cockroaches QUOTES

1 " We all live like cockroaches in the crevices of our imagination. "

2 " I leave the human cockroaches to discuss their heroin and child pornography. "

― Alan Moore , Watchmen

3 " Memory in the mind of man can adapt to the worst conditions.
I'll give you an example, an analogy of sorts: Each night I sop rags with beer and lay them out in careful strips. With rags soaked in beer I tease cockroaches from a crack in the baseboard. By morning they're good and drunk and I pop them into a baggy, then take them outside and throw the little buggers away. "

― Bob Thurber , Nothing But Trouble

4 " Yo Mama’s so poor, when I lit her house on fire, the cockroaches came out singing, “Clap your hands, stomp your feet, praise the Lord, we got some heat! "

― , 155 World's Funniest YO MAMA Jokes (World's Funniest Jokes)

5 " But, as I have said, the bugs had no interest in getting us…and no great curiosity or enthusiasm about us as such; from the cowardly cockroaches to the blind stolid ants they wanted only to be left alone to eat and breed and eat and breed, just like us. "

― William T. Vollmann , You Bright and Risen Angels

6 " The only thing that matters in the end is your own survival. It's what humans and cockroaches are best at. "

― Susan Ee , World After (Penryn & the End of Days, #2)

7 " All of us have secrets in our lives. We’re keepers or keptfrom, players or played. Secrets and cockroaches — that’s what will be left at the end of it all. "

― Maggie Stiefvater , The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, #2)

8 " Being mad at a drug addict for doing what drug addicts do, is like being mad at a shark for doing what sharks do, or being mad at a cockroach for doing what cockroaches do. "

― , Bad Choices Make Good Stories - The Heroin Scene in Fort Myers (How the Great American Opioid Epidemic of The 21st Century Began #2)

9 " When the demons start coming out— that's when you're nearing the light! It's hard for cockroaches to stay put without all the shadows. So in that case, keep on going! "

― C. JoyBell C.

10 " I dream of a small room and a man with one eye. Blood seeps like scarlet tears from his empty socket. I turn away and the room becomes a hallway that becomes a stairway that becomes a roof. The wind tugs at my body; the sky tries to wrap me in stars. Below me, a gazebo glows with red light. A line of black cars crawls like cockroaches through the streets. An air conditioner exhaust fan chitters angrily near the roof’s edge, one of its blades bent just enough to scrape against the side of the casing. For a second I let the wind push me close enough to the fan’s razor- sharp blades that a lock of my hair gets snipped and sent out into the night. As it twists and flutters toward the gazebo, I think about just letting go, letting the breeze carry my body into the whirling blades, the wind scattering pieces of me throughout the city. Blood and flesh seeping into the cracked pavement. Flowers blooming wherever I land. "

11 " You don’t live in luxury! You are relegated to sleep in the little store room behind the kitchen with the cockroaches and rats and are at the mercy of Mrs. Gupta,’ Reena was indignant. ‘It’s five-star accommodation compared to a mud hut. "

― Renita D'Silva , Monsoon Memories

12 " Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars. "

― Tama Janowitz , Slaves of New York