Mourning Cloak Quotes

#1. I'm just a butterfly, a mourning cloak, sealed inside a cocoon with blnd eyes and stiky wings. And suddenly I wonder if the cocoons sometimes do not open, if the butterfly inside is ever simply not strong enough to break through.

Ally Condie

#2. Gardening is a madness, a folly that does not go away with age. Quite the contrary.

May Sarton

#3. Because you're in a band, you go for other people in bands or in the music industry, but people don't grow up right when they're on tour all the time. They don't do the same things as someone who's been at home and gone to school and got a bunch of crappy jobs.

~Allison Robertson

Paul Miles

#4. O, if my husband could only love me even a little and not seem to be perfectly indifferent to any sensation of that kind ... O my poor aching heart when shall it rest its burden only on the Lord.

Emmeline B. Wells

#5. I meditate not to escape the world but instead to be completely present.

Joe Sacco

#6. It was good to be a stranger in a land when you felt aggressive and acquisitive, but when you began to weave your horizons into some kind of shelter it was good to know that hands you loved had helped in their spinning - made you feel as if the threads would hold together better.

Zelda Fitzgerald

#7. There ought not to be anything in the whole universe that man can't poke his nose into-that's the way we're built and I assume that there's some reason for that.

Robert A. Heinlein

#8. ( ... ) an instance when Fate had conspired with Nature to give them a sign that theirs was no ordinary journey.

Amitav Ghosh

#9. Lured by the wilderness, and by the chance of spotting rare desert elephants, a few intrepid tourists make their way to the Skeleton Coast each year. It's just about as remote as any tourist destination on earth, but one that pays fabulous dividends.

Tahir Shah

#10. Helping hands are better than praying lips.

Friends

#11. He might be scary but scary never eradicated hot.

Kristen Ashley

#12. I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.

Abraham Lincoln

#13. I'm writing to hold on to you.

Henriikka Tavi