Ravens Quotes

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

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Behave

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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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• 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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• 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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• Why is a raven like a writing desk?

  Lewis Carroll

  Writing, Mad, Wonderland

  Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 7 (1865).

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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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• There is nothing else in magic but the wild thought of the bird as it casts itself into the void. There is no creature upon the earth with such potential for magic. Even the least of them may fly straight out of this world and come by chance to the Other Lands. Where does the wind come from that blows upon your face, that fans the pages of your book? Where the harum-scarum magic of small wild creatures meets the magic of Man, where the language of the wind and the rain and the trees can be understood, there we will find the Raven King.

  Susanna Clarke

  Kings, Rain, Book

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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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• 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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• Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Tombstone, Nevermore

  "The Raven" l. 101 (1845)

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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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• To fight the raven you may make alliance with the serpent until the battle is done.

  Robert Jordan

  Fighting, Battle, Done

  Robert Jordan (2010). “Knife of Dreams: Book Eleven of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.14, Macmillan

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• Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.]

  Juvenal

  Wicked, Innocent, Dove

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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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• It wasn't for nothing that the raven was just now croaking on my left hand.

  Plautus

  Hands, Justice, Left Hand

  Titus Maccius Plautus (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Plautus (Illustrated)”, p.189, Delphi Classics

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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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• 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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