Moth Quotes
76 quotes by 71 authors
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As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.
— Saint John Chrysostom
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Change itself is what fascinates me. I am drawn, as a moth to the flame, by edge situations, by situations of metamorphosis.
— Annie Proulx
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The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Life is a frail moth flying Caught in the web of the years that pass.
— Sara Teasdale
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I like the 'Moth' podcast a lot. I listen to that.
— Gillian Jacobs
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The curtain of the universe is moth-eaten, and through its holes we see nothing now but mask and ghost.
— Emile M. Cioran
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I detest my past, and anyone else's. I detest resignation, patience, professional heroism and obligatory beautiful feelings. I also detest the decorative arts, folklore, advertising,…
— Rene Magritte
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Nature is full of by-ends. A moth feeds on a petal, in a moment the pollen caught on its breast will be wedding this blossom…
— George Iles
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What a moth might see from birth to death if black were white and white were black,
— Stan Brakhage
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The [peppered-moth] experiments show the effects of predation on the survival of the dark and of the normal forms of the Peppered Moth in a…
— L. Harrison Matthews
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Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the original…
— Thomas Brooks
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Remember Killer Moth, the most ingenuous rogue ever to defy the dynamic duo, Batman and Robin ?Perhaps you recall how the weird beam from the…
— Bob Kane
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The white sun like a moth on a string circles the southpole.
— A. R. Ammons
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Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. O these deliberate fools!
— William Shakespeare
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The wall is silence, the grass is sleep, Tall trees of peace their vigil keep, And the Fairy of Dreams with moth-wings furled. Plays soft…
— Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
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Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing
— Christopher Fry
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What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their…
— Charles Lamb
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We are all naturally seekers of wonders. We travel far to see the majesty of old ruins, the venerable forms of the hoary mountains, great…
— Albert Pike
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She was drawn to damaged souls like a moth to a flame.
— Anna McPartlin
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The eastern light our spires touch at morning, The light that slants upon our western doors at evening, The twilight over stagnant pools at batflight,…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
Who Wrote These Moth Quotes
71 authors contributed a total of 76 Moth Quotes, led by these top contributors: