Quotes About Dragonflies

#1. Dragonflies didn't imagine they could sense the future; they just flew about, enjoying the sun on their wings.

Kate Morton

#2. The annual flight of the dragonflies goes mostly unnoticed, though it is one of the great migrations of flying creatures that occur across North America.

Richard Preston

#3. Sounds buzz around me, and I'm sure the painted dragonflies have come loose from the frieze on our walls to flap their wings in my ears, making my skin prickle and crawl as tides of sickness wash me away.

Sarah Miller

#4. Magic is seeing wonder in nature's every little thing, seeing how wonderful the fireflies are and how magical are the dragonflies.

Ama H. Vanniarachchy

#5. There were nearly as many frogs in the shallows, where lily pads floated. Some water lily flowers were white and some were yellow and some were the palest pink. Dragonflies darted above the water, their iridescent wings catching the glint of the sunlight.

Alice Hoffman

#6. Rowan was cocky, impatient, and downright infuriating. He winked and my stomach felt like a hundred dragonflies were doing summersaults. Nope, I refuse to be attracted to him.

Stacey O'Neale

#7. I love to see the sunshine on the wings of the Dragonflies... there is magic in it.

Ama H. Vanniarachchy

#8. 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

#9. The sun is lowering below the lines of the mountains that encase the town and stars sparkle across the sky like dragonflies.

Jessica Sorensen

#10. I feel the fluttering
of dragonflies - summer creatures
that have no use for words.

Larissa Nash

#11. Bees and butterflies, moths and dragonflies, the flowers and the brooks and the clouds.

George MacDonald

#12. A barge of mist floated along the water, and dragonflies, iridescent blue ones, darted back and forth like they were stitching up the air.

Sue Monk Kidd

#13. She was a fly, but the others were dragonflies, butterflies, beautiful insects, dancing, fluttering, skimming, while she alone dragged herself up out of the saucer.

Virginia Woolf

#14. Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and the air was full of the piping of the song-birds. Long, glinting dragonflies shot across the path, or hung tremulous with gauzy wings and gleaming bodies.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#15. O, Senator, drop your trousers! Loosen your cravat! Eschew your spats and step into that shallow, teeming world of mayflies and dragonflies and frogs' eyes staring eye-to-eye with your own, and the silty bottom. Cease your filibuster against the world God gave you.

Paul Harding

#16. Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.

James Thurber

#17. It seemed to give shape to the open air, or rather to reveal the hidden architecture that was there all along - the invisible cathedral that vaulted over the surface of the pond - known only to sparrows and dragonflies but invisible to the human eye.

Amor Towles

#18. Sitting on the floor of a room in Japan, looking out on a small garden with flowers blooming and dragonflies hovering in space, I suddenly felt as if I had been too long above my boots.

Mark Tobey

#19. He was becoming unstuck, he was sure of that - his bones were no longer wrapped in flesh but in clouds of dust, in hummingbirds, dragonflies, and luminous moths - but so perfect was his equilibrium that he felt no fear. He was vast, he was many, he was dynamic, he was eternal.

Tom Robbins

#20. I need to capture my sprite with trembling hands. Except I could crush her. Wonder how many small things of beauty - flowers, seashells, dragonflies - have met such a demise. Wonder how much fragile love has collapsed beneath the weight of confession.

Ellen Hopkins

#21. There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.

Eric Hoffer

#22. The crushed carcasses of slugs and frogs mixing with the Cretaceous carbons of tar give the road an organic glaze.

Robert Michael Pyle

#23. I think Donald Trump has done everything he can to take us back to policies like we had during the McCarthy years.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#24. It's very far away/It takes about a half a day to get there/ If we travel by-dragonfly.

Jimi Hendrix

#25. The beauteous dragonfly's dancing By the waves of the rivulet glancing; She dances here and she dances there, The glimmering, glittering flutterer fair. Full many a beetle with loud applause Admires her dress of azure gauze, Admires her body's bright splendour, And also her figure so slender ...

Heinrich Heine

#26. If you are old and you wish to be young again, if only for a moment, try and identify a dragonfly.

Simon Barnes

#27. I'm guilty as sin, but hopefully I can persuade you otherwise by showing you something that's truthful and that casts me in a halo-like light that will convince you that someone like me could never do what I'm being accused of doing.

Philip Houston

#28. Tom Brady is a great quarterback, he's a great player, and what you've seen with him is he's gotten better every year.

Eli Manning

#29. I got to keep a clip for my hair. It had a pretty little dragonfly on it and I got to keep it

Mackenzie Foy

#30. Keep going on hikes, keep having your friends in your life, keep that downtime sacred as well because as hard as you work in any job, it's really nice to have the relaxing de-stressors. Stress is the worst thing. That's the ultimate demise of any good thing.

Dianna Agron

#31. I understand that it's good tactics to categorize me as a close-minded, unobjective extremist, but nobody that respects me has those views.

Alan Dershowitz

#32. The Dragonfly Charm

Embrace The Magic of Nature & Life Will Be Filled with Good Fortune

Viola Shipman