Worms Quotes - Page 11

• God, to prevent all escape, hath sown the seeds of death in our very constitution and nature, so that we can as soon run from ourselves, as run from death. We need no feller to come with a hand of violence and hew us down; there is in the tree a worm, which grows out of its own substance, that will destroy it; so in us, those infirmities of nature that will bring us down to the dust.

  William Gurnall

  Death, Christian, Running

  William Gurnall (1865). “The Christian in Complete Armour: A Treatise of the Saints' War Against the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Helped on with His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapon, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War”, p.247

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• I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea urchins, gnats, whales, subhuman primates, superprimate humans, the lot. I can say this because we do not know what we are talking about: consciousness is so much a total mystery for our own species that we cannot begin to guess about its existence in others.

  Lewis Thomas

  Knowledge, Science, Talking

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• It's a mystery of parenthood that your son can give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a stray, worm-riddled dog, share a piece of re-chewed gum from a kid with bronchitis and pick his nose and eat it on a regular basis, yet won't sit next to his sister because of 'Girl Germs'.

  Kathy Lette

  Girl, Dog, Morning

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• Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Love, Religious, Compassion

  Isaac Bashevis Singer (1982). “The collected stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer”, Vintage

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• It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about and with worms crawling through the damp earth and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms so different from each other and dependent on each other and so complex a manner have all been produced by laws acting around us.

  Charles Darwin

  Nature, Law, Interesting

  Charles Darwin, James T. Costa (2009). “The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species”, p.489, Harvard University Press

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• My boy is a mean kid. I came home the other day and saw him taping worms to the sidewalk, he sits there and watches the birds get hernias. Well, only last Christmas I gave him a B-B gun and he gave me a sweatshirt with a bulls-eye on the back. I told my kids, "Someday, you'll have kids of your own." One of them said, "So will you."

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Home, Mean, Kids

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• Deep is the sea, and deep is hell, but pride mineth deeper; it is coiled as a poisonous worm about the foundations of the soul.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Pride, Sea, Soul

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1871). “Proverbial philosophy: in 4 ser., now first complete”, p.41

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• I saw my enemies in Munich, and they are worms.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Enemy, World

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• I would like to think that no one would die anymore
  if we all believed in daisies
  but the worms know better, don't they?
  They slide into the ear of a corpse
  and listen to his great sigh.

  Anne Sexton

  Thinking, Ears, Slides

  Anne Sexton (1974). “The death notebooks”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

  George MacDonald

  Friendship, Sweet, Money

  George MacDonald (2015). “THOMAS WINGFOLD, CURATE + PAUL FABER, SURGEON + THERE AND BACK - The Complete Series: The Curate's Awakening, The Lady's Confession & The Baron's Apprenticeship”, p.451, e-artnow

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• A worm tells summer better than the clock,
  The slug's a living calendar of days;
  What shall it tell me if a timeless insect
  Says the world wears away?

  Dylan Thomas

  Summer, Time, Slugs

  Dylan Thomas (2003). “Dylan Thomas Selected Poems, 1934-1952”, p.49, New Directions Publishing

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• The first time it happened I was ten.
  It was an accident.
  
  The second time I meant
  To last it out and not come back at all.
  I rocked shut
  
  As a seashell.
  They had to call and call
  And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls.
  
  Dying
  Is an art, like everything else.
  I do it exceptionally well.
  
  I do it so it feels like hell.
  I do it so it feels real.
  I guess you could say I've a call.

  Sylvia Plath

  Art, Real, Suicidal

  "Lady Lazarus" l. 43 (1963)

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• Late birds get worms while early birds get tired.

  Judith Viorst

  Tired, Bird, Late

  Judith Viorst (1976). “How Did I Get to Be 40 & Other Atrocities”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Errors, Way

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• Personally I am very fond of strawberries and cream, but I have found that for some strange reason, fish prefer worms. So when I went fishing, I didn’t think about what I wanted. I thought about what they wanted. I didn't bait the hook with strawberries and cream. Rather, I dangled a worm or grasshopper in front of the fish and said: "Wouldn't you like to have that?" Why not use the same common sense when fishing for people?

  Dale Carnegie

  Thinking, Fishing, People

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.36, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• We’re beings toward death, we’re … two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms.

  Cornel West

  Two, One Day, Delight

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• The heart is a place with worm holes made by feelings you aren't supposed to have but do.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Heart, Feelings, Holes

  Elizabeth Scott (2010). “Grace”, p.12, Penguin

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• Do something. Anything. You're alive, and you'll only be for a few decades, and then it's done. You'll be in the ground, worm food. Make something and don't let fear consume you.

  Gianfranco Zola

  Fear, Food, Done

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• Make them free, and they will quickly become wise and virtous, as men become more so; for the improvement must be mutual, or the injustice which one half of the human race are obliged to submit to, retorting on their oppressors, the virtue of men will be worm-eaten by the insect whom he keeps under his feet

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Wise, Men, Race

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2008). “A Vindication of the Rights of Women & a Vindication of the Rights of Men”, p.186, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.

  Thomas Harris

  Temptation, Approval, Critics

  Thomas Harris (1999). “Hannibal”

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• Light, Life and Love are like three glow-worms at thy feet: the whole universe of stars, the dewdrops on the grass whereon thou walkest!

  Aleister Crowley

  Stars, Life And Love, Light Life

  Aleister Crowley (2012). “The Best of the Equinox, Enochian Magic”, p.141, Weiser Books

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• What’s happened so far? Coyotes evolved limited powers of speech. Worms developed teeth and became aggressive and territorial. Snakes grew wings and developed a new form of metamorphosis. Some of us developed powers. So far there’s been a lot of strange, but not a lot of stupid. This, though, this”—she aimed her finger at the carcass of the monstrosity—“is just stupid.

  Michael Grant

  Stupid, Snakes, Wings

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• The tulip and the butterfly
  Appear in gayer coats than I:
  Let me be dressed fine as I will,
  Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.

  Isaac Watts

  Nature, Flower, Butterfly

  'Against Pride in Clothes' from 'Divine Songs for Children' (1715)

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• If the fall of man consists in the separation of god and the devil the serpent must have appeared out of the middle of the apple when Eve bit like the original worm in it, splitting it in half and sundering everything which was once one into a pair of opposites, so the world is Noah's ark on the sea of eternity containing all the endless pairs of things, irreconcilable and inseparable, and heat will always long for cold and the back for the front and smiles for tears and mutt for jeff and no for yes with the most unutterable nostalgia there is.

  Diane Arbus

  Fall, Men, Sea

  Diane Arbus (2003). “Diane Arbus: revelations”, Random House (NY)

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• You stupid jackass," Ian said. "Who's got the crush on a worm, bro? You gonna call me stupid?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Crush, Stupid, Bros

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “The Host”, p.307, Hachette UK

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