Raven Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old raven quotes, raven sayings, and raven proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Some battles are won with swords and spears, others with quills and ravens. George R.R. Martin
"Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!" / Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.” Edgar Allan Poe
The raven spread out its glossy wings and departed like hope. Cecilia Dart-Thornton
Ravens are at home everywhere. They only have one enemy: humans. Bernd Heinrich
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
Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws. Jim Morrison
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? Friedrich Nietzsche
My love, she's like some raven / At my window with a broken wing. Bob Dylan
Needless to say, urgings by ravens are ignored at one's peril. James D. Doss
To fight the raven you may make alliance with the serpent until the battle is done. Robert Jordan
Honestly, all crows are not ravens Munia Khan
The cry of a young raven is nothing but the natural cry of a creature, but your cry, if it be sincere, is the result of a work of grace in your heart. Charles Spurgeon
And the crow once called the raven black. George R.R. Martin
A fairly good crow or a raven can lay pretty nearly as good an egg. Henrik Ibsen
One raven does not peck out another's eyes. Danish proverb
Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove. Juvenal
The raven himself is hoarse / That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan / Under my battlements. William Shakespeare
But the black raven, the bird over the fated men, will tell, will say to the eagle, how he succeeded at the meal, when he with the wolf plundered the slaughtered ones. The Beowulf Poet
For this reason, the lean wolf in the wold / rejoiced, and the dark raven, a bird greedy for slaughter. Cynewulf
It is said that when Raven created the first world, he made everything perfect, a world full of happiness and beauty, without pain, suffering, or ugliness. But Raven grew bored with this perfect world and started reshaping things. Catharine Feher-Elston