Animals Quote by Dylan Moran

My body gnaws at me from one side and my spirit gnaws at me from the other.

— Charles Bukowski

I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.

— Shirley Jackson

My fingers positively itched to drift at length along their spines, to arrive at one whose lure I could not pass, to pluck it…

— Kate Morton

I glance at the exit across the room. I want out. The bird in my chest is crashing up against its cage. I can…

— Han Nolan

It's a reflex. Hear a bell, get food. See an undead, throw a knife. Same thing, really.

— Ilona Andrews

The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise why would I go on doing it?

— Judi Dench

Whenever I sit with a bowl of soup before me, listening to the murmur that penetrates like the distant song of an insect, lost…

— Junichiro Tanizaki

I am building a nest in my body. A nest which I keep monster inside, no matter how repulsive they are, someday I will…

— Anonymous

As I stand over the insect crawling amid the pine needles on the forest floor, and endeavoring to conceal itself from my sight, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Let mystery have its place in you; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the plowshare of self-examination, but leave a…

— Henri-Frédéric Amiel

I don't like small birds. They hop around so merrily outside my window, looking so innocent. but I know that secretly, they're watching my…

— Anonymous

I'd always thought I would feel like an animal released from its cage when my student days were finished, I felt more like a…

— Michelle Moran