Top 62 Quotes About Maggots: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Maggots

#1. I thought you loved all this excitement,' Nyx said.
'I love orange-flavored popsicles. Fried maggots on toast. Sunset in Ashura. This? This, I merely tolerate.

Kameron Hurley

#2. They didn't try to burrow into you. They were just crawling. It's what maggots do. They crawl." "You don't know anything." "Hard to argue with that, Commander," says Howler with a laugh in his voice.

Susan Ee

#3. Merry Christmas me bollocks. The words of the Pogues's 'Fairytale of New York' also came to mind: surrounded by scumbags and maggots, I prayed God it would be my last in Los Teques.

Paul Keany

#4. Things I will never like: 1. Drying off with a cold, damp towel. 2. The feeling of seaweed wrapping around my legs. 3. Anything that was popular in the 70's. 4. Licorice, yam, or raisins. 5. That high-pitched screech that babies make. 6. Writhing maggots.

Bill Watterson

#5. - You gave me a dead frog for my birthday!
- To remind you we all die and end up rotting underground eaten by maggots so we should enjoy our birthdays while we have them. I found it thoughtful.

Soman Chainani

#6. The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully. Better you knuckle up and go for yours than have to bow your head and tuck your chain.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#7. Not only are mortals rotten, the very atmosphere in which we live is materially and physically rotten, swarming with maggots, with obscene appearances, poisonous minds, and foul organisms.

Antonin Artaud

#8. I now wondered if the lullaby of death was not a lovely song, but the droning of flies. If flies and maggots were all Death's handmaidens.

Sarah J. Maas

#9. It's better that you leave her alone," she said. "There isn't just water under your bridge, there's maggots and shit and dead bodies. Now, get the fuck out of my house before I call the police.

Tarryn Fisher

#10. She's all over us like maggots on garbage, just because I interfered with one pickpocket yesterday.

Tamora Pierce

#11. I feel no disgust when I hear the confessions of those near their end, whose wounds are full of maggots ... This may give you some idea of my daily work. Picture to yourself a collection of huts with 800 Lepers. No doctor; in fact, as there is no cure, there seems no place for a doctor's skill.

Father Damien

#12. Here's a tip: if even maggots think it's a bad idea, it is a really bad idea.

Kathy Benjamin

#13. The beautiful sum of all human enterprise? It's been dead and rotting for hundreds of years, and those who fight over it are but vultures and maggots.

Pierce Brown

#14. Strong arms wrap around my waist, and a boot kicks the severed hand off my ankle, leaving maggots on my leg. I shut my eyes and try not to squeal. "Get the maggots off me!

Susan Ee

#15. They're not 'fellas.' They're not anywhere near human. They're nothing but leaking sacks of mutated maggots, just like you." Lookswise, he and the other angels I'd seen were closer to living Adonises, complete with god-like faces and presence. But inside, they were maggots for sure.

Susan Ee

#16. You do not see the painting in the attic
The maggots on skin that tear.
The beauty is a trick.
Narcissus - promise naught but air...' ~ Dorian Gray

Stella Coulson

#17. Not only under ground are the brains of men Eaten by maggots, Life in itself Is nothing, An empty cup,

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#18. Look into the mouth of a person and you will find lies, wiggling there like maggots waiting to grow wings.

Max

#19. I have maggots in my scrotum.

Trey Parker

#20. The other side of the "sacred" is the sight of your beloved in the underworld, dripping with maggots.

Gary Snyder

#21. You cannot go poking skeletons in the closet without making maggots wriggle." - Springfield Road

Salena Godden

#22. If I go back home to Wittenberg, I'll lie down in a coffin and give the maggots a fat doctor to eat.

Martin Luther

#23. Take more'n a key to get out of Central Prison. I could open all eight of these gates and wouldn't none of you maggots get halfway out. You'd need all these here. He patted the ring at his hip, making the keys hooked upon it jangle.

Mark Lawrence

#24. Sunlight is bad,' he wheezes. 'It's the exact same stuff as breeds maggots in wounded soldiers' legs. And when there's no war on, it fades wallpaper.

Michel Faber

#25. The boy caught an almost imperceptible movement, the insatiable greed of maggots crawling inside human flesh.

Elif Shafak

#26. Here on the drawing board fingers and noses leak from the air brush maggots lie under if i should die before if i should die in the back room stacked up in smooth boxes like soapflakes or tunafish wait the undreamt of.

Maxine Kumin

#27. How can old wounds heal while maggots linger so richly?

Kazuo Ishiguro

#28. Movement turns dead dogs into maggots and daisies, and flour butter sugar an egg and a tablespoon of milk into Abernethy biscuits, and spermatozoa and ovaries into fishy little plants growing babyward if we take no care to stop them.

Alasdair Gray

#29. Sportswriters are a rude and brainless subculture of fascist drunks, a gang of vicious monkeys jerking off in a zoo cage ... more disgusting by nature than maggots oozing out the carcass of a dead animal.

Hunter S. Thompson

#30. I've eaten sheep's eyes, the still hot meat from a zebra killed by a lion, and maggots which give you 70 calories to the ounce.

Bear Grylls

#31. Grief is a disease. We were riddled with its pockmarks, tormented by its fevers, broken by its blows. It ate at us like maggots, attacked us like lice- we scratched ourselves to the edge of madness. In the process we became as withered as crickets, as tired as old dogs.

Yann Martel

#32. I remember I picked up a person from the street who was nearly eaten up with maggots, and he said, I have lived like an animal, but I am going to die like an angel, loved and cared for.

Mother Teresa

#33. But even the craziest idea can work its way into your mind if you're lonely and grief-stricken and someone keeps harping on it. It can wriggle in there like a bloodworm, and lay its eggs, and pretty soon your whole brain is squirming with maggots. I

Stephen King

#34. It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots,

Gene Weingarten

#35. Through and through the inspired leaves,
Ye maggots, make your windings;
But, oh! respect his lordship's taste,
And spare his golden bindings.

Robert Burns

#36. We could not salvage our clothes; we threw them away and changed into fresh uniforms. We even abandoned our boots. Maggots had worked their way into nooks and crannies of our shoes and occasionally fell onto the floor.

William F. Sine

#37. In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.

Karl Shapiro

#38. Foolishness, sir. How can old wounds heal while maggots linger so richly? Or a peace hold for ever built on slaughter and a magician's trickery?

Kazuo Ishiguro

#39. Yes, we started out as the Sex Maggots, then became the Goo Goo Dolls, well, and we're still the Goo Goo Dolls!

John Rzeznik

#40. You maggots make me sick, I will be avenged. Lucifer dwells within us all.

Richard Ramirez

#41. At sunset, on the river ban, Krishna
Loved her for the last time and left ...
That night in her husband's arms, Radha felt
So dead that he asked, What is wrong,
Do you mind my kisses, love? And she said,
Not not at all, but thought, What is
It to the corpse if the maggots nip?

Kamala Suraiyya Das

#42. I think the world is a dead carcass and I think the purpose of human beings is as maggots ...

Alison Moyet

#43. The government favors the most diplomatic language. That's why any letter to them should always start with, "Dear turkeys and foul maggots ... "

Christopher Titus

#44. Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.

Jonathan Raban

#45. Iron turns red when it corrodes, and copper turns green. Meat turns to maggots, and thoughts turn to speech.

Stepan Chapman

#46. Nude is a word as smoooth as your hips ... but naked has the sound of a rock being turned over to expose maggots.

Grace Metalious

#47. His [Lord Peter's] long, amiable face looked as if it had generated spontaneously from his top hat, as white maggots breed from Gorgonzola.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#48. Leaking sacks of mutated maggots? He raises his perfectly arched eyebrow as though I'd just failed my verbal insult exam.

Susan Ee

#49. Sometimes, one trembling star comes in the clear sky and makes me think the world beautiful and we maggots deforming even the trees with our lusts.

Virginia Woolf

#50. Your worm is your only emperor for diet: we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots: your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table: that's the end.

William Shakespeare

#51. I mean, I may not hold the record in cleaning house either, but if I've got old milk cartons that smell like maggots I bundle them up and put them out."
"I'm on a disability pension'" he said. "I'm socially incompetent.

Stieg Larsson

#52. I'm not a fan of maggots. I could never do that I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here!

Pauline Quirke

#53. Clinging to each other won't save you maggots when the boot falls!

Gangrel

#54. I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.

Isak Dinesen

#55. Maggots squirming in your eyeholes ... and your other orifices, might be carrying things a bit too far."
"This is why I keep you around, Rixon. Always seeing things from the bright side.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#56. That's the way it goes. You can't deny it, men have a hard time doing all that's demanded of them: butterflies in their youth, maggots at the end. I

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#57. Mom has a massive sunflower for a soul so big there's hardly any room in her for organs. Jude and me have one soul between us that we have to share: a tree with its leaves on fire. And Dad has a plate of maggots for his.

Jandy Nelson