Moth Quotes

The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity. (Steven Chu)
Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name? View quote
Helen Hunt Jackson
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. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both. View quote
Ben Jonson
The problem with cats is that they get the same exact look whether they see a moth or an ax-murderer. View quote
Paula Poundstone
He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from outside. View quote
Philip K. Dick
Voice, come out of the silence. Say something. Appear in the form of a spider Or a moth beating the curtain. Tell me: Which is the way I take; Out of what door` do I go, Where and to whom? Dark hollows said, lee to the wind, The moon said, back of an eel, The salt said, look by the sea, Your tears are not enough praise, You will find no comfort here, In the kingdom of bang and blab. View quote
Theodore Roethke
Moth: I gave you my life. Flame: I allowed you to kiss me. View quote
Inayat Khan
Like a moth to a flame Burned by the fire. My love is blind Can't you see my desire? View quote
Janet Jackson
In the darkness, who would answer for the color of a rose, Or the vestments of the May moth and the pilgrimage it goes? View quote
Nathalia Crane
Within the last half century, the labours of such men as Von Baer, Rathke, Reichert, Bischof, and Remak, have almost completely unravelled... the successive stages of development which... are now as well known to the embryologist as are the steps of the metamorphosis of the silk-worm moth to the school boy. (Thomas Henry Huxley)
Her dæmon's name was Pantalaimon, and he was currently in the form of a moth, a dark brown one so as not to show up in the darkness of the hall. View quote
Philip Pullman
During thirtyfive years as a foreign correspondent, I must have covered just about everything, from the public life of six Presidents to the private life of a burlesque stripper; from the black market in beef to the Black Panthers; from Estes Kefauver amid the snows of New Hampshire to Jack Nicklaus amid the azaleas of Augusta, Georgia; from Henry Kaiser's Liberty ships to Francis Chichester's Gypsy Moth sailing into Staten Island at one in the morning; from the Marshall Plan to Planned Parenthood; from Senator Joseph McCarthy's last stand to the massacre of Muhammad Ali by Joe Frazier. View quote
Alistair Cooke
I felt like a moth in a chandelier - all at once there were lots of pretty choices, but I wasn't quite sure where to fly. View quote
Richard Bach
I came home one night, some month ago, and I went to the closet in my bedroom... and a moth ate my sports jacket. He was laying on the floor, nauseous, y'know. View quote
Woody Allen
Being kissed on the back of the knee is a moth at the windowscreen. View quote
Anne Sexton
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. View quote
Anne Sexton
Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals. View quote
Stephen King
Note that in all this interaction between mutation and natural selection, no moth is making a conscious effort to adapt to a changed environment. The process is random and statistical. View quote
Carl Sagan
Natural selection builds child brains with a tendency to believe whatever their parents and tribal elders tell them. Such trusting obedience is valuable for survival: the analogue of steering by the moon for a moth. But the flip side of trusting obedience is slavish gullibility. The inevitable by-product is vulnerability to infection by mind viruses. View quote
Richard Dawkins
More beautiful and soft than any moth With burring furred antennae feeling its huge path Through dusk, the air-liner with shut-off engines Glides over suburbs and the sleeves set trailing tall To point the wind. Gently, broadly, she falls, Scarcely disturbing charted currents of air. (Stephen Spender)
A sensitive person gets burned, like a delicate moth. View quote
Elfriede Jelinek
We were like a moth right next to the flame. It's like, do any more and you go down. We were so tired. One final lap, and then have a rest. View quote
Meg White
Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing. View quote
Christopher Fry
Now you see that the hope and the desire of returning home and to one's former state is like the moth to the light, and that the man who with constant longing awaits with joy each new spring time, each new summer, each new month and new year - deeming that the things he longs for are ever too late in coming - does not perceive that he is longing for his own destruction. But this desire is the very quintessence, the spirit of the elements, which finding itself imprisoned with the soul is ever longing to return from the human body to its giver. And you must know that this same longing is that quintessence, inseparable from nature, and that man is the image of the world. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci