Insects Quotes

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Maybe we can comprehend a flower or an insect, but we can never comprehend ourselves. Even less can we expect to comprehend the universe. — Jostein Gaarder
For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection of luminous insects,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
There is a moon shaped rictus in the streetlamp's globe where a stone has gone and from this aperture there drifts down through the constant… — Cormac McCarthy
Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away. That is, running away in the heat of anger with a… — E L Konigsburg
I want to find a language that transforms language itself into steel for the spirit--a language to use against these sparkling insects, these jets. — Mahmoud Darwish
Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as… — Albert Einstein
Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult - at least I have found… — Charles Darwin
I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a hero nor an insect. And now I… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate… — Bernard Malamud
There had been a popular joke on Freedom, started by a man named Calder. Looking down from space, he had said, the dominant life forms… — Larry Niven
There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligenceâ€”or even in life. Both may be random accidental by-products of… — Arthur C. Clarke
I dreamt four nights ago of clock hands descending from the universe like rain, of the moon as a green eye, of mirrors and insects,… — Jonathan Safran Foer
However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a way - to use them in personal, arbitrary ways, so their… — Yukio Mishima
There are two things that I know for certain guys are good for: pushing swings and killing insects. — Carrie Fisher
The strain of constant adaptation to so many fearful events and discoveries is already too much to bear with sanity; one has to keep pretending… — Janet Frame
This man is the bee's knees, Arthur, he is the wasp's nipples. He is, I would go so far as to say, the entire set… — Douglas Adams
The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus — Cornelia Funke
Some people come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede -- not because they… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades,… — Simone de Beauvoir
Letâ€™s find someplace where there arenâ€™t any dead people, insects, or rodents. For that matter, someplace thatâ€™s big enough to accommodate both of us without… — Sherrilyn Kenyon

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