Octopus Quotes, Sayings, Captions
You’ll enjoy this list of octopus quotes, sayings, and captions—inspired by the unique and mysterious creature from the deep.
Best octopus quotes
Here are the best thoughts and words about the octopus (sometimes known as Kraken, the legendary sea monster).
1. Funny octopus quotes
Talking to that fool is like trying to put socks on an octopus!
James Agee
Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Dressing a baby is like putting an octopus into a string bag, making sure none of the arms hang out.
Chris Evans
There’s really not a difference between an octopus and, like, a giant pile of snot.
Mike Rowe
There can be nothing more frightening in a gigantic monster of many tentacles than intelligence.
A.E. Marling
I was in the Far East and I went into a restaurant and I ordered octopus and the waiter said: “It takes four hours.” I asked why and he said: “It keeps turning off the gas.”
Frank Carson
I got to try the bagpipes. It was like trying to blow an octopus.
James Galway
The most repulsive thing you could ever imagine is the inside of a camel’s mouth. That and watching a girl eat octopus or squid.
Marlon Brando
Now, I don’t know if you can appreciate this without actually knowing her, but getting Mrs. Stricker to laugh is like getting an octopus to stand up on two legs.
James Patterson
Cute octopus sayings
My mother would always say, ‘I’m not an Octopus, I can’t do eight things at once.’ Think about it. Octopuses can’t do eight things at once. Octopuses can’t breathe above water.
Craig Ferguson
Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!
Drew Barrymore
He had electric blue hair that had stuck around his head like tendrils of a startled octopus.
Cassandra Clare
Sometimes I pretend to be an octopus. But then people are like ‘Darren what’re you doing?’ And I just sit there and laugh because they’re not cool enough to be an octopus and I’m just like ‘Hah you’re just jealous because you’re not an octopus.’
Darren Criss
I smile to myself. I have a secret: I wish I was Dumbo the Octopus.
Ned Vizzini
2. Short octopus quotes
No one ever explained the octopuses.
Gail Carriger
Exaggeration is the octopus of the English language.
Matthew Pearl
Rock music sounds like an octopus making love to a bagpipe.
Brother Dave Gardner
Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?
Norton Juster
Ever since I was two, I’ve loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.
China Mieville
Octopuses are tough—and not just in the sense that they can take out sharks.
Katherine Harmon Courage
3. Inspirational sayings
And I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, there, deep within its own sphere of instinct, the octopus dreams of me.
N. Scott Momaday
Adopt the character of the twisting octopus, which takes on the appearance of the nearby rock. Now follow in this direction, now turn a different hue.
Theognis of Megara
It’s better to be an octopus than a fish. If an octopus loses a tentacle to a predator, the octopus will survive with seven tentacles left for itself.
Gene Simmons
When the narrator feels like an octopus, when he says his limbs are starting to multiply, he means he has inklings of orders of perception beyond his individual body.
Ben Lerner
Octopus intelligence
Mischief and craft are plainly seen to be characteristics of this creature.
Claudius Aelianus
The fact that three-fifths of an octopus’ neurons are not in their brain, but in their arms, suggests that each arm has a mind of its own.
Sy Montgomery
Octopuses have hundreds of suckers, each one equipped with its own ganglion with thousands of neurons. These ‘mini-brains’ are interconnected, making for a widely distributed nervous system. That is why a severed octopus arm may crawl on its own and even pick up food.
Frans de Waal
I believe that the totemic image for the future is the octopus. This is because the squids and octopi have perfected a form of communication that is both psychedelic and telepathic; a model for the human communications of the future.
Terence McKenna
Had a person attempted to taste me so soon after we met, I would have been alarmed; but since Athena was an octopus, I was thrilled. Although we couldn’t have been more different — I, a terrestrial vertebrate constrained by joints and bound to air; she, a marine mollusk with not a single bone, who breathed water — she was clearly as curious about me as I was about her.
Sy Montgomery
4. Kraken quotes
Release the Kraken!
Liam Neeson as Zeus, Clash of the Titans
What a Kraken grasps it does not lose, be it a longship or leviathan.
George R.R. Martin
Be not afraid of whirlpools,
of strong winds, and murky waves.
Fear the creature that dwells
in the darkest depths,
the ice-shackled Kraken,
that threatens to surface
and your soul to keep.
Erna Grcic, Beneath the Surface
When I look down into the abyss,
Down into the merciless blackness,
Colder and deeper than Hades itself,
There I see the Kraken rising.
Greig Beck
Careful! The kraken is wagging its tentacle, again.
Efrat Cybulkiewicz
5. Octopus tentacle quotes
The tentacles of today reach out like an octopus to swallow yesterday.
Gladys Taber
The monster of advertisement is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat.
Sarah Bernhardt
Any entity — no matter how many tentacles it has — has a soul.
Guy Consolmagno
In a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one’s position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge. The arms of consciousness reach out and grope, and the longer they are the better. Tentacles, not wings, are Apollo’s natural members.
Vladimir Nabokov
Worry is a weighty monster with poisoned tentacles. It clutches at us, grabs at our minds, steals our breath, our will. It lurks, it pounces, it colors how we perceive the world.
Mary E. DeMuth
I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see.
Dorothy Parker
This is the real tragedy of mankind, that until now the spirit of man has not been able to free itself, even along the path of its own development, from the tentacles of self-deception.
Phyllis Bottome
Income taxes are responsible for the transformation of the Federal government from one of limited powers into a vast leviathan whose tentacles reach into almost every aspect of American life.
Ron Paul
How did an allegedly free people spawn a vast, rampant cuttlefish of dominion with its tentacles in every orifice of the body politic?
P. J. O’Rourke
6. Octopus quotes about love
The way Emily describes it: when I meet someone I love, I become an octopus and wind my tentacles around their heart, tighter and tighter until they can’t deny they love me just the same.
Christina Lauren
Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.
William S. Burroughs
The octopuses I came to know were strong but gentle, and the suction of their suckers tasting my skin pulled me like an alien’s kiss.
Sy Montgomery
Did you know?
Scientists classify octopuses as invertebrates, or animals that lack bones or skeletons.
7. Octopus sayings about life
The family – that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.
Dodie Smith
At twenty life was like wrestling an octopus. Every moment mattered. At thirty it was a walk in the country. Most of the time your mind was somewhere else. By the time you got to seventy, it was probably like watching snooker on the telly.
Mark Haddon
Fashion is such an octopus. You’re connected to so many people: suppliers, pattern makers, production teams, marketing teams, vendors.
Raf Simons
The mind is its own enemy, that fights itself with the innumerable pliant and ineluctable arms of the octopus.
Rebecca West
If guilt was an animal then it would be an octopus. All slimy and wriggly with hundreds of arms that wrap around your insides and squeeze them tight.
Annabel Pitcher
But to ask pity of our body is like discoursing in front of an octopus, for which our words can have no more meaning than the sound of the tides, and with which we should be appalled to find ourselves condemned to live.
Marcel Proust
8. Famous octopus quotes
No animal is more savage.
Pliny the Elder
A fisherman knows where to look for an octopus.
Proverb
For the real menace of our republic is this invisible government which like a giant octopus, sprawls its slimy length over our city, state, and nation.
John Francis Hylan
From song lyrics
I’d like to be
Under the sea
In an octopus’s garden
In the shade.
The Beatles, “Octopus’s Garden”
From books & literature
Just as an octopus, when dragged up out of its lair, will have clusters of pebbles cling to its suckers, so pieces of skin were torn from his strong hands on the rocks as the great wave engulfed him.
Homer, Odyssey
If I say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature, I shall not be unfaithful to the spirit of the thing.
H.P. Lovecraft
When Mary is confused or perplexed, she spurts anger the way an octopus spurts ink, and hides in the dark cloud of it.
John Steinbeck
A monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind.
H.P. Lovecraft
He shouted to them, with the idea of driving them off, and, finding they did not budge, cast about him, picked up a big rounded lump of rock, and flung it at one. And then, slowly uncoiling their tentacles, they all began moving towards him — creeping at first deliberately, and making a soft purring sound to each other.
H.G. Wells
“The Soul of an Octopus” quotes
A lion is a mammal like us; an octopus is put together completely differently, with three hearts, a brain that wraps around its throat, and a covering of slime instead of hair. Even their blood is a different color from ours; it’s blue, because copper, not iron, carries its oxygen.
Sy Montgomery, The Soul of an Octopus
Here is an animal with venom like a snake, a beak like a parrot, and ink like an old-fashioned pen. It can weigh as much as a man and stretch as long as a car, yet it can pour its baggy, boneless body through an opening the size of an orange. It can change color and shape, and can taste with its skin. Most fascinating of all, I had read that octopuses are smart.
Sy Montgomery, The Soul of an Octopus
To share such a moment of deep tranquility with another being, especially one as different from us as the octopus, is a humbling privilege.
Sy Montgomery, The Soul of an Octopus
From movies & TV
A lot of people say an octopus is like an alien. But the strange thing is, as you get closer to them, you realize that we’re very similar in a lot of ways.
Craig Foster, My Octopus Teacher
9. Octopus captions for Instagram
Add a fun caption to your octopus photos and posts on Instagram and other social media sites!
- I could hug you eight times at once!
- You octopi my heart.
- Hug like an octopus.
- Friends come and go like waves of an ocean, but the true ones stick to your face like an octopus!
- You octopi my thoughts.
- I’m stuck on you!
- My spirit animal is an octopus.
- I’m inking of you.
- Sometimes I wish I was an octopus so I could slap eight people at once.
- Octopus power!
- I could hold you forever.
- Seas the day just like the octopus.
- I’ve got tentacles for you.
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By Greg Johnson | Published 11/18/2021
