Creatures Quotes
2516 quotes by 1578 authors
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I am an act of kneading, of uniting and joining that not only has produced both a creature of darkness and a creature of light,…
— Gloria E. Anzaldúa
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These are the moments which are not calculable, and cannot be assessed in words; they live on in the solution of memory, like wonderful creatures,…
— Lawrence Durrell
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The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a…
— Pearl S. Buck
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Stupid, Stupid Rat Creatures!
— Jeff Smith
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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being…
— Marcel Proust
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She could walk through a lightning storm without being touched; grab a bolt of lightning in the palm of her hand; use the heat of…
— Gloria Naylor
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The pleasure in complete domination over another person (or other animate creature) is the very essence of the sadistic drive. Another way of formulating the…
— Erich Fromm
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I didn’t look to the shore much after this first long and memorable glimpse. I looked up at Heaven and her court of mythical creatures…
— Anne Rice
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The ocean was the best place, of course. That was what she loved most. It was a feeling of freedom like no other, and yet…
— Ann Brashares
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Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I did…
— Virginia Woolf
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To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to…
— Frank Herbert
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Don't you know no one can escape the power of creatures reaching out with breath alone?
— Marina Tsvetaeva
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Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.
— Arundhati Roy
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God is the highest good of the reasonable creature. The enjoyment of him is our proper; and is the only happiness with which our souls…
— Jonathan Edwards
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As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as…
— Jonathan Edwards
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He is some brainless, beautiful creature, who should always be here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and always here in…
— Oscar Wilde
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...we are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves - such a friend ought to be - do not…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
— William Faulkner
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she, with her affection and her gaiety, had been largely responsible for him having rediscovered the meaning of life, her love had driven him to…
— Paulo Coelho
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And the turtles, of course...all the turtles are free, as turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.
— Dr. Seuss
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