Ravens Quotes

• On the road to wisdom, behave like a raven and observe everything carefully!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Behave

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• Some battles are won with swords and spears, others with quills and ravens.

  George R. R. Martin

  Battle, Quills, Spears

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Storm of Swords: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Three”, p.78, Bantam

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• Ravens are the birds I'll miss most when I die. If only the darkness into which we must look were composed of the black light of their limber intelligence. If only we did not have to die at all. Instead, become ravens.

  Louise Erdrich

  Light, Bird, Missing

  Louise Erdrich (2009). “The Painted Drum: A Novel”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• When you do what you want, not what you wish...' said the first raven. 'When you no longer seek your reflection in others' eyes...' said the second. 'When you see yourselves face to face...' said the third. 'Then,' the ravens intoned in unison, 'you will have found what you truly seek.

  Adam Gidwitz

  Eye, Reflection, Wish

  Adam Gidwitz (2012). “In a Glass Grimmly”, p.73, Penguin

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• Cruel birds, ravens, but wise. And creatures should be loved for their wisdom if they cannot be loved for kindness.

  Hannah Kent

  Wise, Kindness, Bird

  Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.33, Pan Macmillan

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• And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting...

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Sitting Still, Nevermore, Stills

  "The Raven" l. 103 (1845)

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• Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.

  Jim Morrison

  Death, Angel, Wings

  Song: A Feast Of Friends

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• The raven spread out its glossy wings and departed like hope.

  Cecilia Dart-Thornton

  Wings, Departed, Spread

  Cecilia Dart-Thornton (2007). “The Battle of Evernight: Bitterbynde 3”, p.363, Tor Australia

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• Mad Hatter: “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?” “Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again. “No, I give it up,” Alice replied: “What’s the answer?” “I haven’t the slightest idea,” said the Hatter

  Lewis Carroll

  Writing, Ideas, Giving

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• Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wisdom, Smell, Bird

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• Raven?' Yes?' What do you believe in?' I believe in - finding out!

  Ellen Schreiber

  Believe, Vampire Kisses, Findings

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• Entranced by the flight of a raven, I watch its shadow move effortlessly against golden, shimmering granite. I long to be that free, flying above the cluttered world of normalcy, where so many are half alive.

  Dean Potter

  Moving, Long, Flying

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• Sorrow is not a raven perched persistently above a chamber door. Sorrow is a thing with teeth, and while in time it retreats, it comes back at the whisper of it's name.

  Dean Koontz

  Doors, Names, Sorrow

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• From warriors ravens grew red And with their leader a host attacked.

  Taliesin

  Warrior, Leader, Red

  Taliesin, “The Battle Of Argoed Llwyfain”

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• Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. - Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.

  Juvenal

  Censorship, Dove, Pursue

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• Ravens bring things to people. We're like that. It's our nature. We don't like it.

  Peter S. Beagle

  People

  Peter S Beagle (2007). “A Fine & Private Place”, p.15, Tachyon Publications

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• So lonely I make friends with the ravens that prey on lambs.

  Hannah Kent

  Lonely, Lambs, Prey

  Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.110, Pan Macmillan

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• Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!” Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Heart, Doors, Form

  "The Raven" l. 101 (1845)

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• How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled!

  John Milton

  Fall, Night, Wings

  1634 Comus, A Mask, l.248-51.

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• Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Tombstone, Nevermore

  "The Raven" l. 101 (1845)

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• The raven once in snowy plumes was drest,
  White as the whitest dove's unsullied breast,
  Fair as the guardian of the Capitol,
  Soft as the swan; a large and lovely fowl
  His tongue, his prating tongue had changed him quite
  To sooty blackness from the purest white.

  Ovid

  White, Swans, Lovely

  Ovid (1833). “Ovid”, p.56

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• To all new truths, or renovation of old truths, it must be as in the ark between the destroyed and the about-to-be renovated world. The raven must be sent out before the dove, and ominous controversy must precede peace and the olive wreath.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Truth, Ark, Wreaths

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.342

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• And the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas Just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming Of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamplight o'er him streaming Throws his shadow on the floor, And my soul from out that shadow, That lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted - nevermore.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dream, Lying, Eye

  "The Raven" l. 107 (1845)

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• My love is like some raven at my window with a broken wing.

  Bob Dylan

  Love Is, Wings, Broken

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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• He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.

  Seneca the Younger

  Eye, Sheep, Sick

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