White Moth Quotes

#1. Just now,
Out of the strange
Still dusk ... as strange, as still ...
A white moth flew ... Why am I grown
So cold?

Adelaide Crapsey

#2. The white moth to the closing vine,
The bee to the open clover,
And the Gypsy blood to the Gypsy blood
Ever the wide world over.

Rudyard Kipling

#3. There are queer things, evil things, out yonder, and there are bones of white men bleaching in the sun who have sought to know too much. Curiosity doesn't pay yonder.

("The Great White Moth")

Frederick Merrick White

#4. The white moth of hope fluttered before her face.

Cornell Woolrich

#5. What a moth might see from birth to death if black were white and white were black,

Stan Brakhage

#6. Sometimes I think and other times I am.

Paul Valery

#7. She'd been imagining for the last fifteen or more years that if you disappeared, if you abandoned a wife and child, you did so for a better life: more happiness, more sex, more money, more of whatever was missing from your previous life.

Julian Barnes

#8. In Australia we can take a playbook back to California from people who have actually adopted best practises, who have seen those practises play out over the years and plan for future droughts.

Marc Levine

#9. I'd tell you to shove your condescending tone up your ass, but a big stick got there first.

Dawn Jayne

#10. The parent knows that the child cannot be artificially motivated to learn; they know that he is already motivated by the strongest driving force on earth: his inner intent.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

#11. My little girl, five years old already. All our plans will one day come and go, won't they?

M.A. Larson

#12. Since science and religion provide two different perspectives on the human situation, they must ultimately be able to be reconciled.

Jeremy Griffith

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

W.B.Yeats

#14. Life can be hard at times. People can be hard on each other. Being hard on yourself is completely unnecessary.

Ron Baratono

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

A.R. Ammons

#16. I don't know if I'd call either of them restless. Maybe hyperactive about some things. Anyway, I think as long as your soul is still attached to your body, it's impossible for it to be restless. I think you go where your spirit takes you.

Angela Johnson

#17. [Her delicate beauty must avoid a strong light. There is something about her uncertain manner, as well as her white clothes, that suggests a moth.]

Tennessee Williams

#18. Had been taking much pains to seek the acquaintance, and proclaim the value of the connection, as he had formerly taken pains to shew neglect.

Jane Austen