Quotes About Insect

#1. Maybe he's become addicted to living, he thinks, its gentle terror like the rush of insect wings against his face.

Jennifer Mills

#2. I had that trapped feeling, like some sort of a poor insect that you've put inside a downturned glass, and it tries to climb up the sides, and it can't, and it can't, and it can't.

Cornell Woolrich

#3. The age of the insect, he thinks. The meek truly shall inherit the earth.

Chuck Wendig

#4. The whole world always burns ... Or it floods. Or some insect eats the crops and you starve ... Every baby you have dies eventually, no matter what you do. Yet we have babies and try to go on.

Orson Scott Card

#5. Insect politics, indifferent universe. Bang your head against the wall, but apathy is worse.

Don Henley

#6. If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to study gene organisation in some obscure insect that no one's ever heard about.

Thomas R. Cech

#7. A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

Samuel Johnson

#8. Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they bear witness to the mystery of God and continually accomplish it themselves.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#9. Mr. Beeblebrox, sir,' said the insect in awed wonder, 'you're so weird you should be in movies.;
'Yeah,' said Zaphod patting the thing on a glittering pink wing, 'and you, baby, should be in real life.' The insect paused for a moment

Douglas Adams

#10. A man that simply loads himself down with possessions of which he has no actual need, when he dies slips out of them
as a little insect might slip out of some parasite shell into which it has ensconced itself
into the grave, and is forgotten.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#11. Ah, Meese has brought us her finest goblets! A moment, whilst Kruppe sweeps out cobwebs, insect husks and other assorted proofs of said goblets' treasured value.

Steven Erikson

#12. C.J. had spoken longingly of finding the African termite queen, the glistening white sac that was half a foot long and as thick as a bratwurst, bursting with eggs and creamy insect fat, the queen you ate alive and whole, and she was said to twitch as she went down your throat. (188)

Richard Preston

#13. Each moss,
Each shell, each drawling insect, holds a rank
Important in the plan of Him who fram'd
This scale of beings; holds a rack which, lost
Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap
Which Nature's self would rue.

Benjamin Stillingfleet

#14. Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's the way music should be listened to. When I listen to music, I want to just listen to music.

David Lynch

#15. A net set up to catch fish may snare a duck; a mantis hunting an insect may itself be set upon by a sparrow. Machinations are hidden within machinations; changes arise beyond changes. So how can wit and cleverness be relied upon?

Zicheng Hong

#16. It is one thing to speak of embracing the new, the fresh, the strange. It is another to feel that one is an insect, crawling across a page of the Encyclopedia Britannica, knowing only that something vast is passing by beneath, all without your sensing more than a yawning vacancy.

Gregory Benford

#17. Each particle of matter is an immensity, each leaf a world, each insect an inexplicable compendium.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#18. The normal sequence is that energy is prompted at the perceptual system, passes into consciousness, and thence to the motor system, where it is discharged by action. (I feel an unpleasant sensation, realize that I have been bitten by a mosquito, raise my hand, and swat the insect.)

Sigmund Freud

#19. The souls you have got cast upon the screen of publicity appear like the horrid and writhing creatures enlarged from the insect world, and revealed to us by the cinematograph.

James Larkin

#20. Around the steel no tortur'd worm shall twine, No blood of living insect stain my line; Let me, less cruel, cast the feather'd hook, With pliant rod athwart the pebbled brook, Silent along the mazy margin stray, And with the fur-wrought fly delude the prey.

John Gay

#21. I've been collecting bugs since I was ten; it's the only way I can stop their whispers. Sticking a pin through the gut of an insect shuts it up pretty quick.

A.G. Howard

#22. I looked to animal and insect imagery to develop the lack of substance and wasted motion that my Terminator has. I tried to tap into the killer instinct inherent in animals, where they are locked onto a target and will walk through anything that gets between them and their intended target

Robert Patrick

#23. I am inclined to believe that one who is a coward will be born after death as an insect or a worm, that there is no salvation for a coward even after millions of years of penance.

Swami Vivekananda

#24. We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

Charles Darwin

#25. This man is the bee's knees, Arthur, he is the wasp's nipples. He is, I would go so far as to say, the entire set of erogenous zones of every major flying insect of the Western world.

Douglas Adams

#26. If you're an insect, then you're a mayfly. Here for a day and then gone.

Rick Yancey

#27. Amber starts off as sap from a tree," Joseph said in the dark. "And sometimes insects get caught in it, and over millions of years the amber turns into a gemstone, but it traps the insect inside."
"Oh."
"A photograph is sort of like that, don't you think?

Brian Selznick

#28. We'll teach it that the humblest insect measuring out its miserable days by the pug-wuggery and skull duggery of the old Slug of Time is worth far more than this defecating bubble!

John Cowper Powys

#29. The only sensible approach to disease and insect control, I think, is to grow sturdy crops in a healthy environment.

Masanobu Fukuoka

#30. Greenpeace protesters who lived on the trees right above the planned radar location (Google Maps) and who eat environmentally friendly roots, insect, excrements, and dirt.

Lubos Motl

#31. Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.

Alexander Pope

#32. I keep telling you, nobody wants legs like a stick insect. They want a bottom they can park in a bike in and balance a pint of beer on.

Helen Fielding

#33. When people talk about people who are optimistic about gold, they call them 'gold bugs.' A bug is an insect. I don't call equity bugs 'cockroaches.' Do you understand? There is already a negative connotation with the expression of 'gold bug.'

Marc Faber

#34. You're next. It's the next thing. Next stop Kilburn Station. The doors fold inwards, urban insect closing its wings.

Zadie Smith

#35. Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.

Jack Henry Abbott

#36. There are no insect eggs in my food." Mrs. White reiterated.
You should use that in your advertising," Nate suggested.

Brandon Mull

#37. Clearly in textbook terms, the gentleman should text the lady first after intercourse, but perhaps the whole socio-etiquettical system breaks down when an insect plague is involved.

Helen Fielding

#38. Everything is important. To the smallest insect, even the mouldering tree, the deepest stone in the drift.

Marlene Van Niekerk

#39. [He] was an insect wandering in the cathedral his mind had become.

Vernor Vinge

#40. Lobsters displays all three of the classic biological characteristics of an insect, namely: 1. It has way more legs than necessary. 2. There is no way you would ever pet it. 3. It does not respond to simple commands such as "Here, boy!"

Dave Barry

#41. Why is the world so elaborate, if it has no purpose? Think of the care that goes into the least little insect and weed around us. You say you love me; then you must love life. Life is a gift, for which we must give something back.

John Updike

#42. It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.

Rachel Carson

#43. A few insect skeletons lay scattered on the narrow sill, shiny and precise and sad as broken jewelry.

Ed Park

#44. which will enable either a human or an automatic operator to control the insect's movements remotely and to absorb and transmit information.

Yuval Noah Harari

#45. Herein lies our problem. If we level that much land to grow rice and whatever, then no other animal could live there except for some insect pest species. Which is very unfortunate.

Steve Irwin

#46. Bring awareness to the many subtle sounds of nature - The rustling of leaves in the wind, Raindrops falling, The humming of an insect, The first birdsong at dawn.

Eckhart Tolle

#47. Plant consciousness, insect consciousness, fish consciousness, all are related by one permanent element, which we may call the religious element inherent in all life, even in a flea: the sense of wonder. That is our sixth sense, and it is the natural religious sense.

D.H. Lawrence

#48. The more one learns of this intricate interplay of soil, altitude, weather, and the living tissues of plant and insect (an intricacy that has its astonishing moments, as when sundew and butterwort eat the insects), the more the mystery deepens. Knowledge does not dispel mystery.

Nan Shepherd

#49. Persian insect powder, mixed into a paste with petroleum jelly, had killed the lice in her hair, but then she'd inspected her clothes and found them infested with body lice, likely picked up from one of the walking wounded who

Jennifer Robson

#50. The spectacle [of American politics] resembles that of swarms of insects changing from worms to wings. They must get the wings ordie. For our salvation, Mr. Wilbur Wright is providing wings. He will also have to provide a new insect to use them.

Henry Adams

#51. No poetic phantasy
but a biological reality,
a fact: I am an entity
like bird, insect, plant
or sea-plant cell;
I live; I am alive.

Hilda Doolittle

#52. Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?

Alexander Pope

#53. I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.

George Washington Carver

#54. I've been clinging to this world like a discarded shell of an insect stuck to a branch, about to be blown off forever by a gust of wind.

Haruki Murakami

#55. Or he'd watch the news: more plagues, more famines, more floods, more insect or microbe or small-mammal outbreaks, more droughts, more chickenshit boy-soldier wars in distant countries. Why was everything so much like itself?

Margaret Atwood

#56. Soon, the nonstop buzzing of the local insect life gives way to something equally annoying. Country music.

Pittacus Lore

#57. The German passion for bureaucracy
for written and signal forms ... to move about, to work, to exist
is like a steel pin pinning each French individual to a sheet of paper, the way an entomologist pins each specimen insect ...

Janet Flanner

#58. In past summers when I had been home, I had often tasted a strange sadness as I sat quietly in the midst of the seething cicada song. This sorrow seemed to pierce deep into my heart along with the piercing insect cry. Always at such times I would sit alone and still, gazing into myself.

Soseki Natsume

#59. The saliva of each species is different, and trees can match the saliva to the insect. Indeed, the match can be so precise that trees can release pheromones that summon specific beneficial predators.

Peter Wohlleben

#60. She took her coat off as if it had only now occurred to her to do so. She emerged from it like an insect sloughing off its skin.

Haruki Murakami

#61. The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus

Cornelia Funke

#62. Armitage smiled, a smile that meant as much as the twitch of some insect's antenna.

William Gibson

#63. A slug is always on its own. It's a lonely insect.

Karl Pilkington

#64. A well-frog cannot imagine the ocean, nor can a summer insect conceive of ice. How then can a scholar understand the Tao? He is restricted by his own learning.

Benjamin Hoff

#65. Recent estimates suggest there are at least two million tropical insect species and perhaps as many as seven million.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#66. I may be sick. I may come from a hole in the ground. My best friend may be an insect. But at least I don't live in decent society.

Jessica Anthony

#67. He raged for hours. And the skeleton, ever the frail and solelmn philosopher, hung quietly inside, saying not a word, suspended like a delicate insect within a chrysalis, waiting and waiting.

Ray Bradbury

#68. I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#69. The air was still. It was that hour before evening when the sun sheds great horizontal beams just above the horizon and the air itself reveals levels of dust and insect life previously unthought of.

Valerie Martin

#70. I wasn't sad the way a spider isn't an insect.

Lemony Snicket

#71. I fear no man, no woman;
flower does not fear
bird, insect nor adder.

Hilda Doolittle

#72. I can't stop moving. I'm like this weird insect. I can't sit still in real life.

Robin Wright

#73. While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.

Martial

#74. A faint tickling on the back of his right hand caused Eragon to look down. A huge, wingless cricket clung to his glove. The insect was hideous: black and bulbous, with barbed legs and a massive skull-like head. Its carapace gleamed like oil.

Christopher Paolini

#75. The jungle looked back at them with a vastness, a breathing moss-and-leaf silence, with a billion diamond and emerald insect eyes.

Ray Bradbury

#76. Tonight
A friendly breeze
Will agitate roots of meanings.
Wonder will flap its wings.

Deep in the night, an insect
Will gnaw
At the green portion of solitude.
Morning will fall
Into the word of morning.

Sohrab Sepehri

#77. Indeed, our everyday world presents intellectual challenges just as daunting as those of the cosmos and the quantum, and that is where 99 per cent of scientists focus their efforts. Even the smallest insect, with its intricate structure, is far more complex than either an atom or a star.

Martin Rees

#78. Yes, this man had the persistence of an insect.

Patrick Modiano

#79. How resilient people are. If one day you woke up to find that you had been transformed into a gigantic insect, the chances are you would just get up and carry on with your new life.

Paul Broks

#80. The Polito form is dead, insect. Are you afraid? What is it you fear? The end of your trivial existence? When the history of my glory is written, your species shall only be a footnote to my magnificence.

Ken Levine

#81. A toothless wolf is less dangerous than a fanged insect.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#82. But the eyes that he liked the least were horrible pale bulbous sort of eyes. "Insect eyes," he thought, "not animal eyes, only they are much too big.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#83. Because we are no different from any animal, any insect or germule. We are not special, Cal. You, me, we all came from nothing, and that's exactly where we're all going one day, maybe soon, whether we like it or not.

Brian Williams

#84. Spray a bug with a toxin and it dies; spray a man, spray his brain, and he becomes an insect that clacks and vibrates about in a closed circle forever. A reflex machine, like an ant. Repeating his last instruction.

Philip K. Dick

#85. How could anyone presume to know the world through the eyes of an insect?

Ian McEwan

#86. Like an insect larva that repeatedly molts its skin as it develops, Ayako rapidly transformed from a young girl into a fully-grown woman.

Osamu Tezuka

#87. I've come to realize that the mark is the primal gesture, the internal connection of the caveman to the cosmos; an impossibility similar to an impulse in an insect's nervous system that it could somehow reduce to dust a steel beam by endlessly crawling over it.

Joel-Peter Witkin

#88. As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.

Franz Kafka

#89. Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?

George Eliot

#90. We're not having sex, are we?"
"No," Talia confirmed. "Don't take it the wrong way, you're by far the nicest insect I've ever spent time with, but first contact is one thing. I'm not sure my reputation can take sleeping with the first alien I meet.

Gavin G. Smith

#91. I was a small insect faced with a formidable male network web in which I might be ensnared but never a part.

Patricia Cornwell

#92. I hate banana bread. It's too suspicious-looking. I always thought the cooked banana looked like insect legs.

Elizabeth Berg

#93. In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living.

Karen Armstrong

#94. Spray a book with insect spray, drop it in a bag, add some mothballs and seal it. Put it in another bag and seal it. Another. The packages piled up on the floor, each a book sealed in four plastic envelopes.

Larry Niven

#95. For decades, I have cringed whenever someone called me 'illegal,' as if I'm an insect on someone's back. I found out I didn't have the right papers - that I was here illegally - when I tried to get a driver's permit at age 16. But I am not 'illegal.' No person is.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#96. In handling a stinging insect, move very slowly.

Robert A. Heinlein

#97. At some point, some insect has had sex with a leaf.

Karl Pilkington

#98. No rustle came from the trees, no insect buzz or neighbors call ... The woods were silent in their grief.

Leigh Bardugo

#99. Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.

Honore De Balzac

#100. The second Mrs. Helstone, inversing the natural order of insect existence, would have fluttered through the honeymoon a bright, admired butterfly, and crawled the rest of her days a sordid trampled worm.

Charlotte Bronte