Moth Like Quotes

#1. And when white moths were on the wing and moth-like stars were flickering out

W.B.Yeats

#2. Andrew Lloyd Webber is one of those odd moth-like creatures who seem to combine extreme discomfort with the spotlight with an unstoppable compulsion to leap into it.

Craig Brown

#3. Into the mercy seat I climb My head is shaved, my head is wired And like a moth that tries To enter the bright eye I go shuffling out of life Just to hide in death awhile And anyway I never lied.

Nick Cave

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. Her lips were drawn to his like a moth to a flame.

Anya Seton

#7. I'm a moth to his flame and it frightens me how willingly I'd burn my wings off for him. Destroy the world. Follow him to Hell. It's scary to feel like you can't breathe without someone.

Karen Marie Moning

#8. I need you like - like light. You're light, all right - like a flame to a moth. I told you once that you shouldn't mess with forbidden things - I should have taken my own advice.

L.J.Smith

#9. The winter passes and the warm winds of May made me long to wander again. The whistling of a locomotive on a still night had a lure, unexplainable, yet strong, like the light which leads a moth to destruction.

Jim Tully

#10. 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

#11. Whenever I smelled the same perfume on other women, no matter where I was, I was instantly transported back to that feeling of discovery. The sensation of fingertips against old paper, whose surface was powdery and fragile, like the membrane of a moth's wing.

Reif Larsen

#12. Like a moth, Rene was attracted to the flame of fame

James D. Bradley

#13. They watched her sit, holding the bundle up before her, the lamp just at her elbow belabored by a moth whose dark shape cast upon her face appeared captive within the delicate skull, the thin and roselit bone, like something kept in a china mask

Cormac McCarthy

#14. 28 Man [3] wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

Anonymous

#15. From the first time I saw you. You were beautiful and ... you had this light to you. It drew me like a moth. I thought, This is a man powerful enough to let me protect him and strong enough to take me. I thought, with you, maybe sometimes I could let my guard down at last. Except you hated me.

Kim Fielding

#16. No." I've fallen asleep praying for you to look at me like this. To touch me like this. "Don't break my heart." Moth shadows glide above him in the mirrored ceiling, distracting me from the fierceness of his frown. "I'd cut mine out first.

A.G. Howard

#17. But in this rare moment, I will also concede that like a moth to a flame, I'm drawn to her. To her innocence. To her kindness. To her ability to love. To all the things I wish I was capable of but have sacrificed in order to survive.

L.B. Simmons

#18. The dead are orphans. No company but the silence like a moth's wing. An end to the agony of movement, to the long nightmare of going down the road. The body in peace, stillness, and order. The perfect darkness of death.

Richard Bachman

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. I like the 'Moth' podcast a lot. I listen to that.

Gillian Jacobs

#23. Girls are always saying things like, "I'm so unhappy that I'm going to overdose on aspirin," but they'd be awfully surprised if they succeeded. They have no intention of dying. At the first sight of blood, they panic.

Rachel Klein

#24. He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from outside.

Philip K. Dick

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

Virginia Woolf

#26. I was, a near grown man, sat in his dank, dark and rickety digs, feverishly hovering about the glare of a computer screen like a disorientated moth, one searching for a flaming light of recognition from someone/anyone!

Tom Conrad

#27. 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

#28. Like the moth whose feet are caught in the molten wax of a candle, Rouget rapidly used up his remaining energy.

Honore De Balzac

#29. 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

#30. Consider the stars. Among them are no passions, no wars. They know neither love nor hatred. Did man but emulate the stars, would not his soul become clear and radiant as they are? But man's spirit draws him like a moth to the ephemera of this world, and in their heat he is consumed entire.

Sarah Monette

#31. ...like a moth lost in dawn's light.

Gisele Pineau

#32. Then Freddie was transformed into a moth. His old empty body fell forward face first into the water with a splash. Slicked back hair tied in a ponytail floated on the surface of the pool like a dead rodent on the sea as Freddie fluttered up towards a nearby streetlamp.

Stephen Livingston

#33. 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

#34. The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.

Steven Chu

#35. 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

#36. Just then, down through the last glimmer of twilight, stepping high and free, like a cloud, a moth, a ghost in the shape of a horse - came the Silver Stallion. Wild, beautiful, and free as the wind he came, from one kingdom to another, Thowra

Elyne Mitchell

#37. Everything about the man screamed danger, so, of course, I was drawn to him like a moth to a flame. Confidence radiated off of him in waves. I was immediately reminded of how you could tell a man made love by the way he danced.

Lora Ann

#38. How, like a moth, the simple maid Still plays around the flame!

John Gay

#39. It felt as though I had been holding on to Sally all these years, by the tips of my fingers. Just holding on. She was like a moth, fragile and fleeting. One rough breath, one lurch , one tiny movement of your hand and she'd fly away from you.

Belinda Jeffrey

#40. Like a moth to a flame we become helpless to the beautiful ghosts that true love sheds.

Ryan O'Neal

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

Lindsay Chamberlin

#42. I sure wasn't going to ask Aunt Sally, because if she told me once that getting your period was like a moth becoming a butterfly, she'd probably say that sexual intercourse was like a deer getting antlers or something.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

#43. She was drawn to damaged souls like a moth to a flame.

Anna McPartlin

#44. 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

#45. I find a fascination, like the fascination for the moth of a star, in those who hold aloof and disdain me.

Logan Pearsall Smith

#46. He rubbed my arm, whispering words that sounded like moth bodies flying into glass windows.

Lauren DeStefano

#47. Poetry is like an unexpected noise in the night: the creak of a door, a footstep on the porch, the soft scuffle of a moth against the screen, which rouses every sense to an instant alert. So comes poetry to the drowsy mind, which startles a moment, wonders, and returns to sleep.

Christopher Morley

#48. I seem to draw the crazies like a moth to a flame. Ian says the bugs come to the light.

Willow Aster

#49. Maybe I didn't try as hard as I ought when he started calling you
names. Serves him right, the nasty old turd. Punch him again, Moth - Peaseblossom

Lisa Mantchev

#50. The white sun like a moth on a string circles the southpole.

A.R. Ammons

#51. Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.

Stephen King

#52. 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

#53. Together - like a moth to a flame, there'd be nothing left.

Chloe Neill

#54. I told my mother he looked like a deflated balloon. Greta said he looked like a small gray moth wrapped in a spider's web. That's because everything about Greta is more beautiful, even the way she says things.

Carol Rifka Brunt

#55. When we became teenagers boredom grew like a moth in a cocoon fighting to escape, and the peace created by our parents became a prison. We sought excitement and adventure. We sought anything but the sinless, pure, and average of the faux idyllic.

Scott Thompson