We Are Ants Quotes

#1. We are ants on the carcass of the world, spawned out of nothing, going busily nowhere. One of us dies, the others crawl over us to the pickings.

Morris L. West

#2. If we were bees, ants, or Lacedaemonian| warriors, to whom personal fear does not exist and cowardice is the most shameful thing in the world, warring would go on forever. But luckily we are only men - and cowards.

Erwin Schrodinger

#3. What does it matter, she thought, if businesses are left unattended, if people are not always as we want them to be; we need the time just to be human, to enjoy something like this: a boy chasing ants, a dry land drinking at last, birds in the the sky, a rainbow.

Alexander McCall Smith

#4. We think we're so important, that we are the keepers of the keys, but in reality, we're nothing more than children stumbling around in the dark, flicking switches and trampling on ants' nests just to see what might happen.

C.J. Waller

#5. Here indeed is a major difference between people and ants: where we send our young men to war, ants send their old ladies. No moral lesson there, unless you are looking for a less expensive form of elder care.

Edward O. Wilson

#6. In fact ants, to cite just one example, work unselfishly for the community; we humans sometimes do not look good by comparison. We are supposed to be higher beings, so we must act according to our higher selves.

Dalai Lama XIV

#7. It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

Henry David Thoreau

#8. That's the problem with memories: you can visit them, but you can't live in them.

Shaun David Hutchinson

#9. All we want, whether we are honeybees, salmon, trash-collecting ants, ponderosa pines, coyotes, human beings, or stars, is to love and be loved, to be accepted, cherished, and celebrated simply for being who we are. Is that so very difficult?

Derrick Jensen

#10. Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.

Shaun David Hutchinson

#11. I took two or three months and I came up with a reason that I thought was enough and I went with it: if there is a God he's definitely not benevolent. We should mean less to him than ants. And if there is a God or there are gods they would value, more than anything, free will.

Tarsem Singh

#12. The walls of this elevator are made of crystal so that you can watch the people on the ground floor shrink to ants as you shoot up into the air. It's exhilarating and I'm tempted to ask Effie Trinket if we can ride it again, but somehow that seems childish.

Suzanne Collins

#13. We are not created for any grander purpose than the ants that are there or the flies that are hovering around us or the mosquitoes that are sucking our blood.

U.G. Krishnamurti

#14. I've been on some fairways that are as good as the greens we putted on back then. We had crab grass. I remember one green where I putted through ants.

Sam Snead

#15. But why should I care what he's doing if I'm crazy about you?'
'We are allowed to have more than one feeling at once,' said Kenneth. 'We are human beings, not ants.

Jami Attenberg

#16. We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live.
The universe may forget us, but it doesn't matter. Because we are the ants, and we'll keep marching on.

Shaun David Hutchinson

#17. Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long dead and buried deep.

Shaun David Hutchinson

#18. Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.

E. O. Wilson

#19. Writing analogies are as abundant as ants at a picnic. We love nothing better than a good analogy, a "life-is-like-this" on the page. I breathe and out pops another analogy. As of this moment, I am sole owner of 1,643 analogies.

Chila Woychik

#20. We are all, generally, symmetrical: ants, elephants, lions, fish, flowers, leaves. But she was a tree. No one expects a tree to be symmetrical at all.

Aimee Bender

#21. We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

Gerald Brenan

#22. We are human beings, not ants.

Jami Attenberg

#23. There's an amazing world out there for you to discover, Henry Denton, but you have to be willing to discover yourself first.

Shaun David Hutchinson

#24. That's what we are now - just ants. Only - "
"Yes," I said.
"We're eatable ants.

H.G.Wells

#25. The time has come for us to admit our insignificance by making discoveries in the infinite unexplored cosmos. Only then shall we realize that we are nothing but ants in the vast state of the universe. And yet our future and our opportunities lie in the universe, where gods promised they would.

Erich Von Daniken

#26. It's just men and ants. There's the ants builds their cities,live their lives, have wars, revolutions, until men want them out of the way, and then they go out of the way. That's what we are now _ just ants.

H.G.Wells

#27. People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.

P. J. O'Rourke

#28. People in every direction
No words exchanged
No time to exchange
And all the little ants are marching
Red and black antennas waving
They all do it the same
We all do it the same way

Dave Matthews

#29. We remember the past, live in the present, and write the future.

Shaun David Hutchinson

#30. I imagine that she's looking at the stars and thinking about how small and insignificant we are down here. We're little ants on a pebble, hurtling through space.

Albert Borris

#31. Your entire sense of self-worth is predicated upon your belief that you matter, that you matter to the universe. But you don't. Because we are the ants.

Shaun David Hutchinson

#32. A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and aliens I'd never heard of.

Shaun David Hutchinson

#33. But if the ants are not despondent because they have failed to produce a new social invention or convention in 65 million years, why should we be discouraged because some of our institutions and castes have not been able to evolve a new idea in the past fifty centuries?

William Morton Wheeler

#34. It's not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?" - Henry David Thoreau

Brian P. Moran

#35. We're all like little ants who scurry around with the materials that are at hand right now. Each generation finds new materials. Its just evolution, isn't it?

Beth Orton