Dragonfly Quotes & Sayings
“Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? …We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves.” – Diane Ackerman
“Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over Echo Park, stopping to visit the lotus. They weren’t going to be like everyone else, they were Blaise and Jeanne, eating dreams and drinking blue sky.” – Janet Fitch
“Go to sleep, baby,Mama will sing. Of blue butterflies, and dragonfly wings. Moonlight and sunbeams, raiments so fine. Silver and gold, for baby of mine. Go to sleep, baby. Sister will tell, of wolves and of lambs, and demons who fell.” – Kim Harrison
“Reflected in the dragonfly’s eye – mountains.” – Kobayashi Issa
“This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.” – Ziggy Marley
“Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.” – James Thurber
“Did you know that at the time of the dinosaurs, insects could grow to be huge? Some dragonflies could be as big as a hawk.” – Paulette Morin
“Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragon-fly/Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky/So this winged hour is dropt to us from above/ Oh! clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower/This close-companioned inarticulate hour/When twofold silence was the song of love.” – Dante Gabriel Rossetti
“I can still only see a dragonfly, its wings as thin and light as silk and its body the color of rainbow. But on the wings of this dragonfly I take off and fly, for my soul carries no weight. It is our bodies – these borrowed vehicles of flesh and bone – that weigh us down. Our spirits are eternally free and invincible.” – Daniela I. Norris
“The dragon-fly is dancing/Is on the water glancing/She flits about with nimble wing/The flickering, fluttering, restless thing./Besotted chafers all admire/Her light-blue, gauze-like, neat attire/They laud her blue complexion/And think her shape perfection…” – Heinrich Heine
“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
“Dragonflies are reminders that we are light/and we can reflect light in powerful ways if we choose to do so.” – RobynNola.com
“A dragonfly to remind me even though we are apart, Your spirit is always with me, forever in my heart…” – Author Unknown – Pinterest
“Realizing your true potential in a way that also benefits other people, is the ultimate expression of the power of the dragonfly.” – Author Unknown – QuotesGram
“The dragonfly brings dream to reality and is the messenger of wisdom and enlightenment from other realms.” – Author Unknown
“May you touch dragonflies and and stars, dance with fairies and talk to the moon.” – fb/Our Minds Meadow
“The dragonfly reminds us to embrace change…living life to its fullest. It leaves the underwater world it has called home for years to live at the whim of the winds in its brief time as a beautiful flying being.” – Author Unknown – Quotegram
“Dragonflies symbolize the change in perspective of Yourself.” – SignsofAngels.com
“The dragonfly spiritually embodies the stripping away of negativity that holds us back, helping us to achieve our dreams and goals. Dragonflies are the keepers of dreams, the energy within that sees all of our true potential and ability. Dragonflies inspire spirituality and creativity, they help us on the path of discovery and enlightenment. They reminder us that anything is possible.” – Beauty and the Green
“I am the dragonfly rising on the wings of unlocked dreams on the verge of magical things.” – Aimee Stewart
“The Dragonfly brings dreams to reality and is the messenger of wisdom and enlightenment from other realms.” – Author Unknown
“Bound by Blood, Marked by the Dragonfly.” – L.L. Akers
“Despite its dark veins, the transparency of dragonfly’s wings assures me of a pure, innocent world.” – Munia Khan
“Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant?…We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves.” – Diane Ackerman
“Anyone can buy a car or a night on the town. Most of us shell our days like peanuts. One in a thousand can look at the world with amazement. I don’t mean gawking at the Chrysler Building. I’m talking about the wing of a dragonfly. The tale of the shoeshine. Walking through an unsullied hour with an unsullied heart.” – Amor Towles
“So, that was Nature’s way. The mosquito felt pain and panic but the dragonfly knew nothing of cruelty. Humans would call it evil, the big dragonfly destroying the mosquito and ignoring the little insects suffering. Yet humans hated mosquitoes too, calling them vicious and bloodthirsty. All these words, words like ‘evil’ and ‘vicious’, they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.” – John Marsden
“The dragonfly is a transformer of the people because they believed they went to the Star Nation and came back as dragonflies. Dragonflies were born in water like us and like us they when they are born and come out of the water they can’t go back to where we were all water babies. Water will always attract the two-legged people of this earth.” – Agnes Baker-Pilgrim
Dragonfly Proverbs
“Like a dragonfly skimming the surface of the water; touch on something without going into it deeply.” – Unknown
“On dragonfly wings with buttercup tea.” – Indian
“In July the ant works, the dragonfly flaunts.” – Russian
“One can hardly believe a dragonfly laid the eagle eggs.” – Georgian