Top 100 Spider's Web Quotes

#1. The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn't get mad. She weaves and repairs it.

Louise Bourgeois

Spider's Web Quotes #35854
#2. On more than one occasion David, in his urge to explore the darker corners of the bookshelves, had found himself wearing strands of spider silk in his face and hair, causing the web's creator to scuttle into a corner and crouch balefully, lost in thoughts of arachnoid revenge.

John Connolly

Spider's Web Quotes #37640
#3. Everything that surrounds us becomes part of us, it seeps into us with every experience of the flesh and of life and, like the web of a great Spider, binds us subtly to what is near, ensnares us in a fragile cradle of slow death, where we lie rocking in the wind.

Fernando Pessoa

Spider's Web Quotes #47816
#4. Nothing moved on the surface but faint coruscations of starlight, caught like fireflies in a spider's web.

Diana Gabaldon

Spider's Web Quotes #107841
#5. A SPIDER'S web is stronger than it looks. Although it is made of thin, delicate strands, the web is not easily broken. However, a web gets torn every day by the insects that kick around in it, and a spider must rebuild it when it gets full of holes.

E.B. White

Spider's Web Quotes #119765
#6. In the beginning, sin is like a thread of a spider's web. But in the end, it becomes like the cable of a ship.

Rabbi Akiva

Spider's Web Quotes #121069
#7. I clung to each word that fell from his lips like a spider to a web.

Dannika Dark

Spider's Web Quotes #126893
#8. In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.

Paul Eldridge

Spider's Web Quotes #140486
#9. To be well married you have to a penchant for the intricacies of intimacy and larval change..If the personality is a spider's web, you will want to know every thread ... Pleasures no longer come to you, but there are pickings to be had if you can learn to scavenge for them" ("The Body")

Hanif Kureishi

Spider's Web Quotes #149396
#10. Escape from the black widow spider is a miracle as great as art. what a web she can weave slowly drawing you to her she'll embrace you then when she's satisfied she'll kill you still in her embrace and suck the blood from you.

Charles Bukowski

Spider's Web Quotes #158966
#11. Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

Tryon Edwards

Spider's Web Quotes #171477
#12. His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.

John McCarthy

Spider's Web Quotes #179342
#13. German sailors sing a drunken song in the street, and a house spider over the stove spins a new web every night, and to Marie-Laure this is a double cruelty: that everything else keeps living, that the spinning earth does not pause for even an instant in its trip around the sun.

Anthony Doerr

Spider's Web Quotes #201341
#14. Pete wondered if the endings of things gathered in the corners of a room, hanging down like a spider's web, waiting.

Alice Hoffman

Spider's Web Quotes #202995
#15. The next time you see a spider web, please, pause and look a little closer. You'll be seeing one of the most high-performance materials known to man.

Cheryl Hayashi

Spider's Web Quotes #225491
#16. A spider had no special skill other than building its web, and no lifestyle choice other than sitting still. It would stay in one place waiting for its prey until, in the natural course of things, it shriveled up and died.

Haruki Murakami

Spider's Web Quotes #229189
#17. It was a vow we made those long years ago. Neither of us spoke of it afterwards, but it hung between us like a spider web, fragile and easy to break, but danged hard to get shed of once the threads took hold.

Cassie Dandridge Selleck

Spider's Web Quotes #233741
#18. But her life was as cold as an attic facing north; and boredom, like a silent spider, was weaving its web in the shadows, in every corner of her heart.

Gustave Flaubert

Spider's Web Quotes #238932
#19. He really did do something to me, and I was too busy falling for it to realize what it was. Good job on a beautiful web, spider.
Excerpt from Rise Above Twilight

Kayla Krantz

Spider's Web Quotes #244124
#20. A spider has no special skills other than building its web, and no lifestyle choice other than sitting still.

Haruki Murakami

Spider's Web Quotes #256123
#21. Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.

Virginia Woolf

Spider's Web Quotes #265725
#22. A falcon hovers at the edge of the sky.
Two gulls drift slowly up the river.
Vulnerable while they ride the wind,
they coast and glide with ease.
Dew is heavy on the grass below,
the spider's web is ready.
Heaven's ways include the human:
among a thousand sorrows, I stand alone.

Du Fu

Spider's Web Quotes #289564
#23. As a spider web of tingles skitters over my skin. I can't believe it. I've never felt this. Not even with Penny. I'm actually nervous to be with a woman.

K.A. Tucker

Spider's Web Quotes #309290
#24. Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.

John Dryden

Spider's Web Quotes #379941
#25. Teach them a spider does not spin a web. Spiders spin meaning. Cut one strand and the web holds. Cut many, the web falls. With the web's fall, so too falls the spider. Break the web. Break the spider. So breaks the circle of life.

Frederic M. Perrin

Spider's Web Quotes #398384
#26. How powerful social mores are! Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting.

Karl Kraus

Spider's Web Quotes #486126
#27. Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider's web?

E.B. White

Spider's Web Quotes #490370
#28. A story is like something you wind out of yourself. Like a spider, it is a web you weave, and you love your story like a child.

Katherine Anne Porter

Spider's Web Quotes #528044
#29. Here you've been, a spider in the corner, observing, weaving Charlotte's web of mystery.

Shannon Hale

Spider's Web Quotes #541817
#30. She'd spun a web around Maggie's son without his knowing it, without even perhaps her intention. Spider silk was stronger than chain if you happened to be a fly. There

Lisa Unger

Spider's Web Quotes #574844
#31. Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night.

Carl Sandburg

Spider's Web Quotes #578121
#32. Solving crimes is like following a spider web. Everything is connected in some way. It's just figuring out where things intersect so I can find the spider in the middle.

Lisa Kessler

Spider's Web Quotes #609739
#33. The great spider never worries itself chasing after its prey with all of its energy and strength. It only exerts its energy each morning to build its web in a magnificent way; relaxes in it and awaits its prey that will miss its path into the web

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Spider's Web Quotes #616621
#34. Of course she is. Because she's eight kinds of wonderful, and that's just her legs." Jeb furrows his brow. "What's that supposed to mean?" "Taelor has all the diplomacy of a black widow spider. Garnet's her birthstone. You're wearing her birthday on your lip. Talk about spinning you up in her web.

A.G. Howard

Spider's Web Quotes #621442
#35. Life was more difficult in Inkheart, yet it seemed to Meggie that with every new day Fenoglio's story was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider's web and enchantingly beautiful..

Cornelia Funke

Spider's Web Quotes #685984
#36. The spider dances her web without knowing there are flies that will get caught in it. The fly, dancing nonchalantly on a sunbeam gets caught without knowing what lies in store. But through both of them "It" dances. So, too, the archer hits the target without having aimed-more I cannot say.

Eugen Herrigel

Spider's Web Quotes #697071
#37. She was no longer in her body; she felt free. She was as small as drop of dew quivering on a spider's web; she was a minute in an hour in a day in a million years.

Malinda Lo

Spider's Web Quotes #698776
#38. I told my mother he looked like a deflated balloon. Greta said he looked like a small gray moth wrapped in a spider's web. That's because everything about Greta is more beautiful, even the way she says things.

Carol Rifka Brunt

Spider's Web Quotes #699370
#39. Like a spider web that you walk into, it is not so easy to get all the tendrils of real love off after you have passed through it.

Jonathan Carroll

Spider's Web Quotes #701595
#40. You can't get away, you can't escape. You'll jump through a plate-glass window several times and end up being right back in the spider's web.

Tobe Hooper

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#41. I'd worry about your chaperone. She's trapped, like a spider caught in a web."
"Spiders make webs," I said. "They don't get caught in them."
"I meant a fly," Stew growled.
"How in the world would a spider get caught in a fly?

Lemony Snicket

Spider's Web Quotes #754489
#42. This is a complicated web, Maria. We're tangled in it." "Then I suppose we'll continue to need a spider who can navigate the threads. You're the only person I can trust right now.

Nathan Edmondson

Spider's Web Quotes #759908
#43. Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

Henry James

Spider's Web Quotes #827948
#44. Apart from thought, there is no independent entity called "world." Just as the spider emits the thread (of the web) out of itself and then withdraws it, likewise, the mind projects the world out of itself and then withdraws it back into itself.

Ramana Maharshi

Spider's Web Quotes #839334
#45. I would want to have Spider-Man's web slinging abilities. I always thought it'd be cool to swing around the city jumping off of buildings and free diving.

Denzel Whitaker

Spider's Web Quotes #890787
#46. I pulled word after word from my core, like silk for a spider's web, spinning a make-believe life. That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones? - Minka (The Storyteller)

Jodi Picoult

Spider's Web Quotes #914658
#47. The post-Soviet mafia wove a spider's web of dirty money around the world. Where better to attack it than to start with the Ukrainian criminal heavyweights - the 'family' and its closest circle?

Yulia Tymoshenko

Spider's Web Quotes #932150
#48. Many & most moments go by with us hardly aware of their passage. But love & hate & fear cause time to snag you, to drag you down like a spider's web holding fast to a doomed fly's wings. And when you're caught like that you're aware of every moment & movement & nuance.

Walter Mosley

Spider's Web Quotes #941027
#49. A spider is slow, but its web catches the fastest flies.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Spider's Web Quotes #957669
#50. There is a patience of the wild
dogged, tireless, persistent as life itself
that holds motionless for endless hours the spider in its web, the snake in its coils, the panther in its ambuscade; this patience belongs peculiarly to life when it hunts its living food;

Jack London

Spider's Web Quotes #980264
#51. SPIDER PIG
SPIDER PIG
Does whatever a SPIDER PIG does
Can he swing
From a web
No he cant
He's a pig
Look ouut!
He is a SPIDER PIG!!

Hans Zimmer

Spider's Web Quotes #994169
#52. For her, life was as cold as an attic with a window looking to the north, and ennui, like a spider, was silently spinning its shadowy web in every cranny of her heart.

Gustave Flaubert

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#53. Like delicate lace, So the threads intertwine, Oh, gossamer web Of wond'rous design! Such beauty and grace Wild nature produces ... Ughh, look at the spider Suck out that bug's juices!

Bill Watterson

Spider's Web Quotes #1007345
#54. When a spider makes a beautiful web, the beauty comes out of the spider's nature. It's instinctive beauty. How much of the beauty of our own lives is about the beauty of being alive?

Joseph Campbell

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#55. The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

Pablo Picasso

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#56. Though the waves and the sea and the anger of princes are roused against me, they are less to me than a spider's web.

John Chrysostom

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#57. Parker sat for a long time on the ground in the alley behind the pool hall, examining his soul. He saw it as a spider web of facts and lies that was not at all important to him but which appeared to be necessary in spite of his opinion.

Flannery O'Connor

Spider's Web Quotes #1055505
#58. One of the strangest catastrophes that is in any history. A great king, with strong armies and mighty fleets, a great treasure and powerful allies, fell all at once, and his whole strength, like a spider's web, was ... irrecoverably broken at a touch.

Gilbert Burnet

Spider's Web Quotes #1073619
#59. 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

Spider's Web Quotes #1074404
#60. Sometimes it looks like I'm dancing, but it's just that I walked into a spider web.

Demetri Martin

Spider's Web Quotes #1096510
#61. Much like a subtle spider which doth sit
In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide;
If aught do touch the utmost thread of it,
She feels it instantly on every side.

Sir John Davies

Spider's Web Quotes #1111056
#62. I liked teaching Henry James. When you look down at a Henry James novel from a helicopter height, you find an intricate spider web that all clings together.

Helen Vendler

Spider's Web Quotes #1130943
#63. I am preprogrammed, acting on impulse, dumping a vast memory into a whirling pool and somehow bringing order to it. Building a complex web. I am the spider. This is my venomous bite. I will make them see their folly.

A.L. Davroe

Spider's Web Quotes #1132713
#64. The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

Edwin Way Teale

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#65. I stumbled through the dark underbrush again crying out as I plunged through a thick spiderweb. My arms frantically brushed away the clinging web as irrational fear made me batshit-crazy for a moment. Scared of a damn spider when a bloodthirsty demon was chasing me down. Ridiculous.

Jenn Bennett

Spider's Web Quotes #1191093
#66. She could feel magic in the quiet spring day, like a sorcerer's far-off voice, and lines of poetry floated over her mind as if they were strands of spider-web.

Stella Gibbons

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#67. Reza, in spite of the tears caught in his lashes like raindrops on a spider's web, did not cry.

Claire Messud

Spider's Web Quotes #1277938
#68. The greatest artist and web-designer ever is indeed a spider!

Munia Khan

Spider's Web Quotes #1291148
#69. 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

Spider's Web Quotes #1307558
#70. Fear is the most powerful adhesive we have. Fear unites, because if two people are afraid, then even as the authentic ties that may have once bound them disappear, the fear ties are as sticky as a spider's web.

Ramani Durvasula

Spider's Web Quotes #1312936
#71. For, like the wind, the sun, or the flowing river, like a soaring man-of-war or a beetle under a stone, like a spider at a web or a crab scuttling sideways across a shore, Nimrod was free.

Andrea Levy

Spider's Web Quotes #1320325
#72. So long as men are compassionate to such a degree that they cannot hear a fly struggling in a spider's web without emotion it can never be reasonably maintained that it is their natural impulse to wound and kill the dumb animals, or to butcher one another in what is called the field of honour.

John Newton

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#73. My faith
is a great weight
hung on a small wire,
as doth the spider
hang her baby on a thin web.

Anne Sexton

Spider's Web Quotes #1340570
#74. We belong to an age where apocalypse is our daily bread, coffee's black, and we know we're part of the abyss. Red Spider White Web is right on target in conveying that understanding. It splinters in the mind ... the underworld of the century's imaginings.

Brian Aldiss

Spider's Web Quotes #1343017
#75. "What's miraculous about a spider's web?" said Mrs. Arable. "I don't see why you say a web is a miracle
it's just a web."
"Ever try to spin one?" asked Mr. Dorian.

E.B. White

Spider's Web Quotes #1357259
#76. But we have received a sign, Edith - a mysterious sign. A miracle has happened on this farm ... in the middle of the web there were the words 'Some Pig' ... we have no ordinary pig."
"Well", said Mrs. Zuckerman, "it seems to me you're a little off. It seems to me we have no ordinary spider.

E.B. White

Spider's Web Quotes #1377996
#77. Health is the greatest of God's gifts, but we take it for granted; yet it hangs on a thread as fine as a spider's web and the tiniest thing can make it snap, leaving the strongest of us helpless in an instant.

Jennifer Worth

Spider's Web Quotes #1383357
#78. The pattern of our lives is essentially circular. We must be open to all points of the compass; husband, children, friends, home, community; stretched out, exposed, sensitive like a spider's web to each breeze that blows, to each call that comes.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Spider's Web Quotes #1396837
#79. The insecure people enjoy bad mouthing the others. They indulge in the continuous havoc and they tangle themselves in this spider web of plots and conflicts. I really wonder what it is about their inner life that make them so insecure. #Justmyobservation.

Euginia Herlihy

Spider's Web Quotes #1409640
#80. As the web issues out of the spider, As plants sprout from the earth, As hair grows from the body, even so, The sages say, this universe springs from, The deathless Self (the Supreme Soul), the source of life.

Eknath Easwaran

Spider's Web Quotes #1424400
#81. Have you no pity?' Glokta could only shrug. 'I did have. As a boy I was soft-hearted beyond the point of foolishness. I swear, I would cry at a fly caught in a spider's web.' He grimaced at a brutal spasm through his leg as he turned for the door. 'Constant pain has cured me of that.

Joe Abercrombie

Spider's Web Quotes #1424482
#82. Spider's Web * The Unexpected

Agatha Christie

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#83. This must be what a fly felt like when it was caught fast in a spider's web.

R.K. Lilley

Spider's Web Quotes #1444796
#84. People won't admit it, they're too busy grabbing to see that the lights have fused. They can't see the darkness and the spider-face beyond and the great web of it all. That there's always this if you scratch at the surface of happiness and goodness.
The black and the black and the black.

John Fowles

Spider's Web Quotes #1484172
#85. Her life was cold as a garret whose dormer window looks on the north, and ennui, the silent spider, was weaving its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.

Gustave Flaubert

Spider's Web Quotes #1515427
#86. Many & most moments go by with us hardly aware of their passage. But love & hate & fear cause time to snag you, to drag you down like a spider's web holding fast to a doomed fly's wings. And when you're caught like that you're aware of every moment & movement & nuance.

Walter Mosley

Spider's Web Quotes #1539418
#87. Experience unveils too late the snares laid for youth; it is the white frost which discovers the spider's web when the flies are no longer there to be caught.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Spider's Web Quotes #1542492
#88. Better to be a mouse behind the wainscoting, nibbling at the wires. Better to be a spider, high up under the eaves, spinning its web.

Stephen King

Spider's Web Quotes #1557596
#89. Pundits these days keep jabbering and hooting about the Internet being the greatest advancement. Web this, web that, and let the resident spider suck the life out of you.

Rabih Alameddine

Spider's Web Quotes #1587486
#90. The speech she made was done in the back, alone, like little shoes cobbled by an elf: spider is to web as weaver is to blank. That one was hers. She was proud of that. Also, blank is to heartache as forest is to bench. But

Lorrie Moore

Spider's Web Quotes #1587870
#91. Never were finer snares for womens' honesties
Than are devis'd in these days ; no spider's web's
Made of a daintier thread, than are now practis'd
To catch love's flesh-fly by the silver wing

Thomas Middleton

Spider's Web Quotes #1605877
#92. All that the spider needs to complete its web is step taking

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Spider's Web Quotes #1638039
#93. Ten thousand times the web could be destroyed, and ten thousand times the spider would rebuild it. There was neither annoyance nor despair, nor any delight, just as it had been for a billion years.

Liu Cixin

Spider's Web Quotes #1654844
#94. Now that I finally have the time for it, this web surfing stuff turns out to be as interesting and fun and addictive as you've all been telling me. Zipping from link to link, chasing an idea across the noosphere, sucking up information like a killer whale - way cool.

Spider Robinson

Spider's Web Quotes #1654939
#95. She looked up at her father. "I am bound so tight by oaths that I feel like a fly in a spider's web. All I can do is use every resource I have before the spider strikes.

Gwynn White

Spider's Web Quotes #1678309
#96. Is the destinyu of all who forget God;v so perishes the hope of the godless.w 14What they trust in is fragile1; what they rely on is a spider's web.

Anonymous

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#97. Like a spider web; the threads of her life had been woven since she was young, but she had no part in the loom's process.

Christine Clemetson

Spider's Web Quotes #1714322
#98. In Mexico, when we want to speak deep secrets, we drink pulgue together. It is a drink made from the cactus plant, and when you take the bottle from your mouth, it leaves a string behind, between the mouth and the bottle, like a spider's web. It shows that the truth sticks inside.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Spider's Web Quotes #1721920
#99. This history has for so long lived like a spider in my breast. The spider spins and spins, catching memories in its web, threatening to devour every final happiness. With this letter I hope to sweep away the terror and the sadness and to have my heart made pure again by God's grace.

Kathleen Kent

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#100. Spider's Web * The Unexpected Guest

Agatha Christie

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