Cockroach Quotes

“Before he had time to figure it out, his walkie-talkie crackled and a voice came on. He punched a button. "Sheriff here. What's up?"
"Someone called about a public disturbance behind schmitty's bar," a woman's voice reported. "Cathy use the proper code number," Billy growled. "There ain't no number for a guy acting like a cockroach!" the woman yelled. "he climbed into their Dumpster and he's wallowing in the trash.”
― Kerrelyn Sparks, The Undead Next Door

“A beetle will chase after an opening of light, while a cockroach will scatter at a crack of it. How are we different from insects? Nobody is purely good or purely evil. Most of us are in-between. There are moths that explore the day and butterflies that play at night. Polarity is an integral part of nature — human or not human.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“A god who gave us everything we wanted would be the most malevolent god of all. With an infantile curiosity, we insist on tasting the cockroach on the floor while our father is preparing a magnificent feast for us.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“You never feel good when you lie. It doesn't matter how much you want something, if you lie to somebody you love, and they actually, sincerely believe you, you feel like a cockroach that needs some serious Raid action.”
― Randa Abdel-Fattah

“If cock is male and hen is female, then the female of cockroach is ‘henroach’. Are you with me?”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“But in vain did he apostrophize the insect in this new language, born of sudden inspiration, as a cockroach's understanding is not equal to such a tirade: the insect continued on its journey to a corner of the room, with movements sanctified by an ageless ritual of the cockroach world.”
― Bruno Schulz, The Street of Crocodiles

“Even a cockroach can be legendary by being killed by a legend.”
― Munia Khan

“If cock is male and hen is female, then the female of cock-roach is ‘henroach’. Are you with me?”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu

“The only cases where cockroach can be innocent are either a stair-case or a suit-case because no court has the jurisdiction to try such cases. If on the contrary, the cockroach gets involved in a court case where the judge is a chicken, he is finished no matter how innocently he plays.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“The cockroach is dead on approach for encroaching upon the rights of a cock by prefixing roach with cock. That is why cocks are always after roaches to mete out punishment.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“Thinking is good. It's what separates humans from cockroaches.”
― Jessica Brockmole, Letters from Skye

“The lamp, in which the kerosene was getting low, was smoking and smelling. A stray cockroach was running about the table in alarm near Nevyrazimov's writing hand. [. . .] On the ceiling he saw a dark circle—the shadow of the lamp-shade. Below it was the dusty cornice, and lower still the wall, which had once been painted a bluish muddy color. And the office seemed to him such a place of desolation that he felt sorry, not only for himself, but even for the cockroach.”
― Anton Chekhov