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Moths don't need to explain why their attracted to the light. -- Marty Rubin
Moths don't need to explain why they're attracted to the light. -- Marty Rubin
Moths like me die by the thousands every minute. Her work goes on all the same. Glory unto Mother!... -- Swami Vivekananda
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
Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it. -- Stephen Leacock
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
The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity. -- Steven Chu
Life is a frail moth flying Caught in the web of the years that pass. -- Sara Teasdale
Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name? -- Helen Hunt Jackson
Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it? -- Charles Dickens
Maidens, like moths, are ever caught, by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair. -- Lord Byron
After 12 years, the old butterflies came back. Well, I guess at my age you call them moths. -- Franco Harris
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Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing -- Christopher Fry
Light attracts light. But sometimes your light attracts moths and your warmth attracts parasites. Protect your space and energy -- Warsan Shire
In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Those who fervently love God are intoxicated by His warmth and live out their addiction like moths drawn to a flame. -- Calvin Miller
The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer. -- Paula Poundstone
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
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
The wall is silence, the grass is sleep, Tall trees of peace their vigil keep, And the Fairy of Dreams with moth-wings furled. Plays soft on her flute to the drowsy world. -- Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
There was a moth in there, and it still had its wings crumpled up, and it was just starting to pump its wings up. Life continues in lots of places, and life is a magical thing. -- Laurel Clark
Moths are the ones that freak me out. It's something to do with the way that, if they get squashed, they turn to dust. There's something very wrong about that. It all feels a bit Gothic. -- David Tennant
What did moths bump into before the electric light bulb was invented? Boy, the lightbulb really screwed the moth up didn't it? Are there moths on their way to the sun now going, It's gonna be worth it!. -- Bill Hicks
My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame. -- F. Sionil Jose
Dragonflies kill their prey in the air and eat it on the wing. They feed on aerial plankton, which consists of any sort of small living thing that happens to be aloft - mosquitoes, midges, moths, flies, ballooning spiders. -- Richard Preston
If you manifest your true self through nature and your normal surroundings, I find that the most eerie. Like when you see birds suddenly start flying in a different direction or when you see moths forming weird shapes, I think that's the weirdest way to let yourself be known. -- Holland Roden
I really enjoyed staying at an encampment at the top of a hill in the Samburu Reserve in Kenya. You reach it on a small plane; there is no electricity, no city noises and you sleep and shower under the Milky Way, with moths fluttering around a kerosene lamp, knowing that there are elephants and lions roaming free in the valley. -- Cherie Lunghi
Be the flame, not the moth. -- Giacomo Casanova
Judge the moth by the beauty of the candle -- Rumi
I like the 'Moth' podcast a lot. I listen to that. -- Gillian Jacobs
As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man. -- Saint John Chrysostom
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
He dispensed starlight to casual moths. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moths. -- Leonard Cohen
You know what rumors are like-like a jar full of moths. Once they escape, they're all over the place. -- Rhys Bowen
Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world. -- Glen Duncan
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
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People are like moths. First they are ugly and awkward, until they break out of their shell and become a beautiful butterfly. -- Drew Barrymore
Look, I guess it's natural, you're teenagers, its springtime,everyone's thoughts are turning to birds and bees and caterpillars and moths..... - Iggy -- James Patterson
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
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
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
He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hearts are like tapers, which at beauteous eyes Kindle a flame of love that never dies; And beauty is a flame, where hearts, like moths, Offer themselves a burning sacrifice. -- Omar Khayyam
Oh cat, I'd say, or pray: be-ootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat with paws like moths, jewelled cat, miraculous cat! Cat, cat, cat, cat. -- Doris Lessing
A coat that is not used, the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted-the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that. -- Henry Ward Beecher
I've often found myself preferring second-rate people to supposedly superior people, simply and solely because of their uncontrollable tendency to bang themselves against the sides of life's vast lampshade like fireflies or moths. -- Francoise Sagan
Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put it in a list. Don't even say the words. -- Douglas Coupland
As the moths around a taper, As the bees around a rose, As the gnats around a vapour, So the spirits group and close Round about a holy childhood, as if drinking its repose. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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
People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever. -- Fay Weldon
Sloths actually are like furry living ecosystems all by themselves! Algae grows on their fur and they are also home to "sloth moths" who call them home and drink their tears. -- Ann Burton
Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats away the wood; but greatest of all evils is envy, impious habitant of corrupt souls, which ever was, is, and shall be a consuming disease. -- Menander

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