Where is delight? and what are pleasures now?-Moths that a…

I have known men who thought the object of conversion was to cleanse them as a garment is cleansed, and that when they are…

— Henry Ward Beecher

As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.

— Saint John Chrysostom

Wherever man has left the stamp of mind on brute-matter; whether we designate his work as structure, texture, or mixture, mechanical or chymical; whether…

— Charles Thomas Newton

“A moth is such a simple machine in the animal world - the go-kart to the modern car - and it takes a lot…

— Poppy Adams

“Moths," repeats Will. "You're afraid of moths?" "Not just a cloud of moths," she says, "like...a swarm of them. Everywhere. All those wings and…

— Veronica Roth

Most cats feel that bird-catching is their duty; the instinct goes back to prehistoric times. Amber keeps in practice by chasing moths.

— Gladys Taber

We talked death with burned-up intensity, both of us drawn to it like moths to an electric light bulb. Sucking on it!

— Anne Sexton

We are all naturally seekers of wonders. We travel far to see the majesty of old ruins, the venerable forms of the hoary mountains,…

— Albert Pike

“And when white moths were on the wing and moth-like stars were flickering out”

— Anonymous

I love women. I love all the bright and attractive people and things of this world, the flame and also the moth, the dancer…

— Yves Saint Laurent

This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“In the warmer months of the year one or other of those nocturnal insects quite often strays indoors from the small garden behind my…

— W. G. Sebald

Pleasure's a Moth, that sleeps by day And dances by false glare at night; But Joy's a Butterfly, that loves To spread its wings…

— W. H. Davies

She was drawn to damaged souls like a moth to a flame.

— Anna McPartlin

Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh.

— William Blake