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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

Moths don't need to explain why their attracted to the light. — Marty Rubin

We were like two moths around a candle, I thought, circling closer and closer to the flame, waiting to see whose wings would catch fire first. — Tan Twan Eng

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

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

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

I've always assumed the old men were just there, fixed, like lamps, but in love with their moths. — Tom Cardamone

Most cats feel that bird-catching is their duty; the instinct goes back to prehistoric times. Amber keeps in practice by chasing moths. — Gladys Taber

After 12 years, the old butterflies came back. Well, I guess at my age you call them moths. — Franco Harris

What sort of moths eat chainmail? — George R R Martin

I remember the newspapers dying like huge moths. No one wanted them back. No one missed them. — Ray Bradbury

We talk about anything but the things we should. Innocent and quiet, like two moths dancing around the same flame. — Pierce Brown

The moths look like souls in the underworld, — Ursula K. Le Guin

Light attracts light. But sometimes your light attracts moths and your warmth attracts parasites. Protect your space and energy — Warsan Shire

Moths must fly to his flame and perish gladly. — Barbara Kingsolver

I have always thought of the moths and butterflies as a bonus to the flowers, as though Nature were admiring her own work. — Roger Deakin

Where is delight? and what are pleasures now?-Moths that a garment fret.The world is turned memorial, crying, ThouShalt not forget! — Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world. — Glen Duncan

Father, the dark moths crouch at the sills of the earth, waiting. — James Sallis

And yet ... it's the little things that fret the holes in life ... like moths ... and ruin it. — L.M. Montgomery

Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it? — Charles Dickens

People are like moths. First they are ugly and awkward, until they break out of their shell and become a beautiful butterfly. — Drew Barrymore

Moths and flames, mankind and death
there is little difference. — Sherwin B. Nuland

They're disgusting. Those papery wings and their stupid bug bodies ... — Veronica Roth

Moths don't need to explain why they're attracted to the light. — Marty Rubin

The circus collects the outsiders like a flame tempts moths. — Laura Lam

One by one, the moths of the night took their release. And she watched them float off like butterflies, silhouetted in the glow of morning. — Ellison Blackburn

People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever. — Fay Weldon

Moths lay their eggs where civilizations have been destroyed. — Marty Rubin

People are attracted to the sociopath's exceptionalism like moths to a flame. — M.E. Thomas

Bees and butterflies, moths and dragonflies, the flowers and the brooks and the clouds. — George MacDonald

Those who fervently love God are intoxicated by His warmth and live out their addiction like moths drawn to a flame. — Calvin Miller

I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like. — Carrie Fisher

He dispensed starlight to casual moths. — F Scott Fitzgerald

You have a heart of stone," she told him.
"It's not a question of a heart," he said. "The room's getting full of moths. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A linguist who specialised in the languages of incense and burnt offerings, of moths and radial cremations. — Benjanun Sriduangkaew

Ideas brush past fleeting and insubstantial as moths. But I let them go, I don't want them. What I want is a voice. — Joyce Carol Oates

Today on the way home, it snows. Big, soft caressing flakes fall onto our skin like cold moths; the air fills with feathers. — Margaret Atwood

You know what rumors are like-like a jar full of moths. Once they escape, they're all over the place. — Rhys Bowen

Moths flitted in the porch light, pinging against the bulb, helplessly drawn to something they could never have. — Jamie Ford

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

There are certain inessential activities-moths of precious time-and it is worse to busy yourself with the trivial than to do nothing. — Baltasar Gracian

Nobody ever thinks about the flame. It always ends up alone, and surrounded by a bunch of dead moths. — Charity Parkerson

Growing up, I was the champion of spiders and moths in my house, catching and releasing them for my mother at great personal risk. — John L. Monk

And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moths. — Leonard Cohen

Nature is always lavish of her gifts even to the most insignificant forms. The butterflies and moths are richly dowered in this respect. — Annie Besant

Moths like me die by the thousands every minute. Her work goes on all the same. Glory unto Mother! ... — Swami Vivekananda

She could see Sylvie and her friends on the lawn below, their dresses fluttering like moths in the encroaching dusk. — Kate Atkinson

In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. — F Scott Fitzgerald