Beast Quotes - Page 11

• What kind of beast would turn its life into words?

  Adrienne Rich

  Kind, Turns

  Adrienne Rich (2013). “The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977”, p.27, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I know my head isn't screwed on straight. I want to leave, transfer, warp myself to another galaxy. I want to confess everything, hand over the guilt and mistake and anger to someone else. There is a beast in my gut, I can hear it scraping away at the inside of my ribs. Even if I dump the memory, it will stay with me, staining me. My closest is a good thing, a quiet place that helps me hold these thoughts inside my head where no one can hear them.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Memories, Mistake, Hands

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.51, Macmillan

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• Half-man, half-beast, all nightmare. The shapeshifter warrior form.

  Ilona Andrews

  Warrior, Men, Half

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.149, Penguin

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• Of course they're real people. They're Oompa-Loompas...Imported direct from Loompaland...And oh what a terrible country it is! Nothing but thick jungles infested by the most dangerous beasts in the world - hornswogglers and snozzwangers and those terrible wicked whangdoodles. A whangdoodle would eat ten Oompa-Loompas for breakfast and come galloping back for a second helping.

  Roald Dahl

  Country, Real, People

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• Sometimes she has imagined what it would be like to fly, to live in the river, to run like a horse. She has dreamed of that freedom, that power, and fears the wildness in herself that wants to live as beasts live, moved purely by need and desire. She has felt torn between the heat of her limbs and the thoughts in her mind telling her to be careful and good and always calm. Don't scream or cry, don't run to him and throw yourself at his feet, pleading for him to take you in his arms, don't strip off your clothes and run naked to the water, wild with wanting.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Running, Horse, Rivers

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• How absurd these words are, such as beast and beast of prey. One should not speak of animals in that way. They may be terrible sometimes, but they're much more right than men...They're never in any embarrassment. They always know what to do and how to behave themselves. They don't flatter and they don't intrude. They don't pretend. They are as they are, like stones or flowers or stars in the sky.

  Hermann Hesse

  Life, Stars, Flower

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• Besides, secretly, without knowing it herself, she had been waiting for a Beast to go to.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Knowing, Waiting

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• What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instinct of beasts.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Silly, Angel, Half

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1930). “The Stark Munro letters ; Danger! ; Other stories”

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• If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth.

  Chief Seattle

  Loneliness, Son, Animal

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• The beast attempts a beautific look that could be mistaken for a bout of painful wind.

  Libba Bray

  Wind, Looks, Painful

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• This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Time, Kings, Flower

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Aunt, Looks, Wrinkle In Time

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.98, Macmillan

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• I'm the Beast. You're the Beauty," he said. "It's all a story, isn't it?

  Margaret Mahy

  Stories, Said

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• I let the beast in too soon I don't know how to live without his hand on my throat. I fight him always and still. Oh, darling it's so sweet. You think you know how crazy, how crazy I am.

  Fiona Apple

  Sweet, Crazy, Fighting

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• I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray that finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him.

  Hermann Hesse

  Home, Joy, World

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.31, Macmillan

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• the beast is the monster that destroys your dream

  Walter Dean Myers

  Dream, Monsters, Your Dreams

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• The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.

  William Golding

  News, Horrible

  William Golding (1954). “Lord of the Flies”, p.206, Penguin

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• A new sickness invaded Jerry, the sickness of knowing what he had become, another animal, another beast, another violent person in a violent world, inflicting damage, not disturbing the universe but damaging it.

  Robert Cormier

  Animal, Knowing, World

  Robert Cormier (2013). “The Chocolate War”, p.254, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Lessons, Fairytale, Fairy Tale

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• I am the voice of the voiceless; Through me the dumb shall speak. Till the deaf world's ears be made to hear. The wrongs of the wordless weak. And I am my brothers keeper, And I will fight his fights; And speak the words for beast and bird. Till the world shall set things right.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Inspiring, Brother, Fighting

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “Voice Of The Voiceless”

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• There is a beast in man that should be exercised, not exorcised.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Men, Should, Satanist

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• Now I felt the long-forgotten urgency of lovemaking, when it seems one's human selves leave, to be replaced by hungry beasts bolting their food. Gone are the civilized beings who talk of manners and journeys and letters; in their places are two bodies straining to give birth to a burst of inhuman pleasure followed by a great, floating nothingness. An explosion of life followed by death - in this we live, and in this we foreshadow our own sweet deaths.

  Margaret George

  Sweet, Journey, Self

  Margaret George (2011). “The Memoirs of Cleopatra”, p.262, Pan Macmillan

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• The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Light, Oedipus

  "The Hero with a Thousand Faces". Book by Joseph Campbell, 1949.

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• He was so very large and so very gruff that he rather terrified her, but he always behaved correctly in public, and there was a lot to be said for a man who sported such well-tailored jackets---even if he did change into a ferocious beast once a month.

  Gail Carriger

  Men, Months, Said

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• She would only point out the salvation that was latent in his own soul, and in the soul of every man. Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.

  E. M. Forster

  Love, Passion, Men

  Howards End (1910) ch. 22 (the title-page also has "Only connect...")

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