Quotes About Wings

Very soon he will vanish completely in the wings of his own wordless stanza. [ ] but his stanza is not completely empty [ * ]

On Rahel's heart Pappachi's moth snapped open its somber wings. Out. In. And lifted its legs. Up. Down.

I look for those with hidden wings, and for scars that those who once had wings can't hide.

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

And all around them, the bestiality of the night rises on tenebrous wings. The vampire's time has come.

The exhilaration was hard to explain. It was a lonely feeling — a somehow melancholy feeling. He was outside; he passed on the wings of the wind, and none of the people beyond the brightly lighted squares of their windows saw him. They were inside, inside where there was light and warmth. They didn't know he had passed them; only he knew. It was a secret thing.

Look not long at what's offered, for every precious thing has wings and may fly away.

If I were a pattern, I would be the pattern of paint that a bird would make if you dipped a bird's wings in watercolour and then set the bird loose inside a paper lantern. I'm pretty sure that's it!

My hand-stitched wings itchto take flightto test the winds of changethat inevitably blow at the end of a cycle.

Love without friendship is like a kite, aloft only when the winds are favorable. Friendship is what gives love its wings.

You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings and soar with them above a common bound.

Your acts of kindness are iridescent wings of divine love, which linger and continue to uplift others long after your sharing.

Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths; Love laps his wings on either side the heart Absorbing all the incense of sweet thoughts, So that they pass not to the shrine of sound.

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

a persistent unsettledness of wings.

Long lines of birds are flying over the city. Freedom in their wings.

Wikkity, every time you punch a ninja…an angel gets its wings

The wings of angels are often found on the backs of the least likely people.

Above them, the eagle folded its wings and started to drop toward the ground. "Birchkit!" Ferncloud's shriek tore through the air.

Swallowtail's

Nothing goes far which has not the wings of love to make it buoyant, so that it can fly.

Then there were the angels composed of interlocking wheels covered in sparkling eyes, and the seraphim who had six wings and spent their days circling God's throne, bigging him up through song.

I noticed that in a corner, across from where they ate with such innocent relish, sitting forlorn and abandoned, was the ghost of their son. He had lost both of his arms, one side of his face was squashed, and both his eyes had burst. He had bluish wings. He was the saddest ghost in the house.

Like a clear brook most full of light, Or olives swaying on a height, So silver they have wings, almost; Like a great word once known and lost And meaning all things.