Quote by Eliezer Yudkowsky

“And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.”

— William Shakespeare

“He was looking me over in that weird, intense way he had, like I was a rare species of beetle and he was a…

— Eli Easton

“With an unseen inner-smile, the beetle carried on its journey, rolling manure. It had decided that stones were not to its liking. It was…

— Stephen Craig

“He was grateful, then, for his friends, and for how relatively little they had mined from him, how they had left him to himself,…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us theirs?”

— Emile Cioran

“[He] was an insect wandering in the cathedral his mind had become.”

— Vernor Vinge

“A few insect skeletons lay scattered on the narrow sill, shiny and precise and sad as broken jewelry.”

— Ed Park

“He had all the self-preservation instincts of a bug near a shiny windshield.”

— Karen Chance

“A Bird came down the Walk – He did not know I saw – He bit an Angleworm in halves And ate the fellow,…

— Emily Dickinson

“His gloom seeped through the house, oozing under doorways like some noxious gas, so that all of them became infected by it.”

— J.K. Rowling

“He then represented to himself the human species, as it really is, as a parcel of insects devouring one another on a little atom…

— Voltaire

“He was supposed to be turning a beetle into a button, but all he managed to do was give his beetle a lot of…

— J.K. Rowling