Parasitic Relationship Quotes

Are you eating it? Or is it eating you?

I knew Paris was using me, but I also didn't care; I was using her, too. I mean, I was a blogger who was hanging out with Paris Hilton.

Love is mutually feeding each other, not one living on another like a ghoul.

From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.

I am the outcast come home to roost and the eggs of tomorrow are incubating in my fame. You hate me, you love me, you made me, and now I am in you. I am like that disease brewing in your loins and I think you like it.

But I don't want to be a vampire drone.' Sophronia winced. 'They'll suck my blood and make me wear only the very latest fashions.

I think the more rational explanation is that the excision of a five-to-six-foot leech from the surface of a human body means that that body is going to have more of its own blood in its own veins. Unless the leech finds another body, it is going to go hungry.

Did vampirism encourage Stockholm syndrome?

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.

It is not really our country so much is the problem, it's sort of the parasitic relationship that Canada, and France, and other countries have towards us.

You are literally never alone. While there are roughly 6.7 billion people on Earth, you may not feel that many of them at all care very much about your existence. But within your colon alone are living at least 1012 billion organisms, or roughly a thousand times the number of people on the planet. Stop your metabolic processes, and you stop theirs.

With fame, you can't trust everybody. You can't depend on them being there for you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got and what you can bring to their life. It's not a relationship-it's a leech.

It almost felt like she was sucking it all out of me, like she sucked on that sticky red lollipop, the one she kept licking as she drove.

Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.

It will always be found that one flourishing institution exists and battens on another mouldering one. The Present itself is parasitic to this extent.

Why were my visitors so secretive, hiding themselves behind my consciousness. I could only conclude that they were using me and did not want me to know why...What if they were dangerous? Then I was terribly dangerous because I was playing a role in acclimatizing people to them.

Footballers wives are like leeches, feeding off their partners success. I don't want to be a footballer's wife.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

So shalt thou feed on Death, that feeds on men.

I feed off the fashion world like a parasite.

I sucked blood from one of my best friends

A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.

So, naturalists observe, a flea; Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum.

We, the artists, make the stuff they sell and they're like ticks on our backs, sucking the life out of us.