Moths Quotes
111 Moths quotes by 99 unique authors
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This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Look, I guess it's natural, you're teenagers, its springtime,everyone's thoughts are turning to birds and bees and caterpillars and moths..... - Iggy
— James Patterson
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He dispensed starlight to casual moths.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think,…
— Karl Marx
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She was clean": no piercings, tattoos, or scarifications. All the kids were now. And who could blame them, Alex thought, after watching three generations of…
— Jennifer Egan
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I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English sparrow, the house…
— John Steinbeck
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Moth to a flame I follow.
— Karen Marie Moning
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One voyage to the East and a man could live as rich as a lord until the end of his days. When he'd been younger,…
— George R. R. Martin
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I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept…
— Mary Oliver
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Oh, he was just angry, we tell ourselves when someone blurts out something he later apologizes for. But a word, once spoken, lingers forever; to…
— Margaret George
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No matter how dark the room gets I can always see. It looks emptier when I put the lights on so I don't do it…
— Janice Galloway
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He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdain'd For thee to disdain it. One hope too like…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from outside.
— Philip K. Dick
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Judge the moth by the beauty of the candle
— Unknown Author
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Her lips were drawn to his like a moth to a flame.
— Anya Seton
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Look to your heart that flutters in and out like a moth. God is not indifferent to your need. You have a thousand prayers but…
— Anne Sexton
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Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world.
— Glen Duncan
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Into the mercy seat I climb My head is shaved, my head is wired And like a moth that tries To enter the bright eye…
— Nick Cave
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We talked death with burned-up intensity, both of us drawn to it like moths to an electric light bulb. Sucking on it!
— Anne Sexton
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Mencheres slid through the water toward her, drawn by the same inexorable compulsion that led moths to dance with flames. He'd had several lifetimes' worth…
— Jeaniene Frost
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Beauty,’ Brimstone had scoffed once. ‘Humans are fools for it. As helpless as moths who hurl themselves at fire.
— Laini Taylor
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Then your fingers moved down to my chin. You pushed it up with your thumb to look at me, almost like you were studying me…
— Lucy Christopher
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Moth: I gave you my life. Flame: I allowed you to kiss me.
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
Who Wrote These Moths Quotes
99 authors contributed a total of 111 Moths Quotes, led by these top contributors: