Moth Quotes: top 92 famous quotes about Moth

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He rubbed my arm, whispering words that sounded like moth bodies flying into glass windows. — Lauren DeStefano

The white moth to the closing vine,
The bee to the open clover,
And the Gypsy blood to the Gypsy blood
Ever the wide world over. — Rudyard Kipling

Is the soul solid, like iron?
Or is it tender and breakable, like
the wings of a moth in the beak of the owl. — Mary Oliver

I am the moth and he is the flame, and I'm going to get burned. I know. — E.L. James

Just now,
Out of the strange
Still dusk ... as strange, as still ...
A white moth flew ... Why am I grown
So cold? — Adelaide Crapsey

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

Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals. — Stephen King

My inner Jiminy was screaming at me to stop playing with fire again, but I was a moth drawn to a flaming hot drummer. — Kristen Hope Mazzola

As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a [person]. — John Chrysostom

All night your moth-breath
Flickers among the flat pink roses. I wake to listen.
A far sea moves in my ear. — Sylvia Plath

Judge the moth by the beauty of the candle — Jalaluddin Rumi

Though I knew how this failure would hurt you, I had to fold like a grey moth and let go.
You could not believe I was more than your echo. — Margaret Atwood

She had done everything she could. And he didn't even know. — Marie Rutkoski

He was wearing a T-shirt that said "Judge a moth by the beauty of its candle." He was my candle, but I was not his. I decided I was okay with that. — Sarah Black

Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. O these deliberate fools! — William Shakespeare

The white sun like a moth on a string circles the southpole. — A.R. Ammons

And when white moths were on the wing and moth-like stars were flickering out — W.B.Yeats

The curtain of the universe is moth-eaten, and through its holes we see nothing now but mask and ghost. — Emile M. Cioran

Fear can make a moth seem the size of a bull elephant. — Stephen Richards

But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Unconsumed by moth or rust. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I can't smell moth balls, I find it too difficult to get their tiny legs apart — Steve Martin

How, like a moth, the simple maid Still plays around the flame! — John Gay

The white moth of hope fluttered before her face. — Cornell Woolrich

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 God has one. — Anne Sexton

Together - like a moth to a flame, there'd be nothing left. — Chloe Neill

Moth, that wasn't very nice. — Michael Buckley

Moth: I gave you my life.
Flame: I allowed you to kiss me. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

Like the moth whose feet are caught in the molten wax of a candle, Rouget rapidly used up his remaining energy. — Honore De Balzac

In the darkness, who would answer for the color of a rose, Or the vestments of the May moth and the pilgrimage it goes? — Nathalia Crane

I was hopelessly drawn to him like a moth to a flame ... I had a feeling I would get burned by Carter Morgan, but I didn't care. — Adriane Leigh

Her lips were drawn to his like a moth to a flame. — Anya Seton

A man killing himself in the pursuit of his dreams is no different in a moth flying into a flame. — Katherine Pine

She didn't know why she was so attracted to this stranger, like a moth to the flame, but it scared her. — Lindsay Chamberlin

Oops, the moth woman mumbles — Michael Chabon

Moth to a flame I follow. — Karen Marie Moning

Poor moth, I can't help you,
I can only turn out the light. — Ryszard Krynicki

...what the Man-Moth fears most he must do.. — Elizabeth Bishop

And so it is that a new joie de vivre creeps into Ada's soul like a moth into a trunk of woollens. — Dasa Drndic

Hurt no living thing: Ladybird, nor butterfly, Nor moth with dusty wing. — Christina Rossetti

In daylight and up close, he was merciless, all smiles and freckles, the brightest, boldest flame a moth could wish for. — Alexis Hall

My existence was as unstable as a stream, changing in every way; but the moth was like a piece of stone, changing not at all. — Arthur Golden

...like a moth lost in dawn's light. — Gisele Pineau

Ordinarily, her love affairs are entered into skittishly, sometimes reluctantly. She doesn't dive into bed but flutters in like a wayward moth. — Maggie Shipstead

A sparrow-size moth with a blue body and black wings, splayed on a flower between a slant of sun and shade. — A.G. Howard

Despite her love of pineapple on pizza, Lark was perfection. I felt like a love starved moth drawn to the light of her smile. — Bijou Hunter

Pleasure's a Moth, that sleeps by day And dances by false glare at night; But Joy's a Butterfly, that loves To spread its wings in Nature's light. — W.H. Davies

I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment ... — Lucy Maud Montgomery

On Rahel's heart Pappachi's moth snapped open its somber wings. Out. In. And lifted its legs. Up. Down. — Arundhati Roy

Like a moth, Rene was attracted to the flame of fame — James D. Bradley

But something is always impelling one to hum vibrating, like the hawk moth, at the mouth of the cavern of mystery. — Virginia Woolf

I find a fascination, like the fascination for the moth of a star, in those who hold aloof and disdain me. — Logan Pearsall Smith

She had big, vague eyes and a big, vague smile, and was always very busy in the way that a moth crashing about in a lampshade is busy. — Frances Hardinge

[Her delicate beauty must avoid a strong light. There is something about her uncertain manner, as well as her white clothes, that suggests a moth.] — Tennessee Williams

He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from outside. — Philip K. Dick

Maybe the point isn't whether or not you become a moth or a butterfly. Maybe the point is that, either way, you've got wings. — Autumn Doughton

Change itself is what fascinates me. I am drawn, as a moth to the flame, by edge situations, by situations of metamorphosis. — Annie Proulx

loud laughter mixed with the chirp of crickets. A moth hit — Angela M. Sanders

The problem with cats is that they get the same exact look whether they see a moth or an ax-murderer. — Paula Poundstone

Life is a frail moth flying Caught in the web of the years that pass. — Sara Teasdale

The weeping of the candle is not in mourning for the moth: the dawn is at hand, and it is thinking of its own dark night. — Saib Tabrizi

Like a moth to a flame we become helpless to the beautiful ghosts that true love sheds. — Ryan O'Neal

The night life draws me in like a moth to a flame and not even fear could convince me to not walk amongst the giants that line the streets. — Z.L. Arkadie

Being kissed on the back of the knee is a moth at the windowscreen ... — Anne Sexton

It's an amazing thing to watch a lizard fold a moth into its mouth, like a sword swallower who specialises in umbrellas. — Elizabeth McCracken

Social proof is a flame to the human mind moth, and it leaves a fire trail of destruction across the path of enough. — Will Jelbert

I know not by what power I am drawn to you, but it is as a moth is drawn to the flame, and I cannot fight it, I must be consumed. — Andrea Zuvich

People were drawn to her the way a moth clings to a porch light, and I was the most hypnotized of all. — Brielle A. Marino

Be careful. . . ." And then she let go. For even she knew there was only so much one could do to protect a winter moth drawn to an icy flame. — Evelyn Skye

Your light burns so bright. I never had a chance. Your fire enchants me, and I'd do anything to be near this fire, even if it meant death. — K. Webster

I love women. I love all the bright and attractive people and things of this world, the flame and also the moth, the dancer and the dance. — Yves Saint-Laurent

I am sorry to shock you," she said. "But the moth eats the garment somewhat in five-and thirty years. — Thomas Hardy

He was a moth to her flame, a marshmallow to her campfire, a redneck to her bottle rocket ... — Nine Naughty Novelists

My sister don't talk much. When she does, it's only to me, in moth-winged whispers, and only when we're alone. — Emily Murdoch

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing. — Christopher Fry

I like the 'Moth' podcast a lot. I listen to that. — Gillian Jacobs

Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh. — William Blake

What a moth might see from birth to death if black were white and white were black, — Stan Brakhage

28 Man [3] wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten. — Anonymous

Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name? — Helen Hunt Jackson

The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity. — Steven Chu

Moth to a flame. Somehow we both got burnt. — Teresa Mummert

I seem to draw the crazies like a moth to a flame. Ian says the bugs come to the light. — Willow Aster

Be the flame, not the moth. — Giacomo Casanova

Ben, why should anybody want that much power?"
"Why does a moth fly toward light? — Robert A. Heinlein

Photographs of girl-children; some gaudy moth or butterfly, still alive, safely pinned to the wall. — Vladimir Nabokov

Announcing your death should be like announcing that you are a lunar moth: It must be done quietly or it will not be believed. — Lemony Snicket

She was drawn to damaged souls like a moth to a flame. — Anna McPartlin

A moth is just a butterfly in love with the moon... So sad that their love can never be that he forgot how to be BEAUTIFUL. — John Allison

That's how you avoid becoming a moth," he says. "Stop asking others what to believe. Figure it out for yourself. — Stephanie Oakes

I am a moth to his flame, and he never hesitates to burn me. — Anna Todd

atreasures in heaven, where neither moth — Anonymous

I don't mind being a moth. I would probably start eating silk if it meant that I could fly. — Marie Rutkoski