Apocalypse Quote by George Sterling

“A cold wind raced across the surrounding fields of wild grass, turning the land into a heaving dark-green ocean. It sighed up through the…

— Charles Beaumont

“Ephemerals: That's what Hub called them; flowers that bloomed and died in a matter of weeks, before the trees leafed out and shaded them.…

— Pamela Todd

“Of which those butterflies Of Earth, who seek the skies, And so come down again (Never-contented things!)”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“The desire of the moth for the star”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“There’s no more glorious appetite on this planet than that of the person who eats the food he grows and kills and catches. After”

— Richard Horan

“They fluttered and rustled ceaselessly through the air from all the tree-tops and branches. A delicate silvery sound was falling constantly to earth. It…

— Felix Salten

“Sometimes they went hungry, sometimes they feasted riotously, all according to the abundance of game and the fortune of hunting.”

— Jack London

“...is a pale desert of gigantic water-lilies. They sigh one unto the other in that solitude. And stretch towards the heaven their long and…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“And when the leaves return, and their whisperings fill the night, they'll freeze and burn, where fire and ice collide”

— Owl City

“Hunger brings a halt to love, or if not hunger, Time, or if those are of no avail, a noose.”

— Crates of Thebes

“...the summer of the gypsy moths when all the trees in their yard were bare, the leaves chewed by caterpillars. You could hear crunching…

— Alice Hoffman

“It is the desire of the moth for the star. It is no mere appreciation of the Beauty before us – but a wild…

— Edgar Allan Poe