Moth Eaten Quotes

#1. Never will I make that extra effort to live according to reality which alone makes good writing possible: hence the manic-depressiveness of my style, - which is either bright, cruel and superficial; or pessimistic; moth-eaten with self-pity

Cyril Connolly

#2. The curtain of the universe is moth-eaten, and through its holes we see nothing now but mask and ghost.

Emile M. Cioran

#3. The male ghost looked God-awful old and starved and moth-eaten. The female ghost looked young enough to be his daughter, sleek, bouncy, and full of hell

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#4. 28 Man [3] wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

Anonymous

#5. For though my rhyme be ragged,
Tattered and jagged,
Rudely rain-beaten,
Rusty and moth-eaten,
If ye take well therewith,
It hath in it some pith.

John Skelton

#6. We were passing the city cemetery. Adjoining it was a field occupied only by a couple of amiable and moth-eaten horses, and a grey tower. I asked what the tower was for. My grandfather answered that it held a giant's arm.

Isobelle Carmody

#7. Proud houses fall into decline and great cities pass into ruin. The stories of those things are lost to forgotten languages and moth-eaten scrolls. Vine and root grapple with the rune carved in stone, and rust carries away, fleck by fleck, the great gates of iron.

William Timothy Murray

#8. She was clean: no piercings, tattoos, or scarifications. All the kids were now. And who could blame them, Alex thought, after watching three generations of flaccid tattoos droop like moth-eaten upholstery over poorly stuffed biceps and saggy asses?

Jennifer Egan

#9. There are the dirtstreaked glass panes of the bay windows, there are the heavy, moth-eaten drapes, and there, half hidden by the curtains, pointed face peeking out with that familiar worried look, is Elsie.

Anonymous

#10. You're mine," he growled. He hoped she really understood that too. That she was his in every sense of the word. And vice versa. The female completely owned him. Until the day he died, he would be hers.

Katie Reus

#11. A certain elementary training in statistical method is becoming as necessary for everyone living in this world of today as reading and writing.

H.G.Wells

#12. Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life flowers except on a cemetery.

Remy De Gourmont

#13. The cat with gloves catches no mice.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

#14. I have often noticed that people who routinely wear sportswear are the least likely sort to participate in athletic activity.

Gail Honeyman

#15. A pleasant companion reduces the length of the journey.

Publilius Syrus

#16. Rose unearthed three crystal goblets that almost matched, and even found a tablecloth that hadn't been attacked by moths since its last public appearance.

Elizabeth C. Bunce

#17. I'm not somebody that gets played a lot at parties and weddings. I mean, you know, you mention my name and you get an eye roll, until, of course, you're jumping off a bridge.

Tori Amos

#18. You don't have to meditate. You don't have to practice self-discovery and Buddhism. You should only practice self-discovery if you really have had it with the human world.

Frederick Lenz

#19. Maybe they died of disease or lived on this island into old age, but no matter which, someone was the last man standing.

Jennifer Arnett

#20. I believe that when Crazy Horse was killed, something more than a man's life was snuffed out.

Ian Frazier

#21. they told her, "fear the reaper."
she laughed to herself and muttered, 'baby, death ain't nothing' more than a quick fuck.
a little bit of silence after he comes.

Taylor Rhodes

#22. I'm not an idiot.

Amy Winehouse

#23. He has called for a repeal of the Fifth Amendment as it affects the right of private property.

Dixie Lee Ray