From deeply meaningful words of wisdom to uplifting and romantic sentiments, famous dragonfly quotes offer sage advice and thought-provoking ideas about life. The Dragonfly has been a powerful symbol of happiness, new beginnings and change for many centuries. The Dragonfly means hope, change, love and can help you on your own journey.
So, take a deep breath and let dragonfly quotes uplift your spirit and motivate you to make the most of your life.
Best Dragonfly Quotes
Restless dragonfly, darting, dancing over the ribbons of trailing weed. Arthur Christopher Benson
If you are old and you wish to be young again if only for a moment, try and identify a dragonfly. Simon Barnes
The dragonfly charm. Embrace the magic of nature life will be filled with good fortune. Viola Shipman
Deep in the sun searched growths the dragonfly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky. Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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
Despite its dark veins, the transparency of dragonfly’s wings assures me of a pure, innocent world. Munia Khan
As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame. Gerard Manley Hopkins
This dragonfly. He was hovering right in front of my face. How does he see me? I became enlightened. Ziggy Marley
It’s very far away It takes about a half a day to get there If we travel by dragonfly. Jimi Hendrix
The distant mountain reflected in his eyes dragonfly. Kobayashi Issa
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 splendor, And also her figure so slender. Heinrich Heine
When a dragonfly flutters by, you may not realize, but it’s the greatest flier in natüre. Louie Schwartzberg
Reflected in the dragonfly’s eye mountains. Kobayashi Issa
Smile, to see the lake lay the still sky and out for an easy make the dragonfly. Lorine Niedecker
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
In July the ant works, the dragonfly flaunts. Russian proverb
I’ll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we’ll cling together so tight that nothing and no one’ll ever tear us apart. Every atom of me and every atom of you. We’ll live in birds and flowers and dragonflies and pine trees and in clouds and in those little specks of light you see floating in sunbeams. And when they use our atoms to make new lives, they wont’ just be able to take one, they’ll have to take two, one of you and one of me, we’ll be joined so tight. Philip Pullman
One can hardly believe a dragonfly laid the eagle eggs. Georgian proverb
Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and the air was full of the piping of the songbirds. Long, glinting dragonflies shot across the path, or hung tremulous with gauzy wings and gleaming bodies. Arthur Conan Doyle
The sun is lowering below the lines of the mountains that encase the town, and stars sparkle across the sky like dragonflies. Jessica Sorensen
Perhaps everything lies in knowing what words to speak, what actions to perform, and in what order and rhythm; or else someone’s gaze, answer, gesture is enough; it is enough for someone to do something for the sheer pleasure of doing it, and for his pleasure to become the pleasure of others at that moment, all spaces change, all heights, distances; the city is transfigured, becomes crystalline, transparent as a dragonfly. Italo Calvino
Living things tend to change unrecognizably. Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva the lawyer from the infant? Diane Ackerman
Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stopping to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky. Janet Fitch
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
I got to keep a clip for my hair. It had a pretty little dragonfly on it and I got to keep it. Mackenzie Foy
I need to capture my sprite with trembling hands. Except I could crush her. Wonder how many small things of beauty flowers, seashells, dragonflies have met such a demise. Wonder how much fragile love has collapsed beneath the weight of confession. Ellen Hopkins
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
A dragonfly arrives and leaves like a change of mind. David Mitchell
He was becoming unstuck, he was sure of that his bones were no longer wrapped in flesh but in clouds of dust, in hummingbirds, dragonflies, and luminous moths but so perfect was his equilibrium that he felt no fear. He was vast, he was many, he was dynamic, he was eternal. Tom Robbins
And in time it will be as though men had never come to this perfect corner of the world never called it paradise on earth, never despoiled it with their dream factories; and in the golden hush of the afternoon all that will be heard will be the flittering of dragonflies, and the murmur of hummingbirds as they pass from bower to bower, looking for a place to sup sweetness. Clive Barker
Sophia and Grandmother sat down by the shore to discuss the matter further. It was a pretty day, and the sea was running a long, windless swell. It was on days just like this dog days that boats went sailing off all by themselves. Large, alien objects made their way in from sea, certain things sank and others rose, milk soured, and dragonflies danced in desperation. Lizards were not afraid. When the moon came up, red spiders mated on uninhabited skerries, where the rock became an unbroken carpet of tiny, ecstatic spiders. Tove Jansson
On dragonfly wings with buttercup tea. Indian proverb
All these words, words like evil and vicious, they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention. John Marsden
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
Whoever the kid had been, whoever had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and the law You just change your attitude now please, young man. This transformation in kids from flashing dragonflies, so to say, to sticky water surface worms slowly slipping downstream is noticed with pride by society and with mortification by God, which is a fantastic way of saying I don’t like to see kids throw away their truth just because it isn’t worth a dime in the open market. William Saroyan
Intoxications of life’s morning! Enchanted years! The wing of a dragonfly trembles! Oh, reader, whoever you may be, do you have such memories? Victor Hugo
The girls chirped and chatted like uncaged warblers. They were delirious with joy. Intoxications of life’s morning! Enchanted years! The wing of a dragonfly trembles! Oh, reader, whoever you may be, do you have such memories? Have you walked in the underbrush, pushing aside branches for the charming head behind you? Have you slid laughing, down some slope wet with rain, with the woman you loved? Victor Hugo
The point of the dragonfly’s terrible lip, the giant water bug, birdsong, or the beautiful dazzle and flash of sunlighted minnows,is not that it all fits together like clockwork for it doesn’tbut that it all flows so freely wild, like the creek, that it all surges in such a free, finged tangle. Freedom is the world’s water and weather, the world’s nourishment freely given, its soil and sap and the creator loves pizzazz. Annie Dillard
A wet dragonfly can fly again! Anaka Jones
Sitting on the floor of a room in Japan, looking out on a small garden with flowers blooming and dragonflies hovering in space, I suddenly felt as if I had been too long above my boots. Mark Tobey
The dragonfly pauses in the middle of an April rain to listen to the girl who cries. The girl. looks at the dragonfly and wonders what it means to pause in the middle of an April rain. Robyn
Without constraint, without any form of mental compulsion, the act of belief becomes the freest possible projection of what resides in our hearts. Like the poet’s image of a church bell that reveals its latent music only when struck, or a dragonfly that flames forth its beauty only in flight, so does the content of a human heart lie buried until action calls it forth. The greatest act of self revelation occurs when we choose what we will believe, in that space of freedom that exists between knowing that a thing is and knowing that a thing is not. Terryl L. Givens
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long. James Thurber
Yesterday, a child came out to wonder, caught a dragonfly inside a jar. Fearful when the sky was full of thunder and tearful at the falling of a star. Joni Mitchell
Unless you are here this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and become scorpions scratching blood out of rocks. The rainbows that dangle upon this mist shatter. Like the smile of a child separated from his mother’s milk for the very first time from poem Blood and Blossoms. Aberjhani
Magic is seeing wonder in nature’s every little thing, seeing how wonderful the fireflies are and how magical are the dragonflies. Ama H.Vanniarachchy
Dragonflies are reminders that we are light and we can reflect light in powerful ways if we choose to do so. Robyn Nola
I love to see the sunshine on the wings of the Dragonflies there is magic in it. Ama H.Vanniarachchy
Dragonflies didn’t imagine they could sense the future. They just flew about, enjoying the sun on their wings. Kate Morton
The world is a fascinating place. How could anyone be bored? Look around and there are a hundred amazing things to investigate. Cindy Crosby
Anyone can buy a car or a night on the town. I don’t mean gawking at the Chrysler Building. I’m talking about the wing of a dragonfly. Amor Towles
Danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light the air was full of glinting dragonflies shot with gauzy wings and gleaming bodies. Arthur Conan Doyle
Dragonflies are an endless pleasure. Cindy Crosby
When you pay attention, you prop the door of your soul ajar to welcome the unexpected and the uncontrolled. You can’t access your interior landscape by banging down a closed door; you can pencil it in as an appointment on your calendar. Paying attention is a habit forming mind set that comes with repetition and with intention. You give yourself permissiong to do nothing. You create quiet spaces. You open a door. Cindy Crosby
Chasing dragonflies, like buying good books or eating gourmet food, can be curiously addicting. Cindy Crosby
Dragonflies say mystery to me. Cindy Crosby
The dragonfly exists because it exists and for no other reason. Marty Rubin
Dragonflies hover on an abundance of air. Anthony T. Hincks
When we were children, everything scared us. The harmless dragonfly, for example, was called ‘the devil’s darning needle. The creature hovered all around us int he summertime, ready to sew up the ears and lips of disobedient children. To us, even a common snipe, owl, or bittern calling from the marsh, might be a voice from the other side. Tom Dawe
May you touch dragonflies and stars, dance with fairies, and talk to the moon. Paulette M.
I’m inspired by how dragonflies are both tough and fragile; fierce and mild. Cindy Crosby
There are so many reasons to fall in love with dragonflies. They have intriguing stories to tell us. They make our world a more beautiful place. And they are scrappy survivors. Cindy Crosby
A dragonfly to remind me even though we are apart. Your spirit is always with me. Robyn Nola
Did you know that at the time of the dinosaurs. Some dragonflies could be as big as a hawk. Paulette Morin
The dragonfly brings dreams to reality and is the messenger of wisdom and enlightenment from other realms. Marty Rubin
Magic is seeing the wonder in nature’s every little thing, seeing how wonderful the fireflies are and how magical are the dragonflies. Ama H.Vanniarachchy
Dragonflies are the keepers of dreams. Dragonflies inspire creativity. Agnes E.
The dragonfly spiritually embodies the stripping away of negativity that holds us back. Amor Towles
Their love as a dragonfly stoppin to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky. Janet Fitch
