Human nature Quote by William T. Vollmann

“At times, feeling the wind on my brow, I went numb with horror. In my imagination I saw armies of ants and cockroaches calling…

— Jerzy Kosiński

“We're eatable ants.”

— H.G. Wells

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

— Emile Cioran

“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

“And real talk, like, seeing these ants and studying them and respecting them, it’s like, man, they’re in their own community too. They’re trying…

— Brandon McCartney

“We are ants on the carcass of the world, spawned out of nothing, going busily nowhere. One of us dies, the others crawl over…

— Morris L. West

“...the insects here see you as a big slab of animated but not very well defended food. The ability to move, far from being…

— Neal Stephenson

“It was the luckiest day of my life when those ants clogged up your fuel filter.” “Hm, maybe this was their plan all along,…

— Connie Bailey

“Dad smiles at me. I suddenly feel so stupid for giving up eating when I was thirteen. The ants say: Forget about it. We're…

— A.S. King

“Be respectful of the small insects, birds and animal people who accompany you. Ask their forgiveness for the harm we humans have brought down…

— Joy Harjo

“Still we live meanly like ants.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Ants, like human beings, can create civilizations without the use of reason.”

— Abbott Lawrence Lowell