The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark. (Yann Martel)

The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark.

Yann Martel

Related topics

absurd call clear crescent dark moon night shine sky brilliance stars

Related quotes

If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon. View quote
Galileo Galilei
There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die? View quote
George Borrow
'Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright. And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen- For what listen they? View quote
John Keats
At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space. View quote
Natalie Wood
The night folds her trembling hands over a weary world. Out of a pale blue rises the shining moon. My thoughts are flying to the stars like lonely swans. View quote
Joseph Goebbels