Quotations

«Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing»

«The problem with cats is that they get the same exact look whether they see a moth or an ax-murderer»

«Like a moth to a flame we become helpless to the beautiful ghosts that true love sheds»

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

«Life is a frail moth flyingCaught in the web of the years that pass.»

«And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.»

«He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.»

«Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up: / It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, / Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker? / Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly: / How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth? / They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.»

«How, like a moth, the simple maid / Still plays about the flame!»

«The moth's kiss, first! / Kiss me as if you made believe / You were not sure, this eve, / How my face, your flower, had pursed / Its petals up.»