Quotes About Spiders

#1. Honest to God, all my life I have had such a fear of spiders. In fact, I use to have a reoccurring dream about one. Very clearly, it was black with a red head. It would sit up in the corner of the bedroom and when it started getting closer, I would wake up in a panic.

Tippi Hedren

#2. The world is well supplied with spiders whose male ancestors died after mating. The world is bereft of spiders whose would-be ancestors never mated in the first place.

Richard Dawkins

#3. Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

Anacharsis

#4. Let me sit in a flowerpot, The spiders won't notice. My heart is a stopped geranium.

Sylvia Plath

#5. A bare bulb swished from side to side. Dust floated in what little light it threw and cobwebs hung from the rafters. It smelled of spiders.

Louise Penny

#6. Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous quality, where the latter, like the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice.

Roger L'Estrange

#7. Spiders ... the spiders ... they want me to tap-dance. And I don't want to tap-dance!

J.K. Rowling

#8. Quentin Sollys: the Once and Future King of Spiders.

Seanan McGuire

#9. If anyone wanted ter find out some stuff, all they'd have ter do would be ter follow the spiders. That'd lead 'em right! That's all I'm sayin'.

J.K. Rowling

#10. Don't worry, spiders,
I keep house
casually.

Robert Hass

#11. Here's an interesting thing about L.A. - it's overrun with black widow spiders. I could find you one on the street in 10 minutes.

Dominic Monaghan

#12. Real-life things, like spiders and snakes, that doesn't scare me, but if it's a monster or a ghost or an alien, that will always scare me.

Claire Coffee

#13. Thus I, gone forth, as spiders do,
In spider's web a truth discerning,
Attach one silken strand to you
For my returning.

E.B. White

#14. Call it a personal foible. Some people are scared of spiders. I'm scared of immolation. Also spiders.

Mark Lawrence

#15. I'm petrified of spiders. I hate them. I sleep with a glass of water beside my bed every night. I woke up once to take a sip of water and almost swallowed a dead one floating in the glass.

Kyle Schmid

#16. Wolf-Spiders Ruleth the Land

David Foster Wallace

#17. Unlike New Zealand, which has nothing especially predatory, Australia is full of spiders and crocodiles and all kinds of animals that will eat you and sting you.

Brian Cox

#18. The chill, like scurrying spiders, worked deeper into him, weaving webs of ice in the hollows of his bones.

Dean Koontz

#19. I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

Voltaire

#20. I'm always worried about everything. Like spiders.

Taylor Swift

#21. Spiders so large they appear to be wearing the pelts of small mammals.

Dave Barry

#22. I remember when we were doing the first Dragon's Lair, I got really involved with coming up with all the little rooms and what was the danger in the room and going into it with bats and spiders and snakes.

Don Bluth

#23. My mother early on taught us to respect all animals, and I mean all animals - not just cats and dogs but rats and snakes and spiders and fish and wildlife, so I really grew up believing they are just like us and just as deserving of consideration.

Joanna Lumley

#24. Being veterinarians, we're not supposed to be afraid of any animals. And I'm afraid of spiders. They creep me out the way they move. They got hair and saliva. That's wrong. A bug shouldn't have hair on it.

Kevin Fitzgerald

#25. Spiders hate Athena, and Athena hates them right back. But spiders also hate humans, because Arachne never forgot her shame and her anger at being ridiculed.

Rick Riordan

#26. Though he found himself reluctant to be the direct cause of any actual killing. This wasn't Tolkien - these weren't orcs and trolls and giant spiders and whatever else, evil creatures that you were free to commit genocide on without any complicated moral ramifications.

Lev Grossman

#27. The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.

Francis Bacon

#28. What if life is just a cosmic joke, like spiders in your underwear.

Jimmy Buffett

#29. There could be talking bunny rabbits, spiders who write English messages in their webs, and for that matter, melancholy choo-choo trains. There could be, I suppose, but there aren't-so my theory doesn't have to explain them.

Daniel Dennett

#30. Did you know, and this is a fact here, did you know that most spiders are ugly? It's true. The woman spiders have it really hard time of it. I saw it on a documentary. Why do you think the Black Widow kills the guy she mates with? Shame, that's why - Tanith Low

Derek Landy

#31. Spider Jockey - spider jockeys are spiders that have a skeleton riding them. They rarely spawn, but if they do, unless you have a lot of arrows and a huge space, you need to run for your life.

Gerone Adams

#32. Bent down and plucked the fae's sword free of the fleshy mess that had once been his hand. Mental note: Don't mess with the spiders.

Pippa DaCosta

#33. You're a monster, Mr. Grinch.
Your heart's an empty hole.
Your brain is full of spiders,
You've got garlic in your soul.

Dr. Seuss

#34. Weaving spiders, come not here, Hence, you long legged spinners, hence! Beetles black, approach not here, worm nor snail, do no offense.

William Shakespeare

#35. Spiders evidently as surprised by the weather as the rest of us: their webs were still everywhere - little silken laundry lines with perfect snowflakes hung out in rows to dry.

Leslie Land

#36. I'd rather wake up to a blanket full of spiders than for my new roomie to catch me with an accidental hard-on.

G.L. Tomas

#37. I just imagine all the other runners are big spiders, and then I get super scared,

Usain Bolt

#38. Most spiders eat and remake their webs every night.

Alice Oswald

#39. I want a guy who can clean my gutters and kill my spiders - who's simple yet layered.

Kelli Garner

#40. We suddenly saw how people reacted in the event of massive social upheaval, and the way that the little problems in your life don't go away. You don't stop being frightened of spiders just because the world's blown up.

Simon Pegg

#41. When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.

E.B. White

#42. I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy.

Kary Mullis

#43. Ron: Why spiders? Why couldn't it be follow the butterflies?

J.K. Rowling

#44. A worthwhile day, I had killed two spiders, I had upset the balance of nature - now we would all be eaten up by the bugs and the flies.

Charles Bukowski

#45. Because I'm tryin' to push you away when all I want to do is hold you. I know you say you don't want a hero, but damn I'd like to be that guy who'll save you from spiders and whatever and whoever else hurts you.

Simone Elkeles

#46. I take my hat off to you - or I would, if I were not afraid of showering you in spiders.

J.K. Rowling

#47. A chill crawls up Miriam's spine. A parade of baby spiders.

Chuck Wendig

#48. But the things in the batteries couldn't be spiders. It just wasn't possible. There had to be another explanation. But of what kind?

A. Ashley Straker

#49. Do just-friends sleep all tangled up like a bunch of baby granddaddy long-legged spiders?

Carolyn Brown

#50. There was less than I'd expected in the rainy-day fund that Mom had kept in the bottom of an underwear drawer in a panty hose egg labeled 'DEAD SPIDERS.' As if I hadn't always known it was there. As if I wouldn't want to look at dead spiders.

Adam Rex

#51. It's kind of ridiculous, but I hate creepy crawlers. Like centipedes. It's just the fact that they have so many legs! I am not great with spiders either. That absolutely creeps me out.

Rose Leslie

#52. Is it scarier than Jocko's teddy bear being full of spiders waiting for bedtime so they can crawl in his ears when he sleeps and spin a web in his brain and turn him into a spider slave?

Dean Koontz

#53. I'm the breadwinner. I kill the spiders. Actually I don't kill them. I put them in a plastic bag and take them outside. I take out the trash cans. I change the light bulbs. I lug the 50 lbs. suitcases down the stairs.

Teri Hatcher

#54. As far as what I'm afraid of, I hate spiders. I'm pretty good at being not afraid of almost anything, except for spiders.

Josh Hutcherson

#55. Almost all spiders are rather nice-looking.

E.B. White

#56. After all the shit that went down with Calease, I hate sleeping the way some people hate airplanes. Or small, dark spaces. Or spiders. Or being on an airplane in a small, dark space filled with spiders.

Erica Cameron

#57. Be able to recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#58. The biggest thing I've learned is to smash my own spiders and get on with my day. There will be another!

Hoda Kotb

#59. I certainly wasn't the kind of kid that grew up collecting bugs and spiders.

Cheryl Hayashi

#60. I could keep going forever, listing all my flaws in order from the most innocuous to the least. I am afraid of spiders ... I fall in love too easily ... I have fierce spells of self-doubt.

Nina LaCour

#61. Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.

E.B. White

#62. I had no idea why a small swarm of spiders had decided to latch onto me, but as long as we were on friendly terms, I was happy to have them tag along.

Pippa DaCosta

#63. I don't like spiders; setting a trap is the art of low creatures! Who shall ever lay a trap shall be the meanest being on earth.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#64. Men, I say, but better to call them human spiders that go crawling in between and under the tables with rags in their hands, ..from the reader's choice about MK Gandhi and his works for the regeneration of human kind.

N.a.

#65. Between giant spiders and meeting Edmund Ellis did I have a chance, Ms Rainn?

S.A. Tawks

#66. Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders have spun their webs.

Henry Ward Beecher

#67. The beautiful are found in the edge of a room
crumpled into spiders and needles and silence
and we can never understand why they
left,they were so
beautiful.
they dont make it,
the beautiful die young
and leave the ugly to their ugly lives.

Charles Bukowski

#68. Babies are born with the instinct to speak, the way spiders are born with the instinct to spin webs. You don't need to train babies to speak; they just do. But reading is different.

Steven Pinker

#69. Most people do not know this, but hummingbirds also feed on small insects. Among the many insects that hummingbirds feed on, they especially like spiders, gnats, aphids, caterpillars, flies and mosquitoes. They are fairly aggressive hunters and insects can make up to 1/4 of their daily diet!

Susan G. Charles

#70. Having been once incarcerated and treated in ways he had not enjoyed, he had since tended to come down on the side of flies and to reject the claims of spiders.

Matthew Hughes

#71. Compared to the bugs and the spiders and flies, I am an apeman.

Ray Davies

#72. I, Brody, promise to love you, Lucy and Piper, just as much as I love your mommy. I promise to love you and protect you and always take care of you, no matter what. From this day forward, you will always and forever be my Twinkies. I also promise to always kill all the spiders.

Beth Ehemann

#73. I'm not a big fan of spiders, rats, especially if they're like - I got up one morning on a holiday recently, and there was a centipede in the bed that big. I wasn't very happy about that.

Tim Burton

#74. There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different.

Isabella Rossellini

#75. rather amazingly, an IAT developed for monkeys shows that they, too, exhibit implicit preferences for in-group members, associating good things like fruit with in-group members and bad things like spiders with out-group members.

Joshua Greene

#76. I'd drained our bank account, and there was less than I'd expected in the rainy-day fund that Mom had kept at the bottom of an underwear drawer in a panty hose egg labeled "DEAD SPIDERS." As if I hadn't always known it was there. As if I wouldn't have wanted to look at dead spiders. I

Adam Rex

#77. This crazy, blind beating of wings caused by man-made light ... this irrational connection between spiders, moths and light. If a law appeared without reason, like this, what would one believe in?

Kobo Abe

#78. Spiders' webs only have to be large enough to catch flies.

Neil Gaiman

#79. I hate to admit this, but I've never actually hit anyone. I don't even kill wasps or spiders. I'm pretty veggie as well. In fact, really, I'm New Age.

Richard Desmond

#80. Mona leaned over and picked it up. Inside were hairy spiders. She shook the bottle. No, it was empty.

Bryan Costales

#81. speckled spiders, indolent and fat with long security, swing idly to and fro in the vibration of the bells, and never loose their hold upon their thread-spun castles in the air,

Charles Dickens

#82. That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.

Diana Wynne Jones

#83. He hated mosquitoes. Spiders too, although he liked outer insects, found them fascinating. Like humans, in a way- stupid and sometimes vicious, blinded by need.

Lauren Oliver

#84. I don't share lots of the phobias that horror movies tap into. I don't mind spiders or snakes or darkness.

Helen Mirren

#85. Pull on a thread, and you pull on the whole web. And then out come the spiders ...

Frances Hardinge

#86. There's a lot to do when you're a kid - spiders to catch, girls to poke in the eye - stuff to be getting on with.

Alan Davies

#87. Harry took out his wand, murmured, "Lumos!" and a tiny light appeared at the end of it, just enough to let them watch the path for signs of spiders. "Good thinking," said Ron. "I'd light mine, too, but you know - it'd probably blow up or something. . . .

J.K. Rowling

#88. We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.

Laura Riding

#89. It's a commonly known fact that while cats can't stand ghosts, spiders love them.

Jonathan Stroud

#90. Well, they set spiders and snakes on me for a bit and blew me up and there was this really scary cake, but it's mostly all right now, I think. Except I don't ever want any more cake. Look!

Frances Hardinge

#91. How did you-"
Fool your guards? They're not very good, the forgot to check the ceiling for spiders."Valek grinned. His angular face softened.

Maria V. Snyder

#92. I suffer from arachnophobia. I don't mind the tiny spiders so much, it's the ones with their legs covered in thick hair.

Leona Lewis

#93. People say God only gives us as much as we can handle. I say, his holiness thought spiders were a good idea. Point me toward a different authority.

Julie Johnson

#94. Since someone ate crabs, others must have eaten spiders as well. However, they were not tasty. So afterwards, people stopped eating them. These people also deserve our heartfelt gratitude.

Lu Xun

#95. She did, however, make herself a promise. There were likely no spiders in the other girls' beds that evening, but Jocelyn resolved to remedy that as soon as possible.

Heidi Schulz

#96. I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.

Haley Joel Osment

#97. Cats, as any rational person knows, are solitary, opportunistic, ambush predators, much like spiders, but with fewer legs and a better fan club.

Jonathan L. Howard

#98. There are no more gates, only hinges clinging to the walls like broken spiders.

J. Anderson Coats

#99. People think that because of my act that I must have a really busy mind and I must be driven. I really am not. I quite like going outside and looking at spiders on a hedge in my garden and stuff.

Tim Vine

#100. Barking spiders!

Scott Westerfeld