Quote by R.L. Ullman

My body is sometimes this thing I look at and think, 'What strange, alien thing grew around my consciousness?' It's like this weird fungus…

— Rain Dove

“To know our true essence, we need to leave all of the energy of low vibrations out of our consciousness. We must withdraw all…

— Kenneth Schmitt

“Now as you plumb out into the universe and explore it astronomically, it gets very strange. You begin to see things in the depths…

— Alan Wilson Watts

“The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism..”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“And the bubbles of light again rose and fell, and in their disordered, irregular, turbulent maze, mingled with the wan moonlight. And now from…

— Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

“Instead it yanks on a worm wiggling in the loosened soil. Its feathers shimmer in the morning sunlight, a malignant green on black as…

— Sara Stark

“I know I sound a little crazy when I say that, but really, you get a glimpse of these bugs as they go about…

— wildbow

For every worm beneath the moon Draws different threads, and late and soon Spins, toiling out his own cocoon.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“It is we who are the parasites, and Earth the host”

— Carl Zimmer

“The train station—busy, swarming with people, luggage, porters, taxi drivers and limousine chauffeurs—a giant honeycomb, with worker bees flying in and out, carrying the…

— Henry Martin

The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a different body,…

— Nicole Brossard

We read at school about celestial bodies being up in the heavens and forget that we ourselves are living on a corpo celeste.

— Alice Rohrwacher