Death Quote by Kathleen Kent

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

— William Shakespeare

“that they were no different than the beetle or the rat. Their arrogance would not survive his determination. He noticed that his hands were…

— Patricia Forde

“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

“You see, in all his travels through the fallen ruins of civilizations, he picked up this notion that mankind is insignificant. That nothing we…

— Matthew J. Kirby

“You can’t negotiate with a beetle. You are now dealing with natural law. And if you don’t understand natural law, you will soon.”

— Mary Christina Wood

“Why must we die when everything within us was born to live?”

— Libba Bray

“He had enough troubles, he thought, without inventing new ones for the future. He was middling lost, starving, and with an excellent chance of…

— George Alec Effinger

“To me it was plain silly. It is so obvious that life works in terms of species rather than individuals. The individual just has…

— Diana Athill

“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

“But the truth is we’re just humans. We’re just animals. And when we die, we become food for the earth and the bugs. The…

— Kandi Steiner

“A worthwhile day, I had killed two spiders, I had upset the balance of nature - now we would all be eaten up by…

— Charles Bukowski

“It was a true conversation. About whether our ancestors had more important lives than we do. And how they've managed to trick us, if…

— Barbara Kingsolver