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Quotes About Insect

Time flies like an arrow . . . but fruit flies like a banana.
~ Douglas E. Richards
There was one insect which buzzed in a particular manner. Listen, said Mr Bain one day, that is most interesting. It is what we call the 'six o'clock beetle', because he always makes that noise at exactly six o'clock. But it is now quarter past four. Yes, that is what is so interesting. At one time and another in the country I heard the six o'clock beetle at every hour of the day and night.
~ Evelyn Waugh
When I was about 2 years old, I found a bee that had been stepped on on the foot path, and so I picked it up to rescue it, and it stung me on the hand. From that day forward, I've been terrified of bees.
~ Bindi Irwin
When he slept he did so dreamlessly, like a bug.
~ Lorrie Moore
Unspeakable King of the roads that are gone — Unintelligible Horse riding out of the graveyard — Sunset spread over Cordillera and insect — Gnarl Moth — Griever — Laugh with no mouth, Heart that never had flesh to die — Promise that was not made — Reliever, whose blood burns in a million animals wounded — O Mercy, Destroyer of the World, O Mercy, Creator of Breasted Illusions, O Mercy, cacophonous warmouthed doveling, Come
~ Allen Ginsberg
Akkora csúszómászó volt, hogy munkát vállalhatott volna egy terráriumban.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Life was simple when you were a Shield Bug.
~ Angie Sage
Nature's great mistake was to have been unable to confine herself to one "kingdom": juxtaposed with the vegetable, everything else seems inopportune, out of place. The sun should have sulked at the appearance of the first insect, and gone out altogether with the advent of the chimpanzee.
~ E.M. Cioran
The ladybug's a beetle. It's shaped like a pea. Its color is a bright red With lots of spots to see. Although the name is ladybug Some ladybugs are men. So why don't we say "gentleman bug" Every now and then?
~ Anonymous
Lovely little ladybug sent from heaven above please watch over my garden and fill it up with love.
~ Anonymous
I wish I was a glow worm, A glow worm's never glum. 'Cos how can you be grumpy When the sun shines out your bum!
~ Anonymous
Ladybug, ladybug, fly away home,Your house is on fire, and your children will burn.
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
You're beautiful, like a May fly.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The Duke said: "Paul, I'm doing a hateful thing, but I must." He stood beside the portable poison snooper that had been brought into the conference room for their breakfast. The thing's sensor arms hung limply over the table, reminding Paul of some weird insect newly dead. The Duke's
~ Frank Herbert
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
~ Franz Kafka
One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a monstrous bug…
~ Franz Kafka
Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheueren Ungeziefer verwandelt.
~ Franz Kafka
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position and was about to slide off completely. His numerous legs, which were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk, waved helplessly before his eyes.
~ Franz Kafka
His escape is ultimately doomed by his utter devotion to his family, which never diminishes. The guilt brought on by Gregor's newfound inability to provide for his family- financially and emotionally- prevents him from attaining any sort of liberation. Perhaps recognizing this conundrum, Gregor chooses to remain an insect.
~ Franz Kafka
One morning Gregor Samsa found himself, in bed, transformed into a monstrous vermin.
~ Franz Kafka
As I lie in bed I assume the shape of a big beetle, a stag beetle or a cockchafer, I think.
~ Franz Kafka
One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug. He
~ Franz Kafka
His numerous legs, pitifully thin in comparison to the rest of his circumference, flickered helplessly before his eyes.
~ Franz Kafka
the uh fucking spine quote from metamorphosis
~ Franz Kafka