Stephen King Quotes

We're interested in things that have big teeth, and you can see the evolutionary value of that, and you can also see the practical consequences by watching 'Animal Planet.' You notice they make very few programs about gerbils. It's mostly about things that have big teeth.

If worms carried pistols, birds wouldn't eat 'em.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.

The strongest absorbs the weakest, and he has a right to do so.

Big fish eat little fish.

The wolf asketh not how many the sheep may be.

Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death.

Unlike your fish tank, in nature, fish eat each other. When the population of a species gets too low, it will die out.

Life eats life to live.

Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.

The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten. The law was: EAT OR BE EATEN. He did not formulate the law in clear, set terms and moralize about it. He did not even think the law; he merely lived the law without thinking about it at all.

Death by violence, death by cold, death by starvation - they are the normal endings of the stately creatures of the wilderness. The sentimentalists who prattle about the peaceful life of nature do not realize its utter mercilessness.

The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda-these are in the system, and our habits are like theirs.

The pike does not ask the frog's permission before dining.

This world belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak. We must face up to this. No more than right that it should be this way. We must learn to accept it as a law of the natural world. The rabbits accept their role in the ritual and recognize the wolf as the strong. In defense, the rabbit becomes sly and frightened and elusive and he digs holes and hides when the wolf is about. And he endures, he goes on. He knows his place. He most certainly doesn't challenge the wolf to combat. Now, would that be wise? Would it?

Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life.

I have seen Tasmanian devils battle over a carcass. I have seen lionesses crowding a kill, dingoes on the trail of a feral piglet, and adult croc thrashing its prey to pieces. But never, in all the animal world, have I witnessed anything to match the casual cruelty of the human being.

The strong were always eating the weak.

Weak dogs become bones for other, stronger dogs.

Some trees flourish, others die. Some cattle grow strong, others are taken by wolves. Some men are born rich enough and dumb enough to enjoy their lives. Ain't nothing fair. You know that.

Frogs eat Butterflies, Snakes eat Frogs, Hogs eat Snakes, Men eat Hogs.

The mice think they are right, but my cat eats them anyways. This is the point, reality is nothing, perception is everything.

Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult - at least I have found it so - than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind...We behold the face of nature bright with gladness...We do not see, or we forget, that the birds which are idly singing round us mostly live on insects and seeds, and are thus constantly destroying life.