader of the expedition, exemplifies determination and scientific curiosity. His companions, including Captain Nicholl and Michel Ardan, bring their own expertise and contribute to the success of the mission. Understanding the characters and their roles adds depth and enhances the overall reading and viewing experience.

Memorable Quotes from ‘A Trip to the Moon’

‘A Trip to the Moon’ is replete with memorable quotes that encapsulate the spirit of adventure and exploration.

One such quote from Professor Barbenfouillis states, “We shall not only explore the moon, but conquer it!” This line reflects the audacity and ambition of the characters, challenging readers to dream big and push the boundaries of what is possible.

The novel is peppered with many such inspiring quotes that resonate long after the pages are turned or the film credits roll.

The Captivating Soundtrack by Octavio Vázquez: Bio and Other Works

The film adaptation of ‘A Trip to the Moon’ features a captivating soundtrack composed by Octavio Vázquez. Born in Spain , Vázquez is an acclaimed composer known for his ability to evoke emotions through his music. His compositions for ‘A Trip to the Moon’ enhance the visual experience and transport audiences into the magical world created by Méliès. Vázquez’s other works span various genres and mediums, further showcasing his versatility and artistic brilliance.

Curiosities and Hidden Gems in ‘A Trip to the Moon’

‘Beyond the Moon: Unraveling the Mysteries of ‘A Trip to the Moon’ and Jules Verne’s Masterpiece’ takes readers on a journey to uncover the hidden gems and curiosities embedded within ‘A Trip to the Moon.’ From symbolism and allegory to subtle references and foreshadowing, this section explores the nuances that make the novel and film truly remarkable. Delving into these hidden gems adds an extra layer of intrigue and appreciation for Verne’s and Méliès’ masterpieces.

Tips for Cosplay and Dressing Like the Astronomer – Nostradamus and the Lady in the Moon

For enthusiasts who wish to bring the characters of ‘A Trip to the Moon’ to life, this section provides tips and inspiration for cosplay and dressing up as the Astronomer – Nostradamus and the Lady in the Moon. From detailed costume descriptions to suggestions for accessories and makeup, this guide ensures that fans can immerse themselves in the world of Verne’s creation and celebrate their love for the novel and film through creative self-expression.

Jules Verne: A Brief Biography of the Author

Understanding the life and influences of Jules Verne provides valuable insights into the creation of ‘A Trip to the Moon.’ This section offers a concise biography of Verne, highlighting key moments and experiences that shaped his writing career. From his early days as a stockbroker to his eventual success as a celebrated author, Verne’s journey serves as a testament to the power of imagination and perseverance.

Five Best Works by Jules Verne and Their Summaries

While ‘A Trip to the Moon’ remains one of Jules Verne’s most iconic works, the author has a rich body of literature that continues to captivate readers worldwide. This section presents a curated list of Verne’s five best works, accompanied by brief summaries. From the underwater adventures of ‘Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea’ to the thrilling escapades in ‘Journey to the Center of the Earth,’ these novels showcase Verne’s unmatched storytelling prowess and enduring impact.

Other Media Adaptations of Georges Méliès’ Works

Georges Méliès’ contributions to cinema extend far beyond his adaptation of ‘A Trip to the Moon.’ This section explores five other notable media adaptations of Méliès’ works, ranging from modern film reinterpretations to stage adaptations and animated recreations. These adaptations pay homage to Méliès’ visionary approach to filmmaking and highlight the enduring influence of his pioneering techniques.

Similar Movies to ‘A Trip to the Moon’

For fans of ‘A Trip to the Moon’ seeking more cinematic adventures, this section provides a curated list of ten similar movies that capture the spirit of exploration and imagination. From modern science fiction epics to classic space-themed films, these movies offer thrilling narratives and breathtaking visuals that will transport viewers to new worlds and ignite their sense of wonder.

Book Club Discussion Questions for ‘A Trip to the Moon’

‘A Trip to the Moon’ offers a wealth of thought-provoking themes and ideas that make it an excellent choice for book club discussions. This section presents a set of discussion questions designed to deepen readers’ understanding of the novel and foster engaging conversations. From exploring the moral implications of scientific progress to discussing the role of ambition in human achievement, these questions invite readers to delve into the novel’s rich subtext and share their perspectives.

Similar Novels to ‘From the Earth to the Moon’

For readers who have been captivated by ‘A Trip to the Moon’ and crave more exhilarating tales of space exploration, this section recommends ten similar novels that will satiate their appetite for adventure. From classic science fiction to contemporary works, these novels transport readers to distant planets, explore the intricacies of space travel, and delve into the complexities of the human condition. Each recommended novel is accompanied by a brief description, allowing readers to choose their next literary journey.

Parent Guide: Is ‘A Trip to the Moon’ Suitable for Children?

Parents who wish to introduce their children to the wonders of ‘A Trip to the Moon’ can find guidance in this section. It provides an assessment of the novel’s suitability for young readers, considering factors such as age-appropriate content, educational value, and potential discussion points. By understanding the nuances of the story and its themes, parents can make informed decisions about sharing this classic work of literature with their children.

Buying Guide: Where to Purchase ‘A Trip to the Moon’ and Related Merchandise

For those eager to embark on their own journey to the moon, this buying guide directs readers to the best places to purchase ‘A Trip to the Moon’ and related merchandise. Whether seeking a physical copy of the novel, a collector’s edition of the film, or other merchandise inspired by Verne’s and Méliès’ works, this guide provides reliable options to satisfy any fan’s desire to own a piece of this iconic story.

Conclusion: Unraveling the Connection Between ‘A Trip to the Moon’ and Jules Verne’s Masterpiece

‘A Trip to the Moon’ is a timeless tale that continues to inspire and captivate audiences more than a century after its publication. In this article, we have explored the book’s mesmerizing plot, the film adaptation that brought it to life, and the fascinating connection it shares with Jules Verne’s broader body of work. Whether through Verne’s vivid imagination or Méliès’ groundbreaking visual effects, ‘A Trip to the Moon’ remains a testament to the power of storytelling and the boundless possibilities of human endeavor.

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A Trip to the Moon (French: Le Voyage dans la lune ) is a 1902 black-and-white French science fiction film about ( surprise! ) six Frenchmen going to the moon. It is based loosely on two popular novels of the time: From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne and The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells , though some sources claim otherwise on the latter. Another major source of inspiration was an 1875 operetta of the same name.

Notable for being one of the Ur Examples of science fiction film and associated tropes, and for its innovative animation and special effects, including the well-known image of the spaceship landing in the moon's eye.

Plays a key role in the Brian Selznick children's novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret and its Martin Scorsese -directed film adaptation Hugo . The movie also served as the main inspiration for the music video of " Tonight, Tonight " by The Smashing Pumpkins . The story of the film's production was also used in the final episode of From the Earth to the Moon as a contrast to the parallel story of the final Apollo flight, the only one to have actual scientists.

A Trip to the Moon contains examples of:

Adaptation Amalgamation : It is based loosely on two popular novels of the time: From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne and The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells , though some sources claim otherwise on the latter. Another major source of inspiration was an 1875 operetta of the same name.
Artistic License – Physics : The idea that subjecting a human to the force needed to send a capsule to the moon via cannon being probably a bad idea was actually pretty well understood at the time, but in this fantasy ignored.
The film was coloured by handpainting each frame of the film . This was a few years before tinting became possible and over a decade before the earliest technicolor processes.
The scene where the ship approaches the moon was filmed by mounting the oversized moon prop on railings and sliding it towards the camera. Why not do the smart thing and just move the camera? Because the technology was new and the people involved were still transitioning from theater performance and theater thinking. The camera was seen as a stand-in for the audience, and who would be insane enough to move the audience around while the props sit still?
Batman Can Breathe in Space : Artistic License on the part of Méliès, since even in 1902, astronomers knew from telescopic observation that the Moon had little to no atmosphere.
Crazy-Prepared : It was certainly handy that all the men thought to bring umbrellas with them to the Moon.
Deface of the Moon : Crashed a spaceship right in its eye!
Epic Movie : By the standards of the day, at least. This film is more than fifteen minutes long, when its contemporaries averaged around five minutes or so. It was also one of the first Science Fiction films to be made at a time when most films tended to be about mundane, everyday things .
Eye Scream : The iconic scene of the ship landing in the moon's eye.
Fanservice : All the girls in hot pants standing by at the launch.
Genius Loci : The moon, as evident in the picture above.
Gravity Sucks : How are they going to get off the moon and back to Earth? By going over the edge. The assumption here being that the Earth is providing the gravity on the moon.
Human Aliens : Averted here (see the Humanoid Aliens entry below), but played straight in The Remake An Excursion to the Moon , made by Segundo Chomòn without Méliès's blessing or participation. In that unauthorized remake, the aliens seem evenly divided into Fu Manchu lookalikes and attractive French ballerinas.
Humanoid Aliens : The Selenites look and move basically like (very acrobatic) human beings, but their heads are somewhere between birdlike and insectoid, and they appear to have exoskeletons as well.
Lampshaded by Rifftrax: Mike: (as scientist) Hold on, we're going back to kill the rest of them, right? Kevin: (as scientist) Yeah! It's so addictive!
Interplanetary Voyage : It's called A Trip to the Moon , you know.
Made of Explodium / Made of Plasticine : The Selenites will vaporize if you hit them hard with an umbrella, or really, any strong impact will do. Which makes the astronomers' aggressive behaviour towards them seem all the worse.
The Man in the Moon : Hi there!
No Body Left Behind : The Selenites disappear into a puff of smoke when struck.
The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything : Despite being ostensibly part of a scientific expedition, the travelers seem to be much more interested in killing the local fauna than studying them or their environment.
Pop Culture Osmosis : That trope image of the "spaceship stuck in moon's eye" is about the only thing most people know of the film.
Pop-Star Composer : Sort of; Air made the soundtrack for restored color version, nearly 110 years later.
Robe and Wizard Hat : How the astronomers are dressed.
Rule of Cool : Méliès' priority was in entertaining with an impressive spectacle, not advancing astronomic theory.
Satire : The behavior of the astronomers and their interactions with the aliens is said to be critical of colonialism.
Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism : Despite its reputation as a movie which inspires a sense of childlike wonder, the movie lies on the cynical end. The scientists are madmen who murder as many aliens as they can for no reason, suffer no consequences and are rewarded at the end with a parade in their honour.
Soft Water : The ocean when falling from the height of the moon without any slowing mechanism.
Stop Trick : Trope Maker .
Trip to the Moon Plot : It's all about a bunch of people who slingshot themselves into the moon and then come back.
Villain Protagonist : Our 'heroes' invade another world, murder a bunch of their inhabitants, commit regicide, accidentally drag one of the natives home and put him on a leash for a parade.
Weird Moon : Aliens and giant mushrooms, hm?
When Elders Attack : The head professor is battling against the aliens.
Zeerust : Considering it's over a century old...

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5 Inspiring quotes about the first moon landing

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From John F. Kennedy to Pope Paul VI, the first moon landing —the 50th anniversary of which we just celebrated on July 20—inspired unforgettable quotes which have become as immortal as the images of that first moon walk. Here are five of the most memorable related to the adventure that pushed humanity beyond the limits of what was thought possible , and that meant much more than just a journey to a new frontier …

In one of the most emblematic speeches in the history of political rhetoric, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) announced that man would go to the moon, and put to use all the resources of the USA to achieve it. The space race with the Soviet Union was perhaps the most innocent of the competitions of the Cold War, but in no way was it free of cloak-and-dagger activities. During his speech on September 12, 1962, at the stadium of Rice University, JFK proposed a government policy, but also a transcendent reason for that policy:

There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation many never come again. But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas? We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.”

JFK was assassinated on November 22, 1963. The Apollo program continued. When he gave that speech, a national majority was against the lunar program, but his words inspired the nation and may well have been decisive for changing the course of history.

St. Paul VI, like the rest of humanity, followed the events of July, 1969, with close attention, and that was reflected in his public words in his Angelus message for July 20, 1969:

Who are we, that we are capable of so much? It would be good for us to meditate on this progress. Today, the scientific and operational progress of humanity is arriving at a goal that seemed unreachable: where may the thoughts and actions of man yet arrive? The admiration, the enthusiasm, the passion for the tools and products of the ingenuity of the hand of man fascinate us, perhaps to the point of folly. And here is the danger: we must protect ourselves from this possible idolatry of tools. It’s true that tools multiply man’s efficiency beyond all limits; but is this efficiency always to his advantage? Does it make him good? More human? Or might not the instrument imprison the humanity that produces it, and make them servants of a way of life that instrumentalizes man in production, and that imposes its own paradigm on its use? Everything still depends on the heart of man.”

Buzz Aldrin and the Psalm that reached the moon

Buzz Aldrin, a Presbyterian, brought the Word of God with him to our planet’s natural satellite, along with communion given him by his pastor. Since the astronauts were only allowed to carry a very small amount of personal objects with them, he brought a few Bible verses written on a 3-by-5 card , including Psalm 8: 3-4:

When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man that thou art mindful of him? And the Son of Man, that thou visitest Him?”

Neil Armstrong’s famous first step

The honor of being the first man to step on the moon fell to Neil Armstrong, whose sublime words have become famous around the world:

That’s one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind.”

There is debate around whether or not Armstrong said the “a” (not audible in the recording of the live transmission), and about whether he came up with the quote before or after leaving the earth, but in any case, his words captured the significance of the moment.

Walter Cronkite

Journalist Walter Cronkite anchored CBS’s coverage of the journey of Apollo 11. He was filled with emotion and waxed poetic with words like these, which he spoke right after sharing the images of Neil Armstrong stepping down onto the moon’s surface:

For thousands of years now, it’s been man’s dream to walk on the moon. Right now, after seeing it happen, knowing that it happened, it still seems like a dream. And it is, I guess—a dream come true.”

The moon continues to fascinate us. While we can’t all go to the moon — and in fact, no one has for decades — we can still marvel at its beauty, and at the achievement of having reached such a distant and difficult destination. Here are some images of the most recent partial lunar eclipse, as seen from various locations around the world, and a slideshow of additional beautiful photos of the moon.

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RELEASE DATES France 1 September 1902 USA 4 October 1902 Sweden 29 October 1902 (Gothenburg) Netherlands 21 November 1902 (Amsterdam) Japan 9 August 1905

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153 Best Travel Quotes To Inspire You To See The World

We’ve been putting together some of our favorite inspirational travel quotes as we continue to travel the world and experience new places and things abroad.

What follows is a complete collection of 153 of the best travel quotes, complete with adventure travel quotes from famous figures like Anthony Bourdain, John Muir, and Mark Twain.

Warning: some of these quotes may give you the travel itch! In any case, I hope you’ll find some of these short travel quotes inspirational for your own journey!

Table of Contents show 153 Best Travel Quotes • Famous Travel Quotes • Mark Twain Travel Quotes • Funny Travel Quotes • Short Travel Quotes • Misc Travel Quotes • Inspirational Travel Quotes • Travel With Friends Quotes • Adventure Travel Quotes • Solo Travel Quotes • Anthony Bourdain Travel Quotes More Travel Content & Tips

153 Best Travel Quotes

• famous travel quotes.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. — Unknown

Take only memories, leave only footprints. — Unknown

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. — Gustave Flaubert

Not all those who wander are lost. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Every man dies, but not every man really lives. — William Wallace

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. — Oscar Wilde

Life is a journey. Make the most of it. — Unknown

I’ve traveled every road in this here land… I’ve been everywhere, man, I’ve been everywhere. — Johnny Cash

Paris is always a good idea. — Audrey Hepburn

Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer. — Unknown

Collect moments, not things. — Unknown

Today is your day, your mountain is waiting. So get on your way. — Dr Seuss

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. — Unknown

I’m shaking the dust of this crummy little town off my feet and I’m gonna see the world. — George Bailey in It’s A Wonderful Life

It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home. — Gary Snyder

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. — Lao Tzu

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. — John Muir

The mountains are calling and I must go. — John Muir

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. — John Muir

To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, to gain all while you give, to roam the roads of lands remote: To travel is to live. — Hans Christian Andersen

Oh the places you’ll go. — Dr. Seuss

I shall be telling this with a sigh, Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. — Robert Frost

When one is alone at night in the depths of the woods, the stillness is at once awful and sublime. — John Muir

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own. — Charles Dickens

• Mark Twain Travel Quotes

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the Earth all one’s lifetime.

To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else — these are the things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial. Lifetimes of ecstasy crowded into a single moment.

It is the loveliest fleet of islands [ Hawaii ] that lies anchored in any ocean.

No alien land in all the world has any deep strong charm for me but that one [ Hawaii ], no other land could so longingly and so beseechingly haunt me, sleeping and waking, through half a lifetime, as that one has done. Other things leave me, but it abides; other things change, but it remains the same. For me the balmy airs are always blowing, its summer seas flashing in the sun; the pulsing of its surfbeat is in my ear; I can see its garlanded crags, its leaping cascades, its plumy palms drowsing by the shore, its remote summits floating like islands above the cloud wrack; I can feel the spirit of its wildland solitudes, I can hear the splash of its brooks; in my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.

• Funny Travel Quotes

Airplanes may kill you, but they ain’t likely to hurt you. — Leroy Satchel Paige

Two great talkers will not travel far together. — George Borrow

I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. — Mark Twain

I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine. — Caskie Stinnett

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone? — Erma Bombeck

Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore. — Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz

• Short Travel Quotes

Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before. — Unknown

Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times. — Asian Proverb

Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. — Ibn Battutah

We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us. — Unknown

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm. — Ella Maillart

Half the fun of travel is the esthetic of lostness. — Ray Bradbury

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. — Marcel Proust

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. — Neale Donald Walsh

I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list. — Unknown

And I think to myself, what a wonderful world. — Louis Armstrong

They say travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind. — G.K. Chesterton

Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. — Anita Desai

Life is short and the world is wide. — Unknown

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land. — G.K. Chesterton

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. — Lao Tzu

If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere. — Vincent van Gogh

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. — John Muir

A wise traveler never despises his own country. — Carlos Osvaldo Goldoni

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. — William Hazlitt

I love to travel, but hate to arrive. — Albert Einstein

And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul. — John Muir

A great way to learn about your country is to leave it. — Henry Rollins

Live your life by a compass, not a clock. — Stephen Covey

Some experiences simply do not translate, you have to go to know. — Kobi Yamada

I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. — Mary Anne Radmacher

At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding. — Arthur Frommer

Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage. — Paulo Coelho

Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost. — Erol Ozan

Travel far enough, you meet yourself. — David Mitchell

The journey itself is my home. — Matsuo Basho

Live, travel, adventure, bless and don’t be sorry. — Jack Kerouac

The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. — Guillermo del Toro

A good traveler leaves no tracks. — Lao Tzu

It’s in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the Earth people who make you feel right at home. — Aaron Lauritsen

It is better to travel well than to arrive. — Unknown

The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life. — Agnes Repplier

• Misc Travel Quotes

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. — Albert Camus

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world. — John Muir

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty. — John Muir

I’m in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana, it is love. — John Steinbeck

Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands, in which one gains the advantages of both solitude and society. — John Muir

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. — Jacques Cousteau

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The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don’t always know if it is green or violet, you can’t even say it’s blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray. — Vincent van Gogh

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. — John Burroughs

No pain here, no dull empty hours, no fear of the past, no fear of the future. These blessed mountains are so compactly filled with God’s beauty, no petty personal hope or experience has room to be. — John Muir

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. — Jules Renard

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. — Albert Einstein

Lighthouses are not just stone, brick, metal, and glass. There’s a human story at every lighthouse. — Elinor DeWire

To almost every man and woman there is something about a lighted beacon which suggests hope and trust and appeals to the better instincts of all mankind. — Edward Rowe Snowe

• Inspirational Travel Quotes

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. — Helen Keller

Never let your memories be greater than your dreams. — Douglas Ivester

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. — Lawrence of Arabia

Do not dare not to dare. — C.S. Lewis

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. — George Adair

Wherever you go, go with all your heart. — Unknown

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win. — John Paul Jones

This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for wonder to shock ourselves into astonishment once again. — Shana Alexander

I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you’re going to see your country differently, you’re going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. — Henry Rollins

Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in an office or mowing your lawn. Climb that damn mountain. — Jack Kerouac

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. — Ray Bradbury

We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place. We stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there. — Pascal Mercier

Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to. — Alan Keightley

Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground. — Judith Thurman

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey. — Pat Conroy

No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet. — Patrick Rothfuss

It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling. — Gustave Flaubert

The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown. — Paul Theroux

Although I deeply love oceans, deserts and other wild landscapes, it is only mountains that beckon me with that sort of painful magnetic pull to walk deeper and deeper into their beauty. They keep me continuously wanting to know more, feel more, see more. — Victoria Erickson

• Travel With Friends Quotes

A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles. — Tim Cahill

You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place. — Miriam Adeney

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. — Robert Louis Stevenson

• Adventure Travel Quotes

Adventure is worthwhile in itself. — Amelia Earhart

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal. — Paulo Coelho

Most of us abandoned the idea of a life full of adventure and travel sometime between puberty and our first job. Our dreams died under the dark weight of responsibility. Occasionally the old urge surfaces, and we label it with names that suggest psychological aberrations: the big chill, a midlife crisis. — Tim Cahill

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter. — John Muir

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. — Edward Abbey

Once a journey is designed, equipped, and put in process, a new factor enters and takes over. A trip, a safari, an exploration, is an entity, different from all other journeys. It has personality, temperament, individuality, uniqueness. A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. Tour masters, schedules, reservations, brass-bound and inevitable, dash themselves to wreckage on the personality of the trip. Only when this is recognized can the blown-in-the glass bum relax and go along with it. Only then do the frustrations fall away. In this a journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. — John Steinbeck

What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? – it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. — Jack Kerouac

A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for. — J.A. Shedd

Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and make a trail. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any. — Hugh Laurie

Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the Earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white. — Mark Jenkins

The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. — Christopher McCandless

Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else – above all, a travel bureau – arrange everything before-hand? — Richard Aldington

Be careful because Cambodia is the most dangerous place you will ever visit. You will fall in love with it, and eventually it will break your heart. — Joel Brinkley

• Solo Travel Quotes

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. — Freya Stark

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. — Unknown

I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses. — Bill Bryson

The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home. — Freya Stark

When you’ve managed to stumble directly into the heart of the unknown – either through the misdirection of others, or better yet, through your own creative ineptitude – there is no one there to hold your hand or tell you what to do. In those bad lost moments, in the times when we are advised not to panic, we own the unknown, and the world belongs to us. The child within has full reign. Few of us are ever so free. — Tim Cahill

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. — Lin Yutang

He travels the fastest who travels alone. — Rudyard Kipling

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection. — Lawrence Durrell

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself. — Liberty Hyde Bailey

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. — Henry David Thoreau

I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more. — Thomas Jefferson

Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time. — Hannah Arendt

Personally I like going places where I don’t speak the language, don’t know anybody, don’t know my way around and don’t have any delusions that I’m in control. Disoriented, even frightened, I feel alive, awake in ways I never am at home. — Michael Mewshaw

I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads. — Paulo Coelho

Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I choose. — Walt Whitman

• Anthony Bourdain Travel Quotes

If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.

Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life — and travel — leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks — on your body or on your heart — are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.

It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu , for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love affair you can never talk about. For a while after, you fumble for words, trying vainly to assemble a private narrative, an explanation, a comfortable way to frame where you’ve been and what’s happened. In the end, you’re just happy you were there — with your eyes open — and lived to see it.

Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.

I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find the perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one. Letting the happy accident happen is what a lot of vacation itineraries miss, I think, and I’m always trying to push people to allow those things to happen rather than stick to some rigid itinerary.

Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? … I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.

It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn. Maybe that’s enlightenment enough – to know that there is no final resting place of the mind, no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom, at least for me, means realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.

I think food, culture, people and landscape are all absolutely inseparable.

Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.

Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.

I wanted adventures. I wanted to go up the Nung river to the heart of darkness in Cambodia . I wanted to ride out into a desert on camelback, sand and dunes in every direction, eat whole roasted lamb with my fingers. I wanted to kick snow off my boots in a Mafiya nightclub in Russia. I wanted to play with automatic weapons in Phnom Penh, recapture the past in a small oyster village in France, step into a seedy neon-lit pulqueria in rural Mexico. I wanted to run roadblocks in the middle of the night, blowing past angry militia with a handful of hurled Marlboro packs, experience fear, excitement, wonder. I wanted kicks – the kind of melodramatic thrills and chills I’d yearned for since childhood, the kind of adventure I’d found as a little boy in the pages of my Tintin comic books. I wanted to see the world – and I wanted the world to be just like the movies.

At this point I think my body is like an old car. Another dent ain’t gonna make a whole lot of difference. At best it’s a reminder that you’re still alive and lucky as hell. Another tattoo, another thing you did, another place you’ve been.

Without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, and moribund.

If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food, it’s a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.

Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.

Fly Me To The Moon! 40+ Moon Quotes For When A Full Moon Leaves You Speechless

Quick — think of a popular song , painting, or poem about the moon. You probably have so many options going through your head it might be impossible to zero in on just one. That’s because the moon has inspired a near endless list of art, literature, and song in civilizations old and new (not to mention all the popular lunar names for babies floating around out there!). Humanity’s relationship with the moon goes back to prehistoric times, with a painting of a 15,000-year-old lunar calendar found as part of the art in the Lascaux caves in France. That fascination and study of Earth’s only satellite and constant in our night sky can be found time and again in ancient art and science, because, let’s admit it, we’re all selenophiles! In fact, the lunar calendar was so ubiquitous it was the most popular calendar before the modern era, with the Chinese, Greeks, Babylonians, South Asians, Greeks, and more using it as the basis of their calendar. Some, like the Jewish or Chinese lunar calendar, are still in use today.

All this to say that as long as the moon and Earth are locked in a dance together, we will all have a fascination with this magical and ever-changing orb in our sky. If you feel inspired and want to read some beautiful sayings about the moon or are just looking for the best Instagram caption for an epic full moon photo, we rounded up the best moon quotes just for you. The moons the limit.

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“Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.” — Mark Twain
“Shoot for the moon; you might get there.” — Buzz Aldrin
“Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.” — Paul Brandt
“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” — Anton Chekhov
“Tape the sound of the moon fading at dawn. Give it to your mother to listen to when she’s in sorrow.” — Yoko Ono
“Full moon is a good fisherman; every eyes are easily caught in his net!“ — Mehmet Murat ildan
“Don’t worry if you’re making waves just by being yourself. The moon does it all the time.” — Scott Stabile
“The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.” — Shannon L. Alder
“For when I look at the moon I do not see a hostile, empty world. I see the radiant body where man has taken his first steps into a frontier that will never end.” — David R. Scott, Commander Apollo 15
“I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.” — Albert Einstein
“Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.” — J.R.R. Tolkien
“The moon can never breathe, but it can take our breath away with the beauty of its cold, arid orb.” — Munia Khan
“Cheap little rhymes

A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.” — Langston Hughes

“How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!” — William Shakespeare
“It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.” — Galileo Galilei
“Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.” — E.E. Cummings
“You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.“ — Gary Allan
“We ran as if to meet the moon.” — Robert Frost
“The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.“ — Carl Sandburg
“Go slowly, my lovely moon, go slowly.” — Khaled Hosseini
“But even when the moon looks like it’s waning… it’s actually never changing shape. Don’t ever forget that.” — Ai Yazawa
“The moon is the reflection of your heart and moonlight is the twinkle of your love.“ — Debasish Mridha
“Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. Then your love would also change.” — William Shakespeare
“We all shine on… like the moon and the stars and the sun… we all shine on… come on and on and on…” — John Lennon
“Tell me the story

About how the sun loved the moon so much That she died every night Just to let him breathe.” — Hanako Ishii

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” — Les Brown
“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” — John F. Kennedy
“That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” — Neil Armstrong
“Moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne
“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
“As different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.” — Emily Brontë
Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt at being told that it is a fragment awaiting perfection.” — Rabindranath Tagore
“Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue, corn moon?” — Pocahantas
“The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It keeps to its course, but by its very nature, it gently influences. What other body could pull an entire ocean from shore to shore? The moon is faithful to its nature and its power is never diminished.” — Deng Ming-Dao
“I’d rather live in a world where I get to love the moon than in one where I don’t, even if the moon won’t return the feeling.” — Alex London
“She is twice as beautiful as the moon and all of the stars together.” — Giovannie de Sadeleer
“Your thoughts are a veil on the face of the Moon. That Moon is your heart, and those thoughts cover your heart. So let them go, just let them fall into the water.” — Rumi
“She used to tell me that a full moon was when mysterious things happen, and wishes come true.” — Shannon A. Thompson
“We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.” — Khalil Gibran
“A doctor once told me I feel too much. I said, so does god. that’s why you can see the grand canyon from the moon.” — Andrea Gibson
“The moon is the first milestone on the road to the stars.” — Arthur C. Clarke
“The moon was so beautiful that the ocean held up a mirror.” — Ani DiFranco
“Drag me to the moon to catch a star and seize its brilliance as I’m swept up in amorphous dust.” — Bradley Chicho
“The moon lives in the lining of your skin.” — Pablo Neruda

This article was originally published on May 31, 2021

75 Magical, Mysterious Quotes About the Moon

Share 'em tonight whether Earth's closest celestial neighbor is waxing, waning or big and bright!

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Below, you'll find meaningful, beautifully-worded tributes to the Moon by contemporary luminaries including Taylor Swift , Les Brown, and Amanda Gorman , as well as renowned figures from history like Sojourner Truth, J. R. R. Tolkien, and even Frank Sinatra. In need of a pretty bit of poetry to whisper to your love under the moonlight? You might want to opt for e.e. Cummings' swoon-worthy composition, "Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: — you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars." Or, if you're looking for the perfect Instagram caption for your next alluring lunar snap, perhaps consider this bit of encouraging wisdom from Gautama Buddha: "Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine."

So read on for these and more enlightening lunar quotes— we guarantee you'll be over the moon about them!

Best Moon Quotes

"Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine." — Gautama Buddha
"It's the moon that moves me. The sunlight makes everything so obvious." —Bavo Dhooge
"Don't tell me the sky is the limit when there are footprints on the Moon." —Paul Brandt
"I will never be a morning person, for the moon and I are much too in love." —Christopher Poindexter
"If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression. Of something beautiful, but annihilating. Both of you are great light borrowers." —Sylvia Plath
"I'd rather live in a world where I get to love the moon than in one where I don’t, even if the moon won’t return the feeling." —Alex London
"I am the sun and moon and forever hungry, the sharpened edge where day and night shall meet and not be one." —Audre Lorde
"If he’s the darkness, then you’re his moon, and the moon wasn’t made to be caged." —Hafsah Faizal
"Don't worry if you're making waves just by being yourself. The moon does it all the time." —Scott Stabile
"What a little moonlight can do. Wait a while ‘till a little moonbeam comes peepin’ through." —Billie Holiday
"The moon was reigning all over their world, glowing its full splendor to all those willing to look up." —Irina Serban
"Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." —Anton Chekhov
"Cheap little rhymes, a cheap little tune, are sometimes as dangerous as a sliver of the moon." —Langston Hughes
"Go further than you planned. Ask for the moon. You will be surprised how often you get it." —Paulo Coelho
"Shoot for the Moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars." —Les Brown

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Romantic Moon Quotes

"Will this be moon love, nothing but moon love? Will you be gone when the dawn comes stealing through?" — Frank Sinatra
"In this city by the sea, walk the memories: just me and the lavender moon. She knows my heart belongs to you." — Haroula Rose
"Well it’s a marvelous night for a moondance, with the stars up above in the skies. A wonderful night to make romance ‘neath the cover of October skies." —Van Morrison
"Don't compare her to sunshine and roses when she's clearly orchids and moonlight." —Melody Lee
"Love me like the moon intended, all the way through the darkness." —A.J. Lawless
"The moon is the reflection of your heart, and moonlight is the twinkle of your love." —Debasish Mridha
"I love you to the moon and back." —Sam McBratney
"Love you to the moon and to Saturn." —Taylor Swift
"Cause I never knew, I never knew you could hold moonlight in your hands ‘til the night I held you. You are my moonlight." —Ariana Grande
"Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: — you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars." —e.e. Cummings
"Always remember we are under the same sky, looking at the same moon." —Maxine Lee
"The sun loves the moon so much that he dies every night to let her breathe, and in return, she reflects his love." —Jeffrey Fry
"She and the Moon could always be found playing in the darkness." —A.J. Lawless
"My darling, you can’t see it, can you? How like the moon you are. Both of you so timid in yourselves; hiding pieces from the world. Then, there are those rare moments when you both are full, and it becomes hard to look away." —Alexandria Drzemiecki
"She held the moon the way she held her own heart, as if it was the only light that could guide her through the darkest nights." — Chrissie Pinney

Beautiful Moon Quotes

"Let the moon teach you the art of being beautiful and lonely at the same time." — Anand Thakur
"Just like moons and like suns, with the certainty of tides, just like hopes springing high, still I’ll rise." —Maya Angelou
"So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you. Everything makes music if you really want it to." —Giles Andreae
"Be both soft and wild. Just like the moon. Or the storm. Or the sea." —Victoria Erickson
"Moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting." —Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The moon, like a flower in heaven’s high bower, With silent delight sits and smiles on the night." —William Blake
"Drag me to the moon, to catch a star and seize its brilliance as I’m swept up in amorphous dust." —Bradley Chicho
"The moon was so beautiful that the ocean held up a mirror." —Ani DiFranco
"The Moon dances with me the way the sun never will." —S.B.
"The moon stared at me through sprinkled nighttime stardust and I alone smile." —Jay Long
"The sun watches what I do, but the moon knows all my secrets." —M. Wonderland
"We ran as if to meet the moon." —Robert Frost
"When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator." —Mahatma Gandhi
"The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon." —Jean Ingelow
"The moon is beautiful only when the mind is seeking beauty and the heart is loving." — Debasish Mridha

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Meaningful Moon Quotes

"Everyone is a Moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody." —Mark Twain
"The moon is queen of everything. She rules the oceans, rivers, rain. When I am asked whose tears these are; I always blame the moon." — Lucille Clifton
"There was a reason that she was so romantic about the Moon. It never asked her questions or begged for the answers nor did she ever have to prove herself to it. It was always just there—breathing, shining, and in ways most humans can’t understand: listening." — Christopher Poindexter
"The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen." —Shannon L. Alder
"When I look at the moon I do not see a hostile, empty world. I see the radiant body where man has taken his first steps into a frontier that will never end." —David Scott
"Just as we chose to go to the moon, we know it’s never too soon to choose hope.” —Amanda Gorman
"The day, water, sun, moon, night — I do not have to purchase these things with money." —Plautus
"The Moon can only fill up once it becomes empty. And it can only shine in all its glory once it’s gone through its darkest expression. It doesn’t berate its darkness or wish for it to be any other way (as far as we know)." —Carl Jung
"What other body could pull an entire ocean from shore to shore? The moon is faithful to its nature and its power is never diminished." —Deng Ming-Dao
"He could well imagine what the Moon had given her: pure solitude and tranquility. That was the best thing the Moon could give a person." —Haruki Murakami
"Every day it’s a different version of itself. Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light. The moon understands what it means to be human. Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections." —Tahereh Mafi
"But even when the moon looks like it’s waning…it’s actually never changing shape. Don’t ever forget that." —Ai Yazawa
"God put the moon in the sky to remind us that our darkest moments lead to our brightest." —Lynne Ewing
"Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other." —Sojourner Truth
"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth." —Buddha

Short Moon Quotes

"Be the moon and inspire people, even when you’re far from full." —K. Tolnoe
"Before the moon I am, what a woman is, a woman of power." —Ursula K. Le Guin
"It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon." —Galileo Galilei
"The moon fascinates us in her simplicity." —Avijeet Das
"I like to think that the moon is there, even if I am not looking at it." —Albert Einstein
"Darling, the moon is still the moon in all of its phases." —Isra Al-Thibeh
"The full moon — the mandala of the sky." —Tom Robbins
"Stay wild, moon child." —Riitta Klint
"Go slowly, my lovely moon, go slowly." —Khaled Hosseini
"The new Moon is an auspicious time for a fresh start." —Cerridwen Greenleaf
"The moon is friend for the lonesome to talk to." —Carl Sandburg
"Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars." —J. R. R. Tolkien
"I’m the type of woman that if I want the Moon, I’ll get it down myself." —Frida Kahlo
"There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls." —George Carlin
"With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?" —Oscar Wilde

Jill Gleeson is a travel journalist and memoirist based in the Appalachian Mountains of western Pennsylvania who has written for websites and publications including Good Housekeeping, Woman’s Day, Country Living, Washingtonian, Gothamist, Canadian Traveller, and EDGE Media Network. Jill is the travel editor for Enchanted Living. Learn more about her journey at gleesonreboots.com.

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83 Quotes About the Moon to Shoot for Greatness

These beautiful moon quotes will help you find inspiration and motivation in the sky, in the world and within yourself. Use them to shoot for the moon and achieve greatness.

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Moon Quotes

“We’re gonna chase the moon, chase the moon, chase the moon tonight. We’re gonna leave the world behind.” – Sha Breezie, Chase the Moon

“There’s no point in saving the world if it means losing the moon.” – Tom Robbins

“Praise Him, sun and moon; Praise Him, all stars of light!” – Psalm 148:3

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“That’s the thing about the moon… the closer she gets to you, the rougher the seas. Unless, of course, you are the sun.” – Erin Van Vuren

“Neil and Buzz, I am talking to you by telephone from the Oval Office at the White House, and this certainly has to be the most historic telephone call ever made. Because of what you have done, the heavens have become a part of man’s world. As you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquility, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and tranquility to Earth.” – President Richard M. Nixon

“Nights on the moon. I’m not weightless, but I feel close to it. I can hit heights on the moon.” – Alex Parker, Nights on the Moon

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“Now he had still another dream, and related it to his brothers, and said, ‘Lo, I have had still another dream; and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.’” – Genesis 37:9

“For you, full moon, keep vigil for you, my girl, keep vigil for you, my love.” – Miguel Ángel Sáez Gutiérrez

“When hope is fleeting, stop for a moment and visualize, in a sky of silver, the crescent of a lavender moon. Imagine it — delicate, slim, precise, like a paper-thin slice from a cabochon jewel. It may not be very useful, but it is beautiful. And sometimes it is enough.” – Vera Nazarian

“The moon rested right above the mountains, a place I call home.” – Daniel Wallock

“There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it’s all dark.” – Pink Floyd

“The Moon is not an electric light bulb that you can change with another!” – Avijeet Das

“The lovely moon may not be able to breathe, but it takes our breath away with her incredible beauty and soft silvery love.” – Debasish Mridha MD

“That what secretly flows between us today, will gleam tomorrow, the way the full moon does.” – Rafy Rohaan

“The wisdom of the Moon is greater than the wisdom of the Earth, because the Moon sees the universe better than the Earth can see it.” – Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I feel as though someone’s handed me the moon… and I don’t exactly know what to do with it.” – Lucy Maud Montgomery

“The moon is the sun at your place splashing its rays below but it’s the same art board we stare at!” – Suyasha Subedi

“Be the moon and inspire people, even when you’re far from full.” – K. Tolnoe

“Moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Looking at the moon in the night sky, thinking ’bout the ways it can change lives. Thinking ’bout the way it can change tides. Thinking ’bout how I always miss it in the daytime.” – A.T.S.D., Moon

“Everybody said that the moon won’t fall. It’s been there for time, holding strong and tall. Everybody said that the moon won’t fall. No need to panic, no worries at all.” – FoxyNoTail, Slack’s Fault

“When the eagle landed on the moon, I was speechless—overwhelmed, like most of the world. Couldn’t say a word. I think all I said was, Wow! Jeez! Not exactly immortal. Well, I was nothing if not human.” – Walter Cronkite, CBS News Anchor

“Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born—you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.” – E.E. Cummings

“The wisdom of the Moon is greater than the wisdom of the Earth because the Moon sees the universe better than the Earth can see it.” – Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The moon is a loyal companion. It never leaves. It’s always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do.” – Tahereh Mafi

“The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.” – Lyndon B. Johnson

“The moon — a luminous guide for the poetic musings of my soul.” – Meeta Ahluwalia

“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” – Anton Chekhov

“When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained.” – Psalm 8:3

“As the seas are claimed, the Moon shall be the jewel in the prize. Claimed, not as a safe haven, but as an island of menace within the sky. And the last nail will have been driven home when humanity realizes their inactive mistakes.” – Anthony T. Hincks

“The moon stared at me through sprinkled nighttime stardust and I alone smile.” – Jay Long

“She was like the moon, half here and half somewhere else.” – Meeta Ahluwalia

“If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out.” – William Blake

“The light of the Moon reminds us that when we share the light of others, we shine in our own unique way.” – Suzy Davies

“It shall be established forever like the moon, and the witness in the sky is faithful.” – Psalm 89:37

“I swear, the reason for full moons is so the gods can more clearly see the mischief they create.” – Michael J. Sullivan

“I’d rather live in a world where I get to love the moon than in one where I don’t, even if the moon won’t return the feeling.” – Alex London

“If you strive for the moon, maybe you’ll get over the fence.” – James Wood

“For the moon though one, dispels the darkness, which the stars, though numerous, do not.” – Chanakya

“Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.” – Gautama Buddha

“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.” – Mark Twain

“The moon fascinates us in her simplicity.” – Avijeet Das

“Fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars.” – Frank Sinatra

“She used to tell me that a full moon was when mysterious things happen and wishes come true.” – Shannon A. Thompson

“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.” – Henri Frederic Amiel

“I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.” – Albert Einstein

“During the day the Sun causes wounds. And in the night the Moon heals the wounds. The mountain waits all day for the night when his moon will be finally bright.” – Suyasha Subedi

“The moon is brighter since the barn burned.” – Matsuo Basho

“The moon is alive because of the darkness – how could we ever be afraid of something that gives the stars a home?” – Laura Chouette

“It was the kind of moon that I would want to send back to my ancestors and gift to my descendants so they know that I too have been bruised…by beauty.” – Sanober Khan

“The moon, like a flower in heaven’s high bower, With silent delight Sits and smiles on the night.” – William Blake

“Full moon is a good fisherman; every eye is easily caught in his net!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

“We went to the moon and discovered Earth.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Your thoughts are a veil on the face of the Moon. That Moon is your heart, and those thoughts cover your heart. So let them go, just let them fall into the water.” – Rumi

“You may have the dark and cold street life, ruled by the lessor light of the moon. During this time, I restore my temple, and later awake to greet the awesome radiance of the sun-star.” – T.F. Hodge

“This is not only a full moon for me. This is an image of your face for me.” – Gaurav G.R.V. Sharma

“I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either. Nobody goes faster than the legs they have. If where I want to go is far away, I’m not there in an instant.” – Alberto Caeiro

“The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.” – Shannon L. Alder

“The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky are all asleep tonight.” – William C Bryant

“You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.” – Gary Allan

“There was a man who loved the moon, but whenever he tried to embrace her, she broke into a thousand pieces and left him drenched, with empty arms.” – Laini Taylor

“I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos.” – Tom Hanks

“That’s one small step for [a] man; one giant leap for mankind.” – Neil A. Armstrong, Commander of Apollo 11

“I feel like the moon is a very beautiful woman. She’s in control.” – Ravyn Lenae

“In presence of the Moon nobody sees stars.” – Amit Kalantri

“And if you fit into my world I’ll give you every galaxy. The sun, the sea, the earth, the moon; So tell me, do you feel it too?” – Hailee Smogavec, Over the Moon

“How very wonderful friends the moon, the sea and the night are!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan

“If someday the moon calls you by your name don’t be surprised, because every night I tell her about you. —Shahrazad al” – Khalij

“The magic of autumn has seized the countryside; now that the sun isn’t ripening anything it shines for the sake of the golden age; for the sake of Eden; to please the moon for all I know.” – Elizabeth Coatsworth

“I can’t see the darkness anymore. When I’m staring at the moon, moon I don’t feel the darkness anymore.” – Esy Defrin, Moon

“There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.” – 1 Corinthians 15:41

“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.” – John F. Kennedy

“And all the insects ceased in honor of the moon.” – Jack Kerouac

“Be like the moon in someone’s sky and show her the way of life with your loving silvery lights during the darkness.” – Debasish Mridha MD

“We may look at the same moon, but our hearts sing different songs depending on our inner emotions and perceptions.” – Debasish Mridha MD

“When I look at the moon I do not see a hostile, empty world. I see the radiant body where man has taken his first steps into a frontier that will never end.” – David Scott

“God made the two great lights, the greater light to govern the day, and the lesser light to govern the night.” – Genesis 1:16

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” – Les Brown

“I think a future flight should include a poet, a priest and a philosopher . . . we might get a much better idea of what we saw.” – Michael Collins, Apollo 11

“Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. Then your love would also change.” – William Shakespeare

“Always remember we are under the same sky, looking at the same moon.” – Maxine Lee

“But even when the moon looks like it’s waning…it’s actually never changing shape. Don’t ever forget that.” – Ai Yazawa

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100 Best Moon Quotes That Capture Her Powerful Beauty

These moon quotes are perfect for instagram captions and new or full moon rituals..

Sofia Stewart

Written on Oct 19, 2021

The Moon plays a powerful part in our lives in multiple ways.

Given we are all personally influenced by the Moon's energy every day, the urge to show our gratitude for (and fascination with) her romantic beauty by posting Moon quotes on Instagram or in text to those we love is as naturally compelling as the pull of the Moon itself.

Much of the Moon's beauty lies in the way it remains deeply mysterious while shining a light on that which surrounds us, serving as a guiding light in the darkness while leaving the potential for growth and whatever else we might do with it in our hands.

The moon symbolizes feminity, ruling our emotions through the rhythmic nature of its cycles and inspiraing us to into the world and rediscovering Mother Nature.

The Moon's cycles themselves — New Moon , Crescent Moon, Quarter Moon, Gibbous Moon, Full Moon and back around again — are said to represent immortality and enlightenment.

In astrology, the Moon has a strong influence on all zodiac signs and placements.

The lunar position in your birth chart plays a large role in shaping who you are and how you process your emotions. Additionally, the Moon's placement at any given moment can shine a light on certain predicaments we may not be seeing clearly.

Spritually, the Moon represents your inner world. Whereas the Sun shapes your outward identity and personality, the Moon guides your unconscious feelings and desires.

New Moon and Full Moon rituals allow you to harness the Moon's energy in ways that will enhance your life and spirit.

New Moons are believed to be the ideal time for setting intentions for manifestation, while Full Moons are meant for reflecting on, receiving and expressing gratitude for those manifestations you set in motion during earlier phases.

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Use the collection of the Moon quotes below to honor the Moon and remember to look above you at the night sky, whether in Instagram captions, as part of a New or Full Moon ritual or in romantic messages to someone you love.

100 Best Moon Quotes

1. “the moon can never breathe, but it can take our breath away with the beauty of its cold, arid orb.” — munia khan, 2. “and the sun and the moon sometimes argue over who will tuck me in at night. if you think i am having more fun than anyone on this planet, you are absolutely correct.” — hafiz, 3. “there is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.“ — joseph conrad, 4. "i feel like the moon is a very beautiful woman. she's in control." — ravyn lenae, 5. "there are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls." — george carlin, 6. "shoot for the moon. even if you miss it you will land among the stars." — les brown.

7. “Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.” — J.R.R. Tolkien

8. "don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." — anton chekhov, 9. "those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that looks down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other." — sojourner truth, 10. “there was a man who loved the moon, but whenever he tried to embrace her, she broke into a thousand pieces and left him drenched, with empty arms.” ― laini taylor, 11. "be both soft and wild. just like the moon. or the storm. or the sea." — victoria erickson, 12. "always remember we are under the same sky, looking at the same moon." — maxine lee.

13. "Drag me to the moon, to catch a star and seize its brilliance as I'm swept up in amorphous dust." — Bradley Chicho

14. "she and the moon could always be found playing in the darkness." — a.j. lawless, 15. "with freedom, books, flowers, and the moon who could not be happy" — oscar wilde, 16. "how many ways can you describe the sky and the moon" — toni morrison, 17. "go slowly, my lovely moon, go slowly." — khaled hosseini, 18. “the moon does not fight. it attacks no one. it does not worry. it does not try to crush others. it keeps to its course, but by its very nature, it gently influences. what other body could pull an entire ocean from shore to shore the moon is faithful to its nature and its power is never diminished.” — deng ming-dao.

19. "I'm as old as the moon and the stars, and as young as the trees and the lakes." — Afrika Bambaataa

20. "don't even try to talk to me when i'm watching the moon. that's my moon, baby." — wendelin van draanen.

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21. “Everyone becomes happy and appreciates the moon in their own special way. Children watch their shadows and play in its light, people gather at the square to tell stories and dance through the night. A lot of happy things happen when the moon shines.” — Ishmael Beah

22. “go slowly, my lovely moon, go slowly.” — khaled hosseini, "the kite runner", 23. “everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.” — mark twain, 24. “when one starts thinking of the full moon as a common sight that will come again to one’s eyes ad-infinitum, the value of life is diminished and life goes by uncherished.” — roman payne.

25. “Drink in the moon as though you might die of thirst.” — Sanober Khan

26. “i swear, the reason for full moons is so the gods can more clearly see the mischief they create.” — michael j. sullivan, 27. “this is not only a full moon for me. this is an image of your face for me.” — gaurav g.r.v. sharma, 28. “this is what i’m talking about: the bewitching power of moonlight. moonlight incites dark passions like a cold flame, making hearts burning with the intensity of phosphorus.” — rampo edogawa, 29. “with the light all around us, we felt secret in that moon–infused water like pearls forming in the soft tissues of oysters.” — pat conroy, 30. “and all the insects ceased in honor of the moon.” — jack kerouac, 31. “do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.” ― william shakespeare, "romeo and juliet", 32. “it is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the moon.” — galileo galilei.

33. “We love the night and its quiet; and there is no night that we love so well as that on which the moon is coffined in clouds.” — Fitz-James O'Brien, Classic Ghost Stories by Wilkie Collins, M.R. James, Charles Dickens and Others

34. “that what secretly flows between us today, will gleam tomorrow, the way full moon does.” — rafy rohaan, 35. “the journey of the sun and moon is predictable, but yours is your ultimate art.” — suzy kassem, rise up and salute the sun: the writings of suzy kassem, 36. “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.” — henri frederic amiel, 37. “for you, full moon, keep vigil for you, my girl, keep vigil for you, my love.” — miguel ángel sáez gutiérrez, 38. “in part. she sat down and pulled her necklace out of her shirt. i read about it in my mother's journal. the witches believe we are all parts of a whole. like the phases of the moon. together, we complete the circle and bring balance.” — amber argyle, witch song.

39. “She is the magic of a full moon light!” — Avijeet Das

40. “a full moon hung across the heavens like a pregnant belly.” — kien nguyen.

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41. ”A full moon is poison to some; they shut it out at every crevice, and do not suffer a ray to cross them; it has a chemical or magical effect; it sickens them. But I am never more free and royal than when the subtile celerity of its magic combinations, whatever they are, is at work.” — Harriet Prescott Spofford

42. “there might be a connection between the moon’s energy when it’s full and the electrical impulses in the brain.” — colin cotterill, 43. “the full moon appears at night with all its might and erases all the stars from the sky do the same to impress the world, stand in front of the world with all your strength and all your being” — mehmet murat ildan, 44. “the moon shines full on the full of the moon.” — anthony t. hinks.

45. “She used to tell me that a full moon was when mysterious things happen and wishes come true.” — Shannon A. Thompson

46. “the moon was reigning over their world, glowing its full splendor to all those willing to look up.” — irina serban, 47. "life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that." — coolio, 48. "i love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected." — gloria vanderbilt, 49. “i still say, ‘shoot for the moon; you might get there.'” — buzz aldrin, 50. “the moon is a loyal companion. it never leaves. it’s always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do. every day it’s a different version of itself. sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light. the moon understands what it means to be human. uncertain. alone. cratered by imperfections.” — tahereh mafi.

51. “The moon in all her immaculate purity hung in the sky, laughing at this world of dust. She congratulated me for my carefully considered maneuvers and invited me to share in her eternal solitude.” — Shan Sa, Empress

52. “the moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.” — shannon l. alder, 53. "i always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos." — tom hanks, 54. “but even when the moon looks like it’s waning … it’s actually never changing shape. don’t ever forget that.” — ai yazawa, 55. “the beautiful moon is an antidepressant. love for her light is in every heart because she is so friendly, loving and forgiving.” — debasish mridha md, 56. “full moon is a good fisherman; every eyes are easily caught in his net” — mehmet murat ildan.

57. “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.” — John F. Kennedy

58. “during the day the sun causes wounds. and in the night the moon heals the wounds. the mountain waits all day for the night when his moon will be finally bright.” — suyasha subedi, 59. “you are the sun. you bring warmth, laughter, and joy — but he is the moon. he draws me into a world of mystery that i have never known.” — meredith t. taylor, 60. “the moon is the queen of everything. she rules the oceans, rivers, rain. when i am asked whose tears these are; i always blame the moon.” — lucille clifton.

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61. “Be like the moon in someone’s sky and show her the way of life with your loving silvery lights during the darkness.” — Debasish Mridha MD

62. "don't worry if you're making waves just by being yourself. the moon does it all the time." — scott stabile.

63. “Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.”— Gautama Buddha

64. “we may look at the same moon, but our hearts sing different songs depending on our inner emotions and perceptions.” — debasish mridha md, 65. “the moon is the first milestone on the road to the stars.” — arthur c. clarke, 66. “the wisdom of the moon is greater than the wisdom of the earth because the moon sees the universe better than the earth can see it.” — mehmet murat ildan, 67. "oh, don't let's ask for the moon. we've already got the stars." — bette davis, 68. “the moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.” — carl sandburg.

69. “When the storm is over and night falls and the moon is out in all its glory and all you’re left with is the rhythm of the sea, of the waves, you know what God intended for the human race, you know what paradise is.” — Harold Pinter

70. “the moon understands what it means to be human. uncertain. alone. cratered by imperfections.” — tahereh mafi, 71. “the moon is friend for the lonesome to talk to.” — carl sandburg, 72. “i never really thought about how when i look at the moon, it’s the same moon as shakespeare and marie antoinette and george washington and cleopatra looked at.” — susan beth pfeffer, 73. “i want to be in love with you the same way i am in love with the moon with the light shining out of its soul.” — sanober khan, 74. “i can feel the moon’s love for the earth in my soul when it’s magical silent silvery light touches my heart.” — debasish mridha md.

75. "If you strive for the Moon, maybe you'll get over the fence." — James Woods

76. “the moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.” — shannon l. alder, 77. “there’s no point in saving the world if it means losing the moon.” — tom robbins, 78. “the moon rested right above the mountains, a place i call home.” — daniel wallock, 79. “the moon had been observing the earth close-up longer than anyone. it must have witnessed all of the phenomena occurring—and all of the acts carried out—on this earth. but the moon remained silent; it told no stories.” — haruki murakami, 80. “the sun loves the moon so much that he dies every night to let her breathe, and in return, she reflects his love.” — jeffrey fry, "distilled thoughts".

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81. “Many solemn nights blond moon, we stand and marvel...Sleeping our noons away.” — Teitoku

82. “it was the kind of moon that i would want to send back to my ancestors and gift to my descendants so they know that i too, have been bruised...by beauty.” — sanober khan, 83. “what was supposed to be so special about a full moon it was only a big circle of light. and the dark of the moon was only darkness. but halfway between the two, when the moon was between the worlds of light and dark when even the moon lived on the edge...maybe then a witch could believe in the moon.” — terry pratchett, witches abroad, 84. “the moon is the reflection of your heart and moonlight is the twinkle of your love.” — debasish mridha, 85. “the moon is the friendliest of the celestial bodies, after all, glowing warm and white and welcoming, like a friend who wants only to know that all of us are safe in our narrow worlds, our narrow yards, our narrow, well-considered lives.” — seanan mcguire, 86. “when i admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.” — mahatma gandhi.

87. “I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either.” — Alberto Caeiro

88. "i am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world." — antoine de saint-exupéry, the little prince, 89. "the lovers of god never run out of patience, for they know that time is needed for the crescent moon to become full." — rumi, 90. "the reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the sun after a total eclipse, the rising of the sun in the morning after its troublesome absence at night were noted by people around the world; these phenomena spoke to our ancestors of the possibility of surviving death. up there in the skies was also a metaphor of immortality." — carl sagan, 91. "the moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon." — jean ingelow, 92. “when hope is fleeting, stop for a moment and visualize, in a sky of silver, the crescent of a lavender moon. imagine it — delicate, slim, precise, like a paper-thin slice from a cabochon jewel. it may not be very useful, but it is beautiful. and sometimes it is enough.” — vera nazarian, 93. perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt at being told that it is a fragment awaiting perfection. — rabindranath tagore, 94. "there's something enchanted about the night. all those heavenly bodies, shooting stars, the crescent moon, celestial phenomenon." — luanne rice, 95. "here is something you have to understand about stories: they point you in the right direction but they can't take you all the way there. stories are crescent moons; they glimmer in the night sky, but they are most exquisite in their incomplete state. because people crave the beauty of not-knowing, the excitement of suggestion, and the sweet tragedy of mystery." — diana abu-jaber, 96. "what does patience mean it means to look at the thorn and see the rose, to look at the night and see the dawn. impatience means to be short-sighted as to not be able to see the outcome. the lovers of god never run out of patience, for they know that time is needed for the crescent moon to become full." — shams tabrizi, 97. "i wish to cry. yet, i laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on top of the beer can." — sylvia plath, 98. “she was like the moon, half here and half somewhere else.” ― meeta ahluwalia, 99. “a crescent moon and an innocent shall find their glory and adoration at the end of the tunnel.” ― p.s. jagadeesh kumar, 100. “the crescent moon in the sky appeared and disappeared between the branches and the thickets, or behind the playful diaphanous night clouds, like the jewel in the crown that shines or blurs according to the destiny of the empire.” ― mukta singh-zocchi, "the thugs and a courtesan".

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Sofia Stewart is a writer who covers music, self-care, and spirituality.

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103 Best Travel Quotes to Inspire your Wanderlust (2024)

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For all those out there with hearts full of reisefieber (that’s German for travel fever), this post goes out to you. I’ve collected the 103 best travel quotes to fuel your wanderlust, caption your Instagram posts, and inspire your next adventure. I hope you enjoy.

This post was updated November 2023.

Quotes That Define Travel

1.”Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things—air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky—all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” -Cesare Pavese

2. “Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.’” -Lisa St. Aubin de Teran

3. “Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” -Mary Ritter Beard

How Travel Defines Us

4. “If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet.” -Patrick Rothfuss

5. “So much of who we are is where we have been.” -William Langewiesche

6. “You get a strange feeling when you leave a place. Like you’ll not only miss the people you love, but you miss the person you are at this time and place because you’ll never be this way ever again.” -Azar Nafisi

7. “One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are.” -Edith Wharton

8. “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” -Shirley Maclaine

Quotes About Why We Travel

9. “I’ll never be content to stay forever in one place. I’m too madly in love with all the places I haven’t been, the people I haven’t met, the food I haven’t tried, and the streets I haven’t danced on.” -Brooke Hamptom

10. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” -Robyn Yong

11. “We travel initially to lose ourselves; and we travel next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe where riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again—to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.” -Patrick Rothfuss

12. “To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” -Bill Bryson

13. “We travel because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something inside our minds has changed, and that changes everything.” -Jonah Lehrer

14. “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” -Jack Kerouac

15. “I travel because I’d rather look back at my life, saying ‘I can’t believe I did that’ instead of ‘If only I had…’” -Florine Bos

16. “I need to move around a bit. To shuffle my surroundings. To wake up in cities I don’t know my way around and have conversations in languages I cannot entirely comprehend. There is always this tremendous longing in my heart to be lost, to be someplace else, to be far far away from all of this.” -Beau Taplin

We were made to move

17. “I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question.” -Harun Yahya

18. “A ship at harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” -John A Shedd

19. “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.” -Rachel Wolchin

Quotes About How Travel Changes Us

20. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” -Ibn Batutta

21. “At its best, travel should challenge our perceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding.” -Arthur Frommer

22. “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes

23. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” -Gustave Flaubert

24. “Travel sparks our imagination, feeds our curiosity and reminds us how much we all have in common.” -Deborah Lloyd

25. “I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” -Mary Anne Radmacher

Travel Quotes About Home

26. “You will never be completely home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.” -Miriam Adeney

27. “We are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. We are homesick most for the places we have never known.” -Carson McCullers

28. “A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.” -Henry Rollins

29. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” -Robert Louis Stevenson

30. “Wild hearts find a home in every place they roam.” -C. Churchill

31. “A man does not belong to the place where he was born, but where he chooses to die.” -Orson Welles

Proverbs From Around the World

32. “Your feet will take you where your heart is.” -Irish Proverb

33. “He who is outside his door already has the hardest part of his journey behind him.” -Dutch Proverb

34. “Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.” -Chinese Proverb

35. “Who lives sees much. Who travels sees more.” -Arab Proverb

On the Journey, the Road, the Destination

36. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” -Lao Tzu

37. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” -Susan Sontag

38. “I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.” -David Bowie

39. “The best journeys are the ones that answer questions that at the onset you never thought to ask.” -Rick Ridgeway

40. “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” -Lao Tzu

41. “Because the greatest part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination. It’s all the wild stuff that happens along the way.” -Emma Chase

42. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I—I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” -Robert Frost

43. “There are roads left in both of our shoes.” -Death Cab for Cutie, Soul Meets Body

Travel Quotes About Tourists v. Travelers

44. “When a man is a Traveler, the world is his house and the sky is his roof, where he hangs his hat is his home, and all the people are his family.” -Drew Bundini Brown

45. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” -Paul Theroux

46. “The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.” -G. K. Chesterton

47. “Please be a traveler, not a tourist. Try new things, meet new people, and look beyond what’s right in front of you. Those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live in.” -Andrew Zimmern

Travel Quotes From Explorers and Travel Writers

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Freya Stark (1893-1993) was a British/Italian explorer and travel writer. She traveled extensively in the Middle East, Mediterranean, and Asia. In fact, she was one of the first non-Arabs to cross the Arabian Desert.

48. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.” -Freya Stark

49. “Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.” -Freya Stark

Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain (1956-2018), chef, travel writer and documentarian. This is a man who needs no introduction. He taught us about other cultures and countries, unapologetically examining both the good and the bad with raw honesty and respect.

50. “Travel is not reward for working, it’s education for living.” -Anthony Bourdain

51. “Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.” -Anthony Bourdain

52. “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.” -Anthony Bourdain

Pico Iyer (1957–) is a contemporary British travel writer. He tends to focus his writing on often over-looked topics. For example, he examines the disconnect between local tradition and global pop culture, the cultural repercussions of isolation, and how travel can help us find a calm and stillness in today’s busy pace.

53. “A person susceptible to ‘wanderlust’ is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.” -Pico Iyer

54. “Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.” -Pico Iyer

55. “And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.” -Pico Iyer

56. “Anybody who travels knows that you’re not really doing so in order to move around—you’re traveling in order to be moved. And really what you’re seeing is not just the Grand Canyon or the Great Wall but some moods or intimations or places inside yourself that you never ordinarily see when you’re sleepwalking through your daily life.” -Pico Iyer

Travel Quotes From Naturalists

57. “Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” -Henry David Thoreau

58. “The world is big, and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.” -John Muir

59. “Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.” -John Muir

60. “Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.” -John Muir

Travel Quotes From Great Literary Authors

61. “To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, to gain all while you give, to roam the roads of lands remote, to travel is to live.” -Hans Christian Anderson

62. “For always roaming with a hungry heart, much have I seen and known.” -Alfred Tennyson

63. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.” -Oscar Wilde

64. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.” -T. S. Elliot

65. “It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what’s changed is you.” -F Scott Fitzgerald

66. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” -Mark Twain

67. “Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God.” -Kurt Vonnegut

68. “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all people cry, laugh, eat, worry and diet, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” -Maya Angelou

Travel Quotes From Books

69. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” -Herman Melville, Moby Dick

70. “It is a big and beautiful world. Most of us live and die in the same corner where we were born and never get to see any of it. I don’t want to be most of us.” -Oberyn Martell, Game of Thrones

71. “Travel far enough to meet yourself.” -David Mitchel, Cloud Atlas

72. “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” -Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

73. “Would you like an adventure now or shall we have our tea first?” -Peter Pan

74. “Not all those who wander are lost.” -J.J.R. Tolkien

75. “It’s a dangerous business…going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” -J.R.R. Tolkien

Travel Quotes on Books and Education

76. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” -St. Augustine

77. “I read, I travel, I become.” -Derek Walcott

78. “Of all the books in all the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport.” -Saber Ben Hassen

79. “With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” -Sandra Lake

80. “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled.” -Muhammad

Travel Quotes About Wealth

81. “Travel is the only thing you can buy that makes you richer.” -Anonymous

82. “I would rather own a little and see the world than own the world and see a little of it.” -Alexander Sattler

83. “Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.” -Alexander Solzhenitsyn

84. “To travel is to possess the world.” -Burton Holmes

Quotes on Adventure

85. “Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.” -Lovelle Drachman

86. “If happiness is the goal—and it should be, then adventures should be a priority.” -Richard Branson

87. “Nothing adventured, nothing attained.” -Peter McWilliams

88. “You must go on adventures to find out where you truly belong.” -Sue Fitzmaurice

89. “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” -Jawaharlal Nehru

90. “Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.” -Marty Rubin

Travel Quotes That Offer Advice

91. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” -Dalai Lama

92. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” -Stephen Covey

93. “We must travel in the direction of our fear.” -John Berryman

94. “Cover the earth before it covers you.” -Dagobert D Runes

95. “Travel while you’re young and able. Don’t worry about the money, just make it work. Experience is far more valuable than money will ever be.” -David Avocado Wolfe

96. “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” -Susan Heller

97. “Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints, kill nothing but time.” -Aliyyah Eniath

98. “If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.” -Cesare Pavese

99. “When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” -Clifton Fadiman

100. “Do yourself a favor. Before it’s too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late.” -Jhumpa Lahiri

Travel Memories

101. “We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone.” -Travelermentality

102. “I have worn the dust of many foreign streets, but to brush it off would surely be a crime. I have the memories of many foreign adventures, but to forget them, would surely be a sin. So, breath in the dust, and keep the memories in.” -Rowland Waring-Flood

103. Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know why I look this way. I’ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved.” -Will Rogers

Without a doubt, there are a lot of amazing travel quotes out there. However, I’ve only shared a few of them. Do you have a favorite quote I missed? I’d love to hear from you. So tell me, what are your favorite travel quotes, and why do they speak to you?

Also, if you’re looking for a little more travel inspiration, check out Clarice’s Travel Bucket List . Or if you’re looking for more quotes, you can check out 13 John Muir Quotes for the Adventurers at Heart , too.

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100 Sweet "Happy Anniversary" Quotes to Write in a Card

Wish your husband or wife — or another special couple — all the best with these sentimental messages.

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Cute anniversary quotes for couples and friends, famous anniversary quotes, anniversary quotes for parents, anniversary wishes for milestones.

These anniversary quotes, wishes and messages encompass all that and more, and are inspirational enough for when you need a sweet message to write inside an anniversary card or something thoughtful to share face-to-face with the couple ringing in another year together. And if you’re one half of the couple celebrating said anniversary, share one of these sentiments with a more personalized touch by including personal anecdote about the night you met, a funny story that’ll make you both laugh or even reflect on a hard time that really tested the both of you but inevitably showed how strong your bond really is.

Romantic Anniversary Quotes for Husband or Wife

"You're my best friend, my partner in crime, my better half, my everything. Happy anniversary, my love."
"Even after all of these years, my love for you grows more and more each day."
"Thank you for picking me. I don't know how I got so lucky."
"You're my sun and moon, and all of my stars. I love you so much. Happy anniversary!"
"You're everything I've ever wanted and needed in a partner. Thank you for loving me. Happy anniversary."
"I’m pretty confident that no one on earth is as lucky as me. Why? Because I get to wake up to you every day. Happy anniversary, baby!"
"You can read my mind without me uttering a single word. We’re soulmates, and I’m eternally grateful that the universe brought us together. Cheers to a lifetime together. Happy anniversary."
"Our deep, unbreakable connection is something I’ve always dreamed of. I’ll never take our bond for granted. Wishing us a blissful lifetime together. Happy anniversary!"
"You’re the person who I can count on unconditionally. Without your unwavering love and support, I don’t think I’d be the person I am today. Happy anniversary, honey."
"Walking alongside you is the greatest journey of my life. I’ll cherish you always. Happy anniversary."
"Your face brings a smile to my face every day and for that I’m forever grateful. Happy anniversary to the person who makes my heart sing."
"It’s a privilege to be in your presence. You’re not only a loving partner, but you’re also just an overall amazing person. Happy anniversary!"
“I am so blessed that I get to spend the rest of my life with you. Happy anniversary, baby!”
“I couldn’t survive a day without you. I’m so glad we’ve lived to see another year together.”
“Marrying you was the best thing that’s ever happened to me.”
“Our wedding day may not have been perfect, but it was the happiest day of my life. Thank you for being by my side for all these years.”
“This is our first year together, but we have an eternity to go!”
“Happy anniversary, honey. You make my life sweeter.”
“I can’t believe that I’m married to my best friend. Thank you for making each year together better than the last.”
“Nothing on earth compares to my love for you. Happy anniversary to my better half.”
“You’re the most wonderful person I’ve ever met. I can’t believe I get to be by your side for the rest of my life.”
“Saying ‘I do’ was the best decision of my life. After all these years, I’m so grateful that you said it too!”
“When I wake up to you every day, I’m reminded of hitting the love jackpot. You’re the best. Happy anniversary, sweetheart.”
“When I think of all the blessings in my life, you’re the first to come to mind. Thank you for being my person. I love you.”
“You’re my air and I can’t imagine life without you. I love you today and forever. Happy anniversary.”
“My love for you is everlasting. Cheers to another year with my favorite person.”
“I’ll always be your #1 fan. No matter what we’re going through, I’ll always cheer you on. Wishing us a lifetime together.”
“When I look into your eyes, I see the most wonderful person in the world.”
“Still in this together. Thanks for going on this lifetime journey with me. Love you forever.”
“I never dreamed that I would find a love like yours. I’m the luckiest person in the world.”

"We’ve made another trip around the sun together, and I still can’t believe you’re still willing to take these trips with me!"
"We’re on the crazy journey of life together, and I can’t think of a wackier co-pilot. Thanks for always being you in all your wacky glory. Happy anniversary, sweetie."
"You’re the cream to my coffee — I’ll always have the hots for you! Happy anniversary, babe!"
"At times, we may be like fire and ice, it’s a wonder we haven’t combusted!'
"We go together like peanut butter and jelly. With your big belly, you’re clearly the jelly! Happy anniversary, sweetie."
"Nobody understands me the way that you do. I wonder why? Maybe we’re really the same person just in two very different bodies! Happy birthday, my handsome better half!"
"As we grow old together, just remember that I’ll always be the young, hot one! To many more years together. I love you!"
“Happy anniversary. You’re the perfect choice for my first spouse!”
“A wedding band is the smallest handcuff ever made. I’m glad I chose my cellmate wisely.”
“Thank you for growing old with me. It’s a good thing I find wrinkles adorable!”
“Happy anniversary – I can’t believe you’re still with me!”
“I’ve always wanted the best for you – which is obviously me!”
“A good marriage is like a casserole—only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.”
“Morning breath and all, you’re still the one I want to wake up to. Happy anniversary, my love.”
“A marriage anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.”

cute anniversary quotes for couples and friends

"I’ve never seen a couple so right for each other. You two are a beautiful example of what it means to be happily married. Wishing you many more years together!"
"Separately you’re both powerful individuals, but together as a pair — you’re unstoppable! Happy anniversary to one of my favorite couples!"
"You’re such a beautiful couple who complement each other in enviable ways. Stay true to one another and you’ll be together for a lifetime! Happy anniversary."
"You do a remarkable job of making marriage look easy. You should teach a class! Happy anniversary to a special couple."
"May God continue to cover and bless you as a couple. Happy anniversary!"
"Cheers to a couple who exemplify a good and healthy partnership. Happy anniversary."
“I admire your union. Happy anniversary.”
“What a beautiful and loving couple. Wishing you a lifetime of wedded bliss.”
“Family gatherings wouldn’t be the same without you guys. Happy anniversary to one of my favorite couples!”
“You two are so great to know and be around. Can you adopt me?”
“I couldn’t ask for a better brother-in-law. Thank you for taking my sister off of my hands! Just kidding, happy anniversary!”
“You two are the most adorable love birds I’ve ever known. Wishing you a lifetime of love.”
“No other couple complements each other the way that you do. Happy anniversary to the beautiful pair who makes marriage look so easy!”
“Spending time with you guys is one of my favorite pastimes. You make life more enjoyable. Happy anniversary!”
“No marriage is perfect, but you guys come really close. Happy anniversary.”
“May God continue to cover and bless you in your union.”
“Who said marriage was hard? Not you guys because you make it seem absolutely effortless. Happy anniversary.”
“I marvel at the wonderful life you’ve built together. You guys could teach a class on how to do marriage right. Congratulations!”
“Wow, another year in the books! You guys work so well together. Happy anniversary.”

“A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.” — Paul Sweeney
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” — Aristotle
“I wouldn't change a thing, as happiness you bring. You are my soulmate. A marriage made by fate.” — Catherine Pulsifer
“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” — Robert Heinlein
"Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years." — Simone Signoret
“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.”— Maya Angelou
“You know you are in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” — Dr. Seuss
“I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect, and I loved you even more.” — Angelita Lim
“The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time.” — Julia Child
“Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.”— Zane Grey
“All that you are is all that I’ll ever need.” — Ed Sheeran
“You are my today and all of my tomorrows.” — Lee Christopher
“You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known and even that is an understatement.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. That’s what I hope to give you forever.” — Nicholas Sparks
“Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.”— Barnette R. Brickner

"You two were made for each other. I'm living proof! Happy anniversary, mom and dad."
"To the couple whose love I get to watch grow stronger and stronger everyday, happy anniversary."
"You two are the reason I know what love is. Happy anniversary to the best parents."
"The best thing to come out of your relationship? Me, of course! I mean, the best, most loving parents."
"You’re the parents all kids hope to have, and I’m so lucky to call you my role models. Happy anniversary!"
"I’ve grown up watching what it meant to be a loving and caring couple. Thank you for being the blueprint for a healthy marriage. Happy anniversary!"
"You both show me what real love looks like. To the imperfectly perfect couple I call my parents, happy anniversary!"
"Love isn’t easy, but loving you two is. Happy anniversary to the best parents!"
"To my best friends, role models and most importantly, parents, happy anniversary!"
"Your love is what keeps this family rooted. Celebrating you two today and every day. Happy anniversary!"
"It’s the perfect day to celebrate the most special people. Happy anniversary, parents!"

"Hope the next [10] years are even happier than your [first decade] together!"
"It started with a dream of a life together, and the dream only gets better. Cheers to [insert number] year of marriage!"
"High-five to your [insert number]-year milestone."
"Five years, 60 months, 260 weeks, or 1,825 days—however you count it, it all adds up to love."
"One decade down; forever to go."
"A quarter may not sound like a lot in money, but in marriage centuries, you two prove it's worth a fortune."
"For your 25th year in marriage, may you receive more silver gifts than you have silver in your hair."
"Even though the years continue to pass, my love for you only grows stronger. Happy [30th] anniversary!"
"Fifty years later and all that glitters is still gold."
"Congratulations on a love story that has stood the test of time — 70 years and counting!"

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The biggest bombshells from Michael Cohen's testimony were all in Trump's own words

Michael Cohen gave his long-awaited testimony Monday in Trump's hush-money trial.
Much of his most damning testimony came when he quoted what he described as Trump's own words.
He testified that Trump knew exactly what was going on when Cohen paid hush money to Stormy Daniels.

When Michael Cohen was arranging hush-money payments for Stormy Daniels , he tried very hard to keep Donald Trump's name out of it.

But in his under-oath testimony for Trump's criminal trial on Monday, Cohen placed Trump firmly in the room where it happened.

Trump's attorney-turned-nemesis quoted his former boss extensively, telling jurors about key moments when the billionaire-turned-candidate participated fully in the plot to keep Daniels quiet ahead of the 2016 election.

The Manhattan district attorney's office has accused Trump of falsifying 34 different documents — including checks bearing Trump's signature — to hide an election-influencing, $130,000 hush-money payment that silenced the porn star 11 days before the vote.

Trump's legal team has cast all the blame on Cohen, suggesting he went rogue and came up with the hush-money scheme without the former president's approval.

On the witness stand, Cohen spoke cautiously, walking jurors through his long history as Trump's sometimes-bullying "fixer." Trump, having heard much of the story before, appeared almost bored at the defense table. For minutes at a time, he closed his eyes and leaned back in his chair without moving.

Here are nine key moments in Cohen's testimony when he did the greatest damage to his former boss simply by quoting what he said were Trump's own words.

1. "Just be prepared — there's going to be a lot of women coming forward."

Cohen, who began working for Trump in 2007, talked to Trump for years about running for president. Cohen testified that the real-estate mogul had considered a campaign in 2011 but ultimately decided against it, resolving to run in the "next election cycle."

In 2015, Trump told Cohen he would run for president.

"You know when this comes out," Cohen said, quoting Trump talking about the announcement, "just be prepared — there's going to be a lot of women coming forward."

It was in that context, Cohen said, that he met with the American Media Inc. publisher David Pecker in Trump Tower to discuss pushing positive stories about Trump in publications such as the National Enquirer and to get a heads-up about stories that could damage the campaign.

"What he said was that he could keep an eye out for anything negative about Mr. Trump and that he would be able to help us know in advance what was coming out and to try to stop it from coming out," Cohen testified.

2. "That's fantastic. That's unbelievable ."

The meeting with Pecker was a success.

The National Enquirer ran a series of positive articles about Trump and sensationalistic articles attacking his opponents. It claimed that Hillary Clinton wore "very thick glasses" to bolster a conspiracy theory of a brain injury, that Ted Cruz's father was photographed hanging out with Lee Harvey Oswald, and that Marco Rubio participated in a "drug binge" with a group of men in a swimming pool.

Trump was over the moon, Cohen testified.

"That's fantastic. That's unbelievable," Cohen quoted Trump as saying.

Pecker was happy , too, Cohen said. Trump's celebrity overlapped with the National Enquirer's target audience of people who bought magazines at grocery-store checkouts.

Trump's knowledge of how Cohen was working with the National Enquirer bolsters the prosecutors' theory that all these machinations were about supporting Trump's campaign. Personal issues — such as keeping news of an alleged affair away from Melania Trump — were secondary.

3. "Make sure it doesn't get released. "

In June of 2016, Cohen got a call from AMI telling him a former Playboy playmate, Karen McDougal , was shopping around a story about having sex with Trump.

When Cohen told Trump about it, his response was, "She's really beautiful," Cohen said.

"Okay. But there is a story that's right now being shopped," Cohen said he replied.

Trump supposedly said to Cohen, "Make sure it doesn't get released," instructing him to work with Pecker and the National Enquirer editor to purchase the rights to McDougal's story — and then make sure it never got to see the light of day.

Pecker came back to Cohen and said it'd cost $150,000 to "control the story," Cohen testified.

"No problem. I will take care of it," Cohen quoted Trump as saying.

4. "Do it. Take care of it."

In 2011 — long before Trump ran for president on the Republican ticket — Cohen was involved in convincing another gossip website to pull an article involving Daniels and Trump.

TheDirty.com ran an interview with Daniels in which she talked, in broad strokes, about a fling with Trump at a celebrity golf tournament in 2006. Trump wanted the story taken down.

"I said I'll take care of it," Cohen testified Monday. "He said, 'Absolutely, do it, take care of it.'"

Cohen said he threatened to sue TheDirty.com's publisher, and the story disappeared from the website.

Perhaps most damningly is what Trump didn't say to Cohen.

Cohen said he asked, but Trump wouldn't tell him whether he and Daniels really had sex .

5. "Women will hate me. Guys, they'll think it's cool."

Daniels dropped out of Trump's life again from 2011 through much of 2016.

Weeks before the election, she returned with the force of a hurricane.

It was just after The Washington Post published the " Access Hollywood " tape, which Trump believed hurt his reputation among women voters.

Keith Davidson, Daniels' lawyer, was in talks with the National Enquirer about the rights to her story, in which she could share all the vivid details about what she said was a sexual encounter with Trump.

Trump was livid, Cohen said.

"I thought you had this under control. I thought you took care of this," Cohen recalled Trump saying.

Cohen said Trump commanded him to "just take care of it," with the former president saying he was too busy with other parts of the campaign.

Cohen also testified that Trump acknowledged his polling with women was poor and understood the damage that Daniels' story could do to his candidacy — a key detail for prosecutors, who are aiming to show jurors that Trump wanted to suppress Daniels's story for his own campaign.

"This was a disaster. A total disaster. Women are going to hate me," Trump supposedly told Cohen. "This is a real disaster. Women will hate me. Guys, they'll think it was cool."

Trump ordered Cohen to work with Pecker to get the story under control.

"Get control over this. Get the life rights," Cohen quoted Trump as saying. "We needed to control this from coming out."

6. "Meet up with Allen Weisselberg and figure this whole thing out."

Cohen testified that in mid-October 2016, when discussing the idea of cutting a hush-money deal with Daniels, Trump told Cohen to get Allen Weisselberg, the then-Trump Organization chief financial officer, on the case to figure it out.

"Meet up with Allen Weisselberg and figure this whole thing out," Cohen recalled Trump saying.

"Just pay it," Cohen testified that Trump also told him. "There's no reason to keep this thing out there."

7. "If I win, it has no relevance because I'm president. And if I lose, I don't even care."

But when the time came to cut an actual check, Trump — ever the penny-pincher — didn't actually want to pay Daniels anything, Cohen testified.

Cohen said Trump's goal was to postpone the payment until after the November 2016 election, at which point he didn't think it would matter.

"If I win, it has no relevance because I'm president," Cohen quoted from Trump. "And if I lose, I don't even care."

"He wasn't thinking about Melania," Cohen added of Trump. "This was all about the campaign."

Cohen would wind up borrowing the money on a home-equity loan and paying personally. He would wire the money to Daniels' lawyer just 11 days before the election, according to records in evidence at the trial.

8. " Good. Good. Don't worry you'll get it back. "

When Trump learned from Cohen and Weisselberg that his then-fixer would foot the $130,000 payment to Daniels, he assured Cohen he'd get the money back.

"Allen and I spoke to Mr. Trump," Cohen said. "And we expressed to him that I was going to front the money for it." Trump "was appreciative," Cohen testified.

Cohen said Trump responded by saying: "Good. Good. Don't worry, you'll get it back."

With Trump unwilling to pay himself, it was the only way to silence Daniels and protect "the boss," Cohen said.

Weisselberg had floated the idea of tapping the money from someone who was about to pay for a golf-club membership or to see whether someone wanted credit for a bar mitzvah or wedding.

But that would mean using Trump money, Cohen noted, and the whole point was keeping the boss' name off things.

Cohen said he suggested to Weisselberg that he pay, noting of the then-CFO's salary, "You have seven figures."

"Michael, as you know, I have my four grandkids at prep school," Cohen recalled Weisselberg demurring. "And I have summer camps I'm paying for them, and I just can't do it."

"I ultimately said, 'OK, I'll pay it,'" Cohen told jurors.

9. "Don't worry about that other thing."

Cohen said he was livid in December 2016 when the then-president-elect stiffed him on his expected holiday bonus.

"I used quite a few expletives" complaining to Weisselberg, Cohen told jurors. "I was, even for myself, unusually angry."

Word must have got back to Trump, who was spending the holiday at Mar-a-Lago in Florida.

"Did Mr. Trump call you while you were on vacation?" the prosecutor Susan Hoffinger asked.

"He did," Cohen answered. He added that after a few tense pleasantries, Trump assured him: "Don't worry about that other thing. I'm going to take care of it when I get back."

"We'll take care of it when we all get back," Cohen recalled Trump promising.

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Endless Ocean Luminous – How to Unlock all 99 Mystery Board Squares

Endless Ocean Luminous , the latest in Nintendo and developer Arika’s cult aquatic exploration games, is out now, and completing the game’s story mode is no easy task. Doing so requires you to completely fill in the “Mystery Board,” a grid featuring 99 different achievement-style tasks. To make matters even more complicated, the game doesn’t inform you how to solve any of these mysteries, you just have to stumble on the solutions yourself through trial and error. But hey, if you're not up for that grind, scroll on down for our guide to unlocking all 99 squares on the Mystery Board.

Mystery Board Basics

The maps in Endless Ocean Luminous are procedurally generated, which means I can’t provide you with specific locations or instructions on how to unlock any of the squares on the Mystery Board – it’s all luck of the draw. That said, there are different types of achievements on the board, so here’s some guidance on how to approach them.

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Disc Puzzles – These mysteries ask you to “swim aside” a specific creature (look at #32 below for an example). How these puzzles work, is you have to find a large disc on the ocean floor and scan it. You’ll then be given a clue. Determine what creature the clue was referring to, find them, have them swim with you and return to the disc with them.
UMLs – Number 9 though 18 on the board require you to scan specific UMLs (Unique Marine Lifeforms). Here’s how to make a UML appear on your map .
Coins – These coins can be randomly found while scavenging (look for glints of light on the ocean floor).
Treasure Chests – Look for treasure chests (they look like blue and black blocks) and open them to hopefully find the specific treasure required.
Tablets – The mysteries with quotes like #3 below are acquired by finding small lore tablets.
Landmarks - Simply swim past the landmark in question.

So, without further ado, here’s how to unlock all 99 squares on Endless Ocean Luminous’ Mystery Board…

1 - “The Time of the Primordial” Obtained the fish coin.

2 - “From a Faraway Land” Discovered a treasure chest with a meteorite in it.

3 - “Adapa and the Others Descend” "Seven sages, including Adapa, came to this land to bring about Ea's plan..."

4 - “Broken Ninlil” Obtained the boat coin.

5 - “The Gray World” Discovered a treasure chest with a white gemstone in it.

6 – “The Land of the Gridded Board” Obtained the shell coin.

7 – “No Way Out” "Using the glorious wisdom of Ea, Utuabzu created Ninlil. But as Ninlil's large wings spread out among the stars, they caught on the largest of mountains and were irreparably broken..."

9 – “Golden Wings” Scanned Raja Emas.

10 – “Black Oar” Scanned Grand Ancestor.

11 – “Blue Harpoon” Scanned Lancia Presto.

12 – “Distant Observers” Scanned Simurgh Daria.

13 – “The Earthen House” Scanned Rosier Rose.

14 – “Receptors for Light” Scanned Amamotsumi.

15 – “Pale Boatman” Scanned Jawhara Tajir.

16 – “Eternal Iron” Scanned Mertz.

17 – “Observers of the Abyss” Scanned Lamba Apsara.

18 – “Four Repeaters” Scanned Yurlungur.

19 – “Wanderlust” Discovered a community of soft corals. Different from kelp, these soft corals use tentacles to capture prey.

20 – “Sea of Ice” Reached a room surrounded by ice.

21 - ”Sea of Sacred Wine” Reached a room in a tower.

22 – “Lake of Dreams” Reached the interior of an island.

23 – “Valley of the Bade” Reached a room in a canyon.

24 – “Shadow of Albedo “ Discovered a treasure chest with a black gemstone in it.

25 – “In a Silent Sea” Reached the innermost part of the ocean depths.

26 – “Finding the Water of Life” Obtained the droplet coin.

27 – “Flowing from the Giant Vase” Obtained the whirlpool coin.

28 – “Struck by a Great Tidal Wave” “Adapa finally found the water of life, but so tremendous was its rush that he barely managed to control it..."

29 – “With Two Small Branches” Obtained the World Coral coin.

30 – “Tuned” Discovered a treasure chest with a classical guitar in it.

31 – “The Time of Calm” Obtained the treasure mentioned in "A Legend of the Sea God."

32 – “Where Life Branched” Honored the request to swim aside "a creature of countless blades."

33 – “Omen of Prosperity” Discovered a community of kelp clustered together in a narrow space. Under the right conditions, kelp can grow to a remarkable size.

34 – “Seven Sages” Discovered a treasure chest with a seven-branched sword in it.

35 – “Finite” Discovered a community of huge corals. Despite the colony being several hundred years old, it continues to grow.

36 – “With Blue Bird” Obtained a bird coin.

37 – “The Chosen Ones” Discovered a treasure chest with an islanders' stone statue in it.

38 – “Two-Pronged Key” Obtained the anchor coin.

39 – “The Ways of the World” Honored the request to swim aside "that which is adorned with needles."

40 – “To Inherit Wisdom” Discovered a treasure chest with a laurel wreath in it.

41 – “Setting Sun” Obtained the horizon coin.

42 – “Apkallu's Sleep” “Adapa refused eternal life, and the other Apkallu followed. They believed that those people they had given civilization to should rule the land..."

43 – “Utuabzu” Honored the request to swim aside "that which sails as it swims."

44 – “Who Made Ninlil” Discovered a treasure chest with a cruiser model in it.

45 – “An-Enlilda” Obtained the ruler's coin.

46 – “Technician of Ea” Discovered a treasure chest with a telescope in it.

47 – “Enmegalamma” Honored the request to swim aside "a shark favoring white."

48 – “Scholar of Abundance” Discovered a treasure chest with a book of biological illustrations in it.-

49 – “Enmebulugga” Honored the request to swim aside "a fish that dreams of the sky."

50 – “The Benevolent Steward” Discovered a treasure chest with herbal hand cream in it.

51 – “Enmedugga” Honored the request to swim aside "a fish favored by a celestial body, be it blazing or barren."

52 – “Who Was Allotted a Good Fate” Discovered a treasure chest with an 18K gold necklace in it.

53 – “Uannedugga” Honored the request to swim aside "a beast bearing a long spear."

54 – “Spreader of Knowledge” Discovered a treasure chest with a travel magazine in it.

55 – “Adapa” Obtained the treasure mentioned in "Squire's Memoir.”

56 – “The First Tuner and...” Obtained the bugle coin.

57 – “Those with Unfinished Plans” Obtained the treasure mentioned in "Unnamed Biography - Final Chapter."

58 – “The Time of Waves” “As time passed, the stories and lessons of the Apkallu faded from history to legend. The peace they had brought faded as well, as people lived by their own will...”

59 – “Ancient King” Obtained the crown coin.

60 – “Tower of the Oracle” “The Apkallu built a tower high into the sky such that they could gaze upon both land and sea. Atop this tower a mighty fire was lit, and it served as a beacon for the great sea...”

61 – “Prayer for Tuning” Honored the request to swim aside "the white bug crawling upon the seafloor."

62 – “Homeostasis” Discovered a treasure chest with amber in it.

63 – “Witness the Ocean Currents” Discovered a treasure chest with an old underwater camera in it.

64 - “Pulse of the Earth” Honored the request to swim aside "that which pulls its barb across the seafloor."

65 – “The Cycle of Life” Obtained the whalebone coin.

66 – “And So, Time Passed” Discovered a treasure chest with petrified wood in it.

67 – “Beyond Oblivion” Obtained the dragon coin.

68 – “Things Born in the Sea” Honored the request to swim aside "that which lives in this expanse."

69 – “We Are Called Oannes” “After the Apkallu disappeared, those left behind came to call themselves the 'Oannes'—the children of the great Apkallu...”

70 – “Those Who Will Eventually Reach Land” Obtained the Wing coin.

71 – “The Journey of Evolution” Discovered a microatoll area. Coral reefs that primarily grow laterally and have been exposed to the air above the surface of the water.

72 – “The Decay of Memory” Honored the request to swim aside "a great and wise turtle."

73 – “The Extinction of Knowledge” “As generations passed, memories of that early glorious era faded. Faster ever than the Apkallu had thought, their people forgot their own history...”

74 – “The Time of Storms” “People scattered the world over built civilizations, grew ambitious, and fought one another for land they claimed as their own...”

75 – “The People Revolt” Obtained the treasure mentioned in "Pirate Code."

76 – “The Fishing Fires Are Lit” Obtained the bull coin.

77 – “The Fall of the Royal Family” “Those who had followed the Apkallu's commands and had been given their wisdom were cast out by those jealous of such wisdom. The Oannes, by splitting themselves so, were the cause of their own collapse...”

78 – “The New King” Obtained the Sword coin.

79 – “An Unfit Succession” Discovered a strange rock piercing into the ground. The area surrounding it was sunken in, forming a crater that made it seem like the rock had fallen from the sky.

80 – “The Withered Branch” Obtained the leaf coin.

81 – “The Key Has Become Scrap” “The two-pronged spear, inheritance from the Apkallu, was regarded as little more than scrap by foolish rulers. The land rumbled and eerie echoes rebounded...”

82 – “Runaway Power” Obtained the beast coin.

83 – “The Lighthouse Sinks” “The sea and the land, filled with a power they knew not what to do with, collided with one another. The tower sank into the sea, and the Oannes were scattered and lost to time...”

84 – “Disturbed Rhythm” Honored the request to swim aside “life that bears a hammer.”

85 – “The Road to Ruin” Obtained the treasure mentioned in "Unnamed Biography - Introduction."

86 – “Black Sky” Discovered a treasure chest with a satellite antenna in it.

87 – “Back to the Gray World” Obtained the new-moon coin.

88 – “Testament of Enmedugga” “Fortunate Enmedugga left words to a select few. Words that told how to regulate the great waters and maintain peace...”

89 – “With Luck Rivaling Enmedugga, Obtained a Terminal” Discovered a treasure chest with a white whale figurine in it.

90 – “Working with the Effort of Enmebulugga” Obtained the arrow coin.

91 – “Lit All Squares with the Intelligence of Uannedugga” Discovered a treasure chest with a mysterious stone tablet in it.

92 – “With Intentions as Pure as Enmegalamma” Obtained the treasure mentioned in "Someone's Birthday Note."

93 – “Displaying the Reserve Vessels of Utuabzu” “Utuabzu grew concerned over Adapa's recklessness. When the time was right and Adapa was away, Utuabzu stole Adapa's spear and created a duplicate...”

94 – “Recorded on the Terminal of An-Enlilda” Discovered a treasure chest with a lapis lazuli tablet in it.

95 – “ Mission Entrusted by Adapa” “Adapa—sent by Ea—had created civilization, and though he tried, he could not forget the purpose civilization was meant to serve. Meanwhile, Ninlil would not move and would not return to Ea...”

96 – “The Knowledge of Ea That Tuned Earth and Sea” “The glorious wisdom of Ea could solve any problem in all of creation. Even the stars of the night sky could be controlled if so desired. With even a fraction of such power, the peace of the world could be reserved...”

97 – “With Seven Souls That Cannot Return to Heaven” Obtained the treasure mentioned in "Merchant's Letter."

98 – “To All Life Born on Earth” Discovered a variation of a UML.

99 – “Let There Be an Eternal Cycle and Peace” Scanned several different UML variations.

And there you go – that’s what's required to unlock the entire Mystery Board. Again, Endless Ocean Luminous maps are randomized, so there’s going to be a fair amount of trial and error and repetition required to do it all. This Reddit spreadsheet does include a handful of Dive-Site IDs that will take you to specific maps that contain some of the harder-to-solve mysteries, but beyond that, you’re just going to have to stick with it.

Endless Ocean Luminous can be played on Nintendo Switch. You can check out Wccftech’s other Endless Ocean Luminous guides here .

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