Slime Quotes

“You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing is good; in the same way it's only in troublous times that you line your pockets.”
― Aristophanes, The Knights

“Inside, Howl was still sitting on the stool. He sat in an attitude of utter despair. And he was covered all over in thick green slime. There were horrendous, dramatic, violent quantities of green slime – oodles of it. It covered Howl completely. It draped his head and shoulders in sticky dollops, heaping on his knees and hands, trickling in glops down his legs and dripping off the stool in sticky strands. It was in oozing ponds and crawling pools over most of the floor. Long fingers of it had crept into the hearth. It smelled vile.

“Save me!” Calcifer cried in a hoarse whisper. He was down to two desperately flickering small flames. “This stuff is going to put me out!”

Sophie held up her skirt and marched as near Howl as she could get – which was not very near. “Stop it!” she said. “Stop it at once! You are behaving just like a baby!”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“I've had enough of these streets that sweat a cold, yellow slime, of hostile people, of crying myself to sleep every night. I've had enough of thinking, enough of remembering.”
― Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight

“i want to swim
in a lake because
it's what i'm
most afraid of.
slime and murk
on the bottom.
you push me
into the lake and
at first i am upset
but then i get it.”
― Jessie Knoles, Chasing Old Haunts

“Where did he come from? You'll love this. The word python was from the Greek pytho, which means rotting. The monster Python was born out of the festering, rotten slime left over from the great flood when Zeus drowned the world. Tasty!”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson's Greek Gods

“Will we fall into the abyss, or will we become Supermen and Superwomen, and finally Gods? The future of our souls is about to be decided. We can place ourselves on a divine trajectory, or sink back into the slime, defeated by our inability to overcome our feelings and our addictive stories. The choice, ladies and gentlemen, is yours. These are the highest possible stakes. The moment of decision has come. Enlightenment – or the slime.”
― Michael Faust

“We now know that the proverbial snail's pace is compelled to be so by pedal mucus, which is so powerfully adhesive – even when serving as a lubricant – that the creature is hard-pressed to free itself from the slime, and the slime in turn is difficult to remove from the ground.”
― Susanne Wedlich, Slime: A Natural History

“Acid Slime! This Kind of Slime Thrives on Bones. Horns, and Other Hard-to-Digest Meat by-Products. Then There's Scavenger Slime. They Devour Excrement and Garbage. There' also Cleaner Slime.and Secrete A Deodorant Solution that bith Cleanses and Neutralizes Odors. I've got Poison Slime too. Though the Number of Survivors was few. They Were Quicker to Split And Multiply Than Other Kinds of Slime. And Last but not Least... ...Due to The Surprise Monster Run-in Before. I Didn't Get A Chance to Rustle up Some More... Yikes! Not Many Green Caterpillars Left. It Was This Kind of Slime Whose Evolution I First Witnessed. I Find A Lot of These Green Caterpillars While I'M out Hunting, So I Feed Them To The Sticky Slimes.”
― Ranran, By the Grace of the Gods (Manga), Vol. 1

“But sometimes it feels as if we comfortable people are walking on a flowery meadow that is really a great quaking morass, and underneath there is black slime full of unimagined horrors. A photograph in the newspaper makes a crack and you see down. The War made a tremendous crack. It seemed then as if we were all to be drawn into the slime, as if cruelty had got its fangs into the heart of the world.”
― O. Douglas, Penny Plain