"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect." ― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
"The poets say some moths will do anything out of love for a flame [...] The moth takes off again, and we both step back, because he's circling at eye level now and seems to have lost rudder control, smacking into the wall on each round. He circles lower and lower, spinning around the candle in tighter revolutions, like a soap sud over an open drain. A few times he seems to touch the flame, but dances off unhurt. Then he ignites like a ball of hair, curling into an oily puff of fumes with a hiss. The candle flame flickers and dims for a moment, then burns as bright as before. Moth Smoke Lingers." ― Mohsin Hamid, Moth Smoke
"A stray fact: insects are not drawn to candle flames, they are drawn to the light on the far side of the flame, they go into the flame and sizzle to nothingness because they're so eager to get to the light on the other side." ― Michael Cunningham, By Nightfall
"Hip," I murmur, remembering last night, how I lost it completely in a stall at Nell's---my mouth foaming, all I could think about were insects, lots of insects, and running at pigeons, foaming at the mouth and running at pigeons." ― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
"I'll stop eating steak when you stop killing spiders." Absurdity: comparing cows to spiders. Arachnids are pure evil. They're like a cigarette manufacturer or a terrorist. They're organized religion on eight legs." ― Davey Havok, Pop Kids
"I've just been bitten on the neck by a vampire... mosquito. Does that mean that when the night comes I will rise and be annoying?" ― Vera Nazarian
"In summer the empire of insects spreads." ― Adam Zagajewski
"Despite its dark veins, the transparency of dragonfly's wings assures me of a pure, innocent world" ― Munia Khan
"It is amazing what a lot of insect life goes on under your nose when you have got it an inch from the earth. I suppose it goes on in any case, but if you are proceeding on your stomach, dragging your body along by your fingernails, entomology presents itself very forcibly as a thoroughly justified science." ― Beryl Markham, West with the Night
"Insects all business all the time." ― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
"Insect life was so loud that when you parked the car and got out it sounded as if you had suddenly tuned into a radio frequency from another planet." ― David Samuels
"I know that you are a mere flea! I know that you need only be squashed to be done away with! I know that I have fought this same battle a thousand thousand times before...but, perhaps this time I can crush you like the insect you are!" ― Marv Wolfman, Fantastic Four: In Search of Galactus
"Some big insect flew in and began walking on the table. I don't know what insect it was, but it was brown, shining, and rich in structures. In the city the big universal chain of insects gets thin, but where there's a leaf or two it'll be represented." ― Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March
"Organic foods are richer in nutrients. This means they improve satiety and naturally help regulate body weight…Plants produce antioxidants to protect themselves from pests like insects and to withstand harsh weather. When they're treated with chemicals such as pesticides, they don't need to produce as much of their own natural defenses, so the levels are lower." (p.203)" ― Cynthia Sass, Cinch! Conquer Cravings, Drop Pounds, and Lose Inches
"As far as we know, our planet is the only place in the universe where there is life. Many would say that we humans have a moral duty to rein in our dominance of the Earth and give our millions of fellow creatures a chance to live out their tiny, wonderful lives, too." ― Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects
"Teach your children that whenever a mosquito bites them or a fly lands on their food, they are only trying to feed and survive. This is the natural order of things in Life. There is nothing personal about it as there is no reason to freak out or to curse the insects." ― Omar Cherif
"Unlike at the top of the rubber tree, here on the ground things were less comfortable, infested with anthills, pests and tree parasites. Anthills appeared overnight, sculpting dark mounds on the wooden fence and the tree trunks. The task of destroying the anthills would always be left to me. It was quite a spectacle seeing these organised families going up in flames. What a pleasure I got from witnessing a whole hierarchy of insects turn to ash." ― Fábio Moon, Two Brothers
"...Bilgimiz arttıkça, birbirimize daha çok zarar verebileceğiz. İnsanoğulları eğer birbirlerine karşı duydukları garez dolayısıyla öfkelerine kapılıp da, böceklerin ve mikroorganizmaların yardımına başvurmaya kalkışırsa -ki, bir büyük savaş daha çıkarsa böyle yapacakları muhakkaktır- o savaşın biricik galibi olarak ayakta sadece böceklerin kalması hiç de olanak dışı değildir. Kosmos açısından bakıldığında belki de buna üzülmemek gerekir; ama bir insan olarak, hemcinslerim hesabına göğüs ge- çirmekten kendimi alamıyorum..." ― Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
"Bees make honey while the sun shines." ― Anthony T. Hincks
"However, there is now a sizable body of experimental work documenting flexible learning capabilities in insects that, in some cases, rival those found in mammals and birds. These cognitive abilities range from conditional discrimination and concept formation to spatial cognition, planning, causal reasoning, and social learning. Indeed, a review of the insect cognition literature leaves one with the impression that bees are likely to outperform birds and mammals on many quintessential cognitive tasks, such as matching-to-sample discriminations and the cross-modal transfer of learned concepts - often necessitating fewer trails for success than is necessary to train up similar abilities in mammals (including primates!)." ― Russell Powell, Contingency and Convergence: Toward a Cosmic Biology of Body and Mind
"Dead and distressed flying insects are the early warning sign that something is wrong with environmental radiation." ― Steven Magee
"I Once Was A Bee by Stewart Stafford
I once was a bee, All striped and dorky, I got crushed underfoot, By Amber Heard's Yorkie.
It mashed my wings, I never sought money, Even when it made me, Poop out some honey.
As I flew to Bee Heaven, In a mystical fog, She made such a fuss, Of that murdering dog.
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