Creatures Quotes - Page 13

• You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.

  Zadie Smith

  Live Life, Action, Consequence

  Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.86, Vintage

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• The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared to a star, we are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their lives in the course of a single day.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Fleeting, Ephemeral

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.241, Ballantine Books

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• Because like all whores you value propriety. You are creature of capitalism, the ethics of which are so totally corrupt and hypocritical that your beauty is no more than the beauty of gold, which is to say false and cold and useless.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Gold, Useless, Ethics

  E.L. Doctorow (2013). “Ragtime, The March, and Homer & Langley: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.59, Random House

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• I expected this reception. All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us. You purpose to kill me. How dare you sport thus with life? Do your duty towards me, and I will do mine towards you and the rest of mankind. If you will comply with my conditions, I will leave them and you at peace; but if you refuse, I will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Sports, Art, Hate

  Frankenstein ch. 10 (1818)

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• It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Character, Wish, May

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• It is what is left to him," said Will. "Do you not recall what he says to Lucie? 'If it had been possible... that you could have returned the love of the man you see before yourself- flung away, wasted, drunken, poor creature of misure as you know him to be- he would have been conscious this day and hour, in spite of his happiness, that he would bring you misery, bring you to sorrow and repetance, blight you, disgrace you, pull you down with him

  Cassandra Clare

  Men, Sorrow, Misery

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Prince”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• Like most qualities, cuteness is delineated by what it isn't. Most people aren't cute at all, or if so they quickly outgrow their cuteness ... Elegance, grace, delicacy, beauty, and a lack of self-consciousness: a creature who knows he is cute soon isn't.

  William S. Burroughs

  Cute, Cat, Self

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• Hello, darling. Sorry about that. Sorry about the bony elbows, sorry we lived here, sorry about the scene at the bottom of the stairwell and how I ruined everything by saying it out loud. Especially that, but I should have known. You see, I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together to make a creature that will do what I say or love me back.

  Richard Siken

  Sorry, Should Have, Together

  Richard Siken, “Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out”

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• The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment. Thus a man easily comes to console himself for all his other vices by a conviction that 'his heart's in the right place' and 'he wouldn't hurt a fly,' though in fact he has never made the slightest sacrifice for a fellow creature. We think we are kind when we are only happy: it is not so easy, on the same grounds, to imagine oneself temperate, chaste, or humble.

  C. S. Lewis

  Hurt, Kindness, Real

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• This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.

  Joseph Stalin

  Heart, Feelings, Humanity

  "Young Stalin" by Simon Sebag Montefiore, (p. 193), 2007.

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• Jason glanced at the creature. It remained the same distance away as before, still as a statue. "What do you want?" Jason asked. No answer. "Are you the thing that followed Tark? You should keep following him. He's the real mastermind. Shoo. Go hide." No response. "Okay, how about you stand guard while I sleep. Keep the giants away. Sound good? All in favor, hold perfectly still. Fine, I guess we have a deal.

  Brandon Mull

  Distance, Real, Sleep

  Brandon Mull (2013). “Brandon Mull's Beyonders Trilogy: A World Without Heroes; Seeds of Rebellion; Chasing the Prophecy”, p.470, Simon and Schuster

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• Love is self deception. I am a living creature. Hate is only self love. I am a double feature.

  Henry Rollins

  Hate, Love Is, Self

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• Mind control won't work on those who are really hardheaded. You know… Creatures like you.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mind, Like You, Knows

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2012). “Infamous: Chronicles of Nick”, p.26, Macmillan

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• A faint light burned in the pit revealing a furry creature hunched over a stone slab, fiddling with something. At first Gregor raised a warning hand. He thought it was a rat. Then the creature lifted his head and Gregor recognized what was left of his dad.

  Suzanne Collins

  Dad, Light, Hands

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “Gregor the Overlander Collection:”, p.154, Scholastic Inc.

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• I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were...miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of something to hurt. And then there were people like my parents, who walked around zombically, doing whatever they had to do to keep walking around.

  John Green

  Hurt, Real, Thinking

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• Flawed, imperfect creatures! That's what we both are, oga! That's what we ALL are!

  Nnedi Okorafor

  Imperfect, Flawed

  Nnedi Okorafor (2011). “Who Fears Death”, p.119, Penguin

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• I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once.

  George R. R. Martin

  Song, Laughter, Grief

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1284, Bantam

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• Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd

  Albert Camus

  Trying, Absurd, Existence

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• For outlandish creatures like us, on our way to a heart, a brain, and courage, Bethlehem is not the end of our journey but only the beginning - not home but the place through which we must pass if ever we are to reach home at last.

  Frederick Buechner

  Christmas, Home, Heart

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• Yeah,I know you're a creature of the night.Bringer of death,sucker of blood, needer of tans,so on and so forth. And oddly enough,I'm still unimpressed." He narrowed his eyes. "How do you know what I am,child?" What is it with paranormals and calling me "child?" I'd be seventeen in Decemder. How about a nice "ma'am" or something?

  Kiersten White

  Children, Nice, Eye

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• The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who—in their grudge against traditional religion as the "opium of the masses"—cannot hear the music of the spheres.

  Albert Einstein

  Atheist, Struggle, Feelings

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• The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances. Fifty degrees below zero meant eighty-odd degrees of frost. Such fact impressed him as being cold and uncomfortable, and that was all. It did not lead him to meditate upon his frailty as a creature of temperature, and upon man's frailty in general, able only to live within certain narrow limits of heat and cold; and from there on it did not lead him to the conjectural field of immortality and man's place in the universe.

  Jack London

  Zero, Men, Imagination

  Jack London (2008). “To Build a Fire”, p.6, The Creative Company

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• So this is what I am Pondering his eyes that could not Conceive that I was a creature to run from I who have always believed too much in words

  W. S. Merwin

  Running, Eye, Too Much

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• There's a Drunk Midget in My House Ah, babies! They're more than just adorable little creatures on whom you can blame your farts. Like most people who have had one baby, I am an expert on everythiing and will tell you, unsolicited, how to raise your kid!

  Tina Fey

  Baby, Kids, Adorable

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• Nothing out of the ordinary ever occurs to me when I'm by myself. But you attract duels, ambushes, immortal enemies, obscure creatures such as the Ra'zac, long-lost family members, and mysterious acts of magic as if they were were starving weasels and you were a rabbit that wandered into their den.

  Christopher Paolini

  Long, Magic, Enemy

  "Brisingr: Book Three". Book by Christopher Paolini, September 20, 2008.

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