Fireflies Quotes

43 quotes by 39 authors

Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Animals, even plants, lie to each other all the time, and we could restrict the research to them, putting off the real truth about ourselves… — Lewis Thomas
Beautiful things never last. Thatâ€™s why fireflies flash. — Ron Pope
Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as… — Fernand Braudel
Grave of the Firefliesâ€ is an emotional experience so powerful that it forces a rethinking of animation... It belongs on any list of the greatest… — Roger Ebert
The past is beautiful / like the darkness between the fireflies. — Mason Jennings
There is a place where time stands still ...illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost nothing at the… — Alan Lightman
Moon appears to shine and light the sky with the help of some fireflies, wonder how they have the power to shine? — Peter Frampton
My fancies are fireflies Specks of living light twinkling in the dark. — Rabindranath Tagore
The fireflies o'er the meadow In pulses come and go. — James Russell Lowell
IsnÂ’t it strange some people make You feel so tired inside, Your thoughts begin to shrivel up Like leaves all brown and dried!But when youÂ’re… — Rachel Field
Insights and perceptions pass through the mind like fleet fireflies. Lit for an instant, then gone back into the dark. — Leonard Bishop
Brighter than fireflies upon the Uji River are your words in the dark, Beloved. — Amy Lowell
Lightning flashed dully inside the clouds on the horizon making them look as if they had fireflies of their own, monster fireflies the size of… — Stephen King
Above us our palace waits, the only one I've ever needed. Its walls are space, its floor is sky, its center everywhere. We rise; the… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of… — Jorge Luis Borges
So that's what I'm here to become. And suddenly, this word fills me with a brand of sadness I haven't felt since childhood. The kind… — Augusten Burroughs
I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from… — Neil Gaiman
Well, what I don't get is why do we exist? I don't mean how, but why.' I watched the fireflies of his thoughts orbit his… — Jonathan Safran Foer
The child had indeed shut up but all the questions that had accumulated on his tongue circulated in his mouth, moved through the passages of… — Elif Safak

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