Maggots Quotes

• I don't believe in evil; I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.

  Isak Dinesen

  Believe, Evil, Ants

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• Your worm is your only emperor for diet; we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots.

  William Shakespeare

  Hamlet Revenge, Fats, Worms

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1839). “Hamlet”, p.61

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• Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Sympathy, Patriotic

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.228, Xist Publishing

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• We are close to dead. There are faces and bodies like gorged maggots on the dance floor, on the highway, in the city, in the stadium; they are a host of chemical machines who swallow the product of chemical factories, aspirin, preservatives, stimulant, relaxant, and breathe out their chemical wastes into a polluted air. The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.

  Norman Mailer

  Night, Civilization, Cities

  Norman Mailer (1966). “Cannibals and Christians”, Dell, 1967

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• Lo and behold! God made this
  starry wold,
  The maggot and the mold; lo and
  behold!
  He taught the grass contentment
  blade by blade,
  The sanctity of sameness in a shade.

  Nathalia Crane

  Contentment, Shade, Taught

  "Markham v. Prodigy". TIME magazine, November 23, 1925.

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• You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Beauty, Beautiful, Unique

  "Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• I think the world is a dead carcass and I think the purpose of human beings is as maggots.

  Alison Moyet

  Thinking, Purpose, World

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• Movement turns dead dogs into maggots and daisies, and flour butter sugar an egg and a tablespoon of milk into Abernethy biscuits, and spermatozoa and ovaries into fishy little plants growing babyward if we take no care to stop them.

  Alasdair Gray

  Dog, Plants Growing, Eggs

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• A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Men, Sea

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 2, l. [29]

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• Once a maggot, always a maggot.

  Christy Carlson Romano

  "Fictional character: Cadet Captain Jennifer Stone". Cadet Kelly, Coming of age/Teen film, www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• Zombies smell worse than anything you can imagine if you haven’t been hunting things on the dark side of the world. It’s a ripe, gassy odour, like rotting eggs and meat gone bad, crawling blind with maggots. It’s road kill and decayed food and body odour all rolled into one package and tied up with puke.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Dark, Hunting, Eggs

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• She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Memories, Years, Tears

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• She hissed, right there behind my ear, and I had the horrible idea she was spitting maggots into my hair. Why maggots were a problem when I was about to be dead, I didn’t know, but the idea completely grossed me out. “In the womb I heard you die, for no one lives when a banshee cries.” I wasn’t just going to die. I was going to be rhymed to death. That simply wasn’t fair.

  C.E. Murphy

  Hair, Ideas, Ears

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• Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise,
  Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affection,
  Figures pedantical--these summer flies
  Have blown me full of maggot ostentation.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Three, Phrases

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. 407

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• Maggots squirming in your eyeholes...and your other orifices, might be carrying things a bit too far." "This is why I keep you around, Rixon. Always seeing things from the bright side.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Sides, Might, Seeing

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2009). “Hush, Hush”, p.242, Simon and Schuster

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• I am not so weak as to submit to the demands of the age when they go against my convictions. I spin a cocoon around myself; let others do the same. I shall leave it to time to show what will come of it: a brilliant butterfly or maggot.

  Caspar David Friedrich

  Butterfly, Age, Cocoons

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• It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots.

  Gene Weingarten

  Order, Sides, Steak

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• Speaking of dust, ‘out of which we came and to which we shall return,’ do you know that after we are dead our corpses are devoured by different kinds of worms according as we are fat or thin? In fat corpses one species of maggot is found, the rhizophagus, while thin corpses are patronized only by the phora. The latter is evidently the aristocrat, the fastidious gourmet which turns up its nose at a heavy meal of copious breasts and juicy at bellies. Just think, there is no perfect equality, even in the manner in which we feed the worms.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Thinking, Dust, Perfect

  Joris-Karl Huysmans (1972). “L…-bas (Down There).”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.

  Norman Mailer

  Night, Civilization, Long

  1966 Cannibals and Christians,'Introducing Our Argument'.

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• ... Rebel against the flesh and bone,
  The word of the blood, the wily skin,
  And the maggot no man can slay.

  Dylan Thomas

  Life, Men, Blood

  Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.68, New Directions Publishing

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• There are, broadly speaking, two types of drinkers. There is the man whom we all know, stupid, unimaginative, whose brain is bitten numbly by numb maggots; who walks generously with wide-spread, tentative legs, falls frequently in the gutter, and who sees, in the extremity of his ecstasy, blue mice and pink elephants.... The other type of drinker has imagination, vision. Even when most pleasantly jingled he walks straight and naturally, never staggers nor falls, and knows just where he is and what he is doing. It is not his body but his brain that is drunken.

  Jack London

  Stupid, Fall, Men

  "John Barleycorn" by Jack London, (Ch. II), 1913.

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• Nude is a word as smoooth as your hips ... but naked has the sound of a rock being turned over to expose maggots.

  Grace Metalious

  Rocks, Sound, Naked

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• The first thing I ask is that people should not make use of my name, and should not call themselves Lutherans but Christians. What is Luther? The teaching is not mine. Nor was I crucified for anyone...How did I, poor stinking bag of maggots that I am, come to the point where people call the children of Christ by my evil name?

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Children, Teaching

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• Here on the drawing board fingers and noses leak from the air brush maggots lie under if i should die before if i should die in the back room stacked up in smooth boxes like soapflakes or tunafish wait the undreamt of.

  Maxine Kumin

  Dream, Lying, Air

  Maxine Kumin (1970). “The nightmare factory”

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• The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully. Better you knuckle up and go for yours than have to bow your head and tuck your chain.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Men, Bully, World

  Ta-Nehisi Coates (2008). “The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood”, p.66, Spiegel & Grau

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