Moth Quotes

76 quotes by 71 authors

Hurt no living thing: Ladybird, nor butterfly, Nor moth with dusty wing. — Christina Rossetti
I find a fascination, like the fascination for the moth of a star, in those who hold aloof and disdain me. — Logan Pearsall Smith
The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity. — Steven Chu
Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near… — Vikram Seth
I try to make very careful decisions about what I choose to do, and it's - I know that unfortunately one of the misperceptions about… — Monica Lewinsky
We are a material-mad race of people. Build, increase, expand, pile up, hoard! More and more and more. "If we can just make enough money… — Eugenia Price
The delicate muses lose their head if their attention is once diverted. Perhaps if you were successful abroad in talking and dealing with men, you… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day; Be content with the moon and the stars, pretty moth,… — Thomas Haynes Bayly
Like a moth to a flame we become helpless to the beautiful ghosts that true love sheds. — Ryan O'Neal
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats… — Ben Jonson
Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name? — Helen Hunt Jackson
The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer. — Paula Poundstone
Being kissed on the back of the knee is a moth at the windowscreen.... — Anne Sexton
I came home one night, some month ago, and I went to the closet in my bedroom...and a moth ate my sports jacket. He was… — Woody Allen
Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals. — Stephen King
If a night-moth were to concentrate its will on flying to a star or some equally unattainable object, it wouldn't succeed. Only, it wouldn't even… — Hermann Hesse
The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as… — Henry David Thoreau
From 'the lesson of the moth': and before i could argue him out of his philosophy he went and immolated himself on a patent cigar… — Don Marquis
We see a newborn moth unwrapping itself and announce, Look, children, a miracle! But let an irreversible wound be knit back to seamlessness? We won't… — Leif Enger
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, he can't go… — Aimee Mann

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