Top 215 Spiders Quotes & Sayings

Compared to the bugs and the spiders and flies, I am an apeman.

I don't like spiders at all, but I love heights.

I grew up reading thrillers, science fiction, fantasy - you name it - and one day I asked myself if there was a reason why a fear of spiders was so common. Was there something buried deep in our evolutionary history that made being scared of spiders a survival instinct?

I'm always worried about everything. Like spiders.

Spiders - hate 'em.

The Spider is an ode to my mother. She was my best friend. Like a spider, my mother was a weaver. . . Like spiders, my mother was very clever. Spiders are friendly presences that eat mosquitoes. We know that mosquitoes spread diseases and are therefore unwanted. So, spiders are helpful and protective, just like my mother.

I'll fight a bear, but I don't like spiders. I'm not a fan of those.

It was no mean trick doing the wiring with those mittens on. But I managed it and crawled out, batting spiders into the shadows. I could hear a thud as they hit the floor joists, then a scuttling sound, then, worst of all, the silence of spiders.

Let me sit in a flowerpot, The spiders won't notice. My heart is a stopped geranium.

When you bring the light into your dark house, that is when you see the cobwebs and spiders

Cheryl and spiders: It kind of just goes together now.

There was less than I’d expected in the rainy-day fund that Mom had kept in the bottom of an underwear drawer in a panty hose egg labeled ‘DEAD SPIDERS.’ As if I hadn’t always known it was there. As if I wouldn’t want to look at dead spiders.

Spiders - the way they move freaks me out. It's so malevolent.

Their souls were contagious. ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them.

I want a guy who can clean my gutters and kill my spiders - who's simple yet layered.

Sophia and Grandmother sat down by the shore to discuss the matter further. It was a pretty day, and the sea was running a long, windless swell. It was on days just like this--dog days--that boats went sailing off all by themselves. Large, alien objects made their way in from sea, certain things sank and others rose, milk soured, and dragonflies danced in desperation. Lizards were not afraid. When the moon came up, red spiders mated on uninhabited skerries, where the rock became an unbroken carpet of tiny, ecstatic spiders.

Spiders' webs only have to be large enough to catch flies.

Most spiders eat and remake their webs every night.

My biggest phobia is spiders. When I was in second grade, one of my classmates got bitten. That did it for me.

The world is well supplied with spiders whose male ancestors died after mating. The world is bereft of spiders whose would-be ancestors never mated in the first place.

I'm petrified of spiders, I've just never liked them.

I do sometimes joke that I'm Tarzan and Ben's Jane when it comes to dealing with spiders or if there's dead things in the garden.

With all due respect to arachnophobes, I love spiders. Some might call me obsessed, but I've been studying spiders and spider silks for many years now and don't see an end in sight. There is simply too much to do.

I hate spiders; I'm terrified of spiders.

Like, 100 percent, I hate spiders. I thought I really liked them, and I learned that was just false. I really can't be around spiders. It scares me so much.

Spider venom comes in many forms. It can often take a long while to discover the full effects of the bite. Naturalists have pondered this for years: there are spiders whose bite can cause the place bitten to rot and to die, sometimes more than a year after it was bitten. As to why spiders do this, the answer is simple. It's because spiders think this is funny, and they don't want you ever to forget them.

If it weren't for men, this planet would be overrun with giant spiders.

Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making fly-traps, and men can't help making symbols. That's what the human brain is there for - the turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols.

What I'm attempting to do is to show people that if I can spend some time with very dangerous spiders and snakes and scorpions, then maybe they'll feel different about the spiders and snakes they find around their areas. I don't need people to keep them as pets. I just like them to be respectful and see that everything in nature has its place.

I'm not scared of snakes, spiders or heights. I have three children; as a mum, you can't be afraid of things like that.

I don't have a love for spiders.

I don't like big spiders in the house.

Spiders are always big in the autumn: they've had all summer to grow.

I’m really afraid of spiders and my own feelings.

I was a massive arachnophobe - I just hated spiders.

I just imagine all the other runners are big spiders, and then I get super scared.

Spiders so large they appear to be wearing the pelts of small mammals.

I always like jumping spiders. They're just so darn cute.

Braveness, for me, is running into my basement with no socks on. There are huge spiders down there!

Birds I am fine with - spiders are an entirely different matter.

I'm massively scared of spiders. Even small ones scare the life out of me.

I suffer from arachnophobia. I don't mind the tiny spiders so much, it's the ones with their legs covered in thick hair.

There's a lot to do when you're a kid - spiders to catch, girls to poke in the eye - stuff to be getting on with.

As far as what I'm afraid of, I hate spiders. I'm pretty good at being not afraid of almost anything, except for spiders.

You don't work with spiders very long before you start noticing how important silk is to their life and just how special that is for spiders.

Spiders frighten me. In response to the spider alerts for Australia, please can the Australian government remove all spiders from Australia and blow them into outer space.

Don't worry, spiders, I keep house casually.

I definitely have a fear of spiders. Don't we want to embrace our fears?

I take my hat off to you — or I would, if I were not afraid of showering you in spiders.

I saw the spiders marching through the air, Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day In latter August when the hay Came creaking to the barn. But where The wind is westerly, Where gnarled November makes the spiders fly Into the apparitions of the sky, They purpose nothing but their ease and die Urgently beating east to sunrise and the sea.

What if life is just a cosmic joke, like spiders in your underwear.

I'm delirious. Spots are crawling before my eyes." "Those are spiders.

I'm not a fan of spiders... I tend to avoid them as much as I can.

I'm not scared of spiders at all. I'm the spider killer in the house.

People who say, 'There's nothing to fear from spiders' have clearly never been to Australia.

I want to write about spiders. To me, this is the one theme that cuts right across and scares just about everybody. Spiders, to me, are just about the most horrible, awful things that I can think about. I think everyone is afraid of spiders.

If I'm around spiders, my fear isn't so much the spider, but my fear is that I'm somewhere rustic and that spiders are crawling around. I must be in the woods.

I'm not a fearful person, I have no phobias of rats, snakes, spiders, nothing. I'm lucky in that sense.

I'm absolutely terrified of spiders.

I certainly wasn't the kind of kid that grew up collecting bugs and spiders.