Creatures Quotes - Page 17

• You are the most beautiful creature I have ever seen walking this earth. You have no clue of how beautiful you are or how brightly you shine.

  Richelle Mead

  Beautiful, Shining, Earth

  Richelle Mead (2012). “Bloodlines: The Golden Lily”, p.314, Penguin UK

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• I don't care if you say we can't be together. I don't care if you think I'm the most evil, unnatural creature walking on earth. You can think whatever you want, go whatever you want. I'm going to just go on loving you, even if it's hopeless.

  Richelle Mead

  Thinking, Evil, Loving You

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• Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.

  George Orwell

  Men, Animal, Interest

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One mistake, one brief lapse of my new found judgement-that's all it took to unravel everything. What a massive responsibility, being a moral creature.

  Isaac Marion

  Mistake, Responsibility, Judgement

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• I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and nick-name God's creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on't; it hath made me mad.

  William Shakespeare

  Ignorance, Names, Mad

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Hamlet! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.201, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I feel closer ties and more intimate bonds with certain characters in books, with certain images I’ve seen in engravings, than with many supposedly real people with the metaphysical absurdity known as ‘flesh and blood’. In fact, ‘flesh and blood’ describes them very well: they resemble cuts of meat laid out on the butcher’s marble slab, dead creatures bleeding as though still alive.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Real, Book, Character

  Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.47, Profile Books

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• There are enough cowards in the world without killing a brave creature for so little reason.

  Brian Jacques

  Brave, Coward, World

  Brian Jacques (2002). “Mossflower: A Tale from Redwall”, p.23, Penguin

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• Beside her, her husband could only splutter, and he stopped even that when she half turned to flash him a smile - the instinctive, brilliant smile of a woman who knows what feeble creatures men can be. You couldn't learn to smile like that. It was something a woman either knew the minute she was born, or never knew at all. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")

  Cornell Woolrich

  Husband, Men, Tonight

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• We must understand that God does not "love" us without liking us - through gritted teeth - as "Christian" love is sometimes thought to do. Rather, out of the eternal freshness of his perpetually self-renewed being, the heavenly Father cherishes the earth and each human being upon it. The fondness, the endearment, the unstintingly affectionate regard of God toward all his creatures is the natural outflow of what he is to the core - which we vainly try to capture with our tired but indispensable old word "love".

  Dallas Willard

  Christian, Father, Tired

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• I'm not good at love. I'm like a barbed creature. I push everyone I love away.

  Kristin Cashore

  Pushing Me Away

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.154, Hachette UK

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• Grief causes you to leave yourself. You step outside your narrow little pelt. And you can’t feel grief unless you’ve had love before it - grief is the final outcome of love, because it’s love lost. […] It’s the cycle of love completed: to love, to lose, to feel grief, to leave, and then to love again. Grief is the awareness that you will have to be alone, and there is nothing beyond that because being alone is the ultimate final destiny of each individual living creature. That’s what death is, the great loneliness.

  Philip K. Dick

  Lost Love, Loneliness, Grief

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• A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures.

  Stephen King

  Men, Wife, Good Wife

  Stephen King (2016). “The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• We must always remember, however,' said Psmith gravely, 'that poets are also God's creatures.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Remember, Poet, Said

  P.G. Wodehouse (2009). “Leave it to Psmith”, p.116, Random House

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• The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.

  Victor Hugo

  Beautiful, Soul, Unhappy

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.709, BookCaps Study Guides

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• He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest, about the evil things and the good things, things friendly and things unfriendly, cruel things and kind things, and secrets hidden under brambles.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Flower, Evil, Tree

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Respect begins with this attitude: "I acknowledge that you are a creature of extreme worth. God has endowed you with certain abilities and emotions. Therefore I respect you as a person. I will not desecrate your worth by making critical remarks about your intellect, your judgment or your logic. I will seek to understand you and grant you the freedom to think differently from the way I think and to experience emotions that I may not experience." Respect means that you give the other person the freedom to be an individual.

  Gary Chapman

  Attitude, Mean, Thinking

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• Slowly I learnt the ways of humans: how to ruin, how to hate, how to debase, how to humiliate. And at the feet of my Master I learnt the highest of human skills, the skill no other creature owns: I finally learnt how to lie.

  Nick Dear

  Hate, Lying, Skills

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• I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.

  Franz Kafka

  People, Mind, Wish

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• So we found the end of our journey. So we stood, alive in the river of light, Among the creatures of light, creatures of light.

  Ted Hughes

  Journey, Light, Rivers

  Ted Hughes (2012). “Collected Poems of Ted Hughes”, p.990, Faber & Faber

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• I saw no cause for their unhappiness, but I was deeply affected by it. If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being, should be wretched.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Lovely, Saws, Causes

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.87

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• Do you think you have the right to give me orders now?" The Archangel of New York, a creature so lethal that part of her feared him even now, lifted the hair off her nape, brushed his lips across her skin. "Of course. You are mine." No hint of humor, nothing but stark possession. "I don't think you've quite got the hang of this true love thing.

  Nalini Singh

  New York, Thinking, Hair

  Nalini Singh (2010). “Archangel's Kiss”, p.4, Penguin

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• To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it must one day quit the nibbled leaf to soar aloft and flutter through the air, roving at will from flower to flower, sipping sweet honey from their cups, or basking in their sunny petals.

  Anne Bronte

  Sweet, Fear, Regret

  "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall". Ch. XLV : Reconciliation; Helen to Gilbert. Book by Anne Bronte, 1848.

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• Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.

  Mark Twain

  Sports, Dog, Pain

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• People generally fall into one of three groups: the few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens. Every person is either a creator of fact or a creature of circumstance. He either puts color into his environment, or, like a chameleon, takes color from his environment.

  Myles Munroe

  Relationship, Fall, Color

  Myles Munroe (2011). “Understanding Your Potential: Discovering the Hidden You”, p.12, Destiny Image Publishers

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• My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.

  Jodi Picoult

  Brother, Men, Dragons

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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