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Quotes About Excretion

the fact that the fabulously beautiful planet Bethselamin is now so worried about the cumulative erosion by ten billion visiting tourists a year that any net imbalance between the amount you eat and the amount you excrete whilst on the planet is surgically removed from your bodyweight when you leave: so every time you go to the lavatory there it is vitally important to get a receipt.) To
~ Douglas Adams
Most men are of naught more use in their lives but as machines for turning food into sh*t.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Nicardipine is metabolized by the liver, and excretion can be impaired in patients with abnormal hepatic function.
~ Jean-Louis Vincent
We live, he says, in a creation in which the routine activity for organisms is "tearing others apart with teeth of all types—biting, grinding flesh, plant stalks, bones between molars, pushing the pulp greedily down the gullet with delight, incorporating its essence into one's own organization, and then excreting with foul stench and gasses the residue.
~ Ernest Becker
Excretion is his first concrete production and, through it, the child gains his first experience of labour relations. He may reserve the right to go on excremental strike or to engage in a form of faecal offensive. The excremental faculty is a manipulative device and to be baulked of the free control of it is to be deprived of the first, most elementary, expression of autonomy.
~ Angela Carter
The more you eat, the more you poop.
~ doofus
All us humans are fouled on both ends. One we shit out of, and the other we talk shit out of.
~ Joe R. Lansdale
Urine and feces are processed in the thigh pads
~ Frank Herbert
did just that but felt no better. The toxin carried by the fish was heat resistant, I was to learn, and more boiling or baking could not neutralize it. As it was explained to me later in Boston, the cigua toxin was quickly excreted by the body but not before it had radically damaged the nervous system. Very much like Ravelstein's Guillain-Barré syndrome. Among the first symptoms is a sudden distaste for food. I even disliked the look of it. I came to loathe all food odors.
~ Saul Bellow
Last time I had three or four of those I crapped for three days straight!
~ Stone Cold Steve Austin
Being on the toilet stool is the grossest thing there is, to me.
~ John Witherspoon
May they all be stricken with the screaming fire-shits." He sipped his
~ Scott Lynch
What physicians call perspirable matter is that vapour which passes off from our bodies, from the lungs, and through the pores of the skin. The quantity of this is said to be five eighths of what we eat.—Author.
~ Benjamin Franklin
administration of medications more frequently than the elimination half-life leads to drug accumulation, medications such as diazepam and flurazepam accumulate with daily dosing, eventually resulting in increased daytime sedation. Some benzodiazepines (e.g., oxazepam) are conjugated directly by glucuronidation and are excreted.
~ Benjamin James Sadock
Like many toilets in Goa, it was nothing more than a smooth, steep slope behind the squatting keyhole. Waste matter rolled down the slope to a narrow lane. Wild, hairy, black Goan pigs roamed the lanes, eating the waste.
~ Gregory David Roberts
It is a real puzzle for the science of mind why, when an unpleasant event befalls us—we slice our thumb along with the bagel, or knock a glass of beer into our lap—the topic of our conversation turns abruptly to sexuality, excretion, or religion.
~ Steven Pinker
People were so naive about plants, Ellie thought. They just chose plants for appearance, as they would choose a picture for the wall. It never occurred to them that plants were actually living things, busily performing all the living functions of respiration, ingestion, excretion, reproduction---and defense.
~ Michael Crichton
Each parasaur produced a large mound of straw-colored spoor. This was accompanied by low trumpeting from each animal in the herd—along with an enormous quantity of expelled flatus, redolent of methane.
~ Michael Crichton
You discard about a hundred billion red blood cells every day. They are a big component of what makes your stools brown.
~ Bill Bryson
Adults in the West produce about 200 grams of feces a day—a little under half a pound, about 180 pounds a year, 14,000 pounds in a lifetime.
~ Bill Bryson
a one hump camel makes a one hump poop, and a two hump camel makes a two hump poop
~ Taro Gomi
complex organisms the head, or anterior pole of the body, is the part that processes information, the posterior pole the part that engages in sexual reproduction and excretion of waste. From that orientation plants live with their heads in the Earth, their asses in the air. We love the smell, usually, of their reproductive organs and pick them to give to our beloveds (a highly suggestive though unconscious act).
~ Stephen Harrod Buhner
Sex and excretion are reminders that anyone's claim to round-the-clock dignity is tenuous. The so-called rational animal has a desperate drive to pair up and moan and writhe.
~ Steven Pinker
Fear had an anatomy. A curious thought. It had genitals, a bladder and bowls. That was where you felt fear. Not in your head. It was between your legs. It affected your excretion. It emptied you. It turned your bowls to water. It is disgusting.
~ Stuart Cloete