Moth Quotes

76 quotes by 70 authors

As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man. — Saint John Chrysostom
Change itself is what fascinates me. I am drawn, as a moth to the flame, by edge situations, by situations of metamorphosis. — Annie Proulx
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
Life is a frail moth flying Caught in the web of the years that pass. — Sara Teasdale
I like the 'Moth' podcast a lot. I listen to that. — Gillian Jacobs
The curtain of the universe is moth-eaten, and through its holes we see nothing now but mask and ghost. — Emile M. Cioran
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
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
What a moth might see from birth to death if black were white and white were black, — Stan Brakhage
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
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
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
The white sun like a moth on a string circles the southpole. — A. R. Ammons
Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. O these deliberate fools! — William Shakespeare
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
Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing — Christopher Fry
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
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
She was drawn to damaged souls like a moth to a flame. — Anna McPartlin
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

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