Collectors Quote by Walter Benjamin

“The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.”

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“The owls may indeed not be what they seem. But they serve as an imperative function: they remind us to look into the darkness.”

— Douglas Milford

“As he looked out in the pitch dark beyond, a barn owl came into the floodlight, glid silently between the barns and was gone,…

— Cynan Jones

“The owl,” he was saying, “is one of the most curious creatures. A bird that stays awake when the rest of the world sleeps.…

— M.J. Rose

“And he who worships knowledge enters into greater darkness.”

— Sri M

“All creatures are capable of darkness, but not all choose to succumb to it.”

— Sara Humphreys

“For sapphires we are held in here. Only you can end our fear.” Violet said. “Until dawn comes we cannot speak. No words can…

— Lemony Snicket

“Hegel on sacrifice. The animal dies. The man becomes alert.”

— Anne Carson

“Then I will not repine Knowing that bird of mine Though flown shall in a distant tree Bright melody for me Return.”

— Emily Dickinson

“Owls, meanwhile, display some darker tendencies.”

— Daniel H. Pink

“Once upon a time there was a little blackbird who was pushed from the nest, unwanted. Discarded.”

— Amy Harmon

“It's the darkness when a light is quenched, the silence when a sound fades. It takes the final breath from the smallest insect and…

— Darren Shan