People are like moths. First they are ugly and awkward, until they break out of their shell and become a beautiful butterfly. — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
Oh, he was just angry, we tell ourselves when someone blurts out something he later apologizes for. But a word, once spoken,… — Margaret George Copy Share Image
The curtain of the universe is moth-eaten, and through its holes we see nothing now but mask and ghost. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Moths are the ones that freak me out. It's something to do with the way that, if they get squashed, they turn… — David Tennant Copy Share Image
The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an… — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
As the moths around a taper, As the bees around a rose, As the gnats around a vapour, So the spirits group… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Life is a frail moth flying Caught in the web of the years that pass. — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
Like a moth to a flame we become helpless to the beautiful ghosts that true love sheds. — Ryan O'Neal Copy Share Image
Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
A day will come when man will discover an alphabet in the eyes of the chalcedonies, in the marking of the moth,… — Alejo Carpentier Copy Share Image
The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
If a night-moth were to concentrate its will on flying to a star or some equally unattainable object, it wouldn't succeed. Only,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
She was clean": no piercings, tattoos, or scarifications. All the kids were now. And who could blame them, Alex thought, after watching… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Beauty,’ Brimstone had scoffed once. ‘Humans are fools for it. As helpless as moths who hurl themselves at fire. — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
The wall is silence, the grass is sleep, Tall trees of peace their vigil keep, And the Fairy of Dreams with moth-wings… — Ida Rentoul Outhwaite Copy Share Image
All we have observed is where moths do not spend the day. In 25 years we have found only two betularia on… — Cyril Clarke Copy Share Image
Oh cat, I'd say, or pray: be-ootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat with paws… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Nature is always lavish of her gifts even to the most insignificant forms. The butterflies and moths are richly dowered in this… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
What a moth might see from birth to death if black were white and white were black, — Stan Brakhage Copy Share Image
The moth don't care when he sees the flame He might get burned, but he's in the game And once he's in,… — Aimee Mann Copy Share Image
