Bird Quotes

Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.

I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.'

The beauty of the landscape - where sand, water, reeds, birds, buildings, and people all somehow flowed together - has never left me.

As far as what I do love, I love birds; I love lavender.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

My ex-girlfriend owned a parakeet…oh my god, that f**king thing would never shut up. But the bird was cool.

They cripple the bird's wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they.

Ever make mistakes in life? Let's make them birds. Yeah, they're birds now.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

A bird can fly as high as it wants but it eventually has to come down to earth and get some water... and when it comes down to get that water that's when you strike.

I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved. The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of Divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for until the cord be broken, the bird cannot fly.

The birds are the saints, who fly to heaven on the wings of contemplation, who are so removed from the world that they have no business on earth. They do not labour, but by contemplation alone they already live in heaven.

Temptations, of course, cannot be avoided, but because we cannot prevent the birds from flying over our heads, there is no need that we should let them nest in our hair.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

Jonathan Livingston Seagull . . . was no ordinary bird. Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight how to get from shore to food and back again. For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight. More than anything else, Jonathan Livingston Seagull loved to fly.

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.

If we allow our thoughts to arise and dissolve by themselves, they will pass through our mind as a bird flies through the sky, without leaving a trace.

Quick as a hummingbird...she darts so eagerly, swiftly, sweetly dipping into the flowers of my heart.

I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds.

What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.

Find a day for yourself-better yet, late at night. Go to the forest or to the field, or lock yourself in a room ... You will meet solitude there. There you will be able to listen attentively to the noise of the wind first, to birds singing, to see wonderful nature and to notice yourself in it ... and to come back to harmonic connection with the world and its Creator.

I'd like to be like a hummingbird. You see them every now and then. You don't see them everywhere.