Creatures Quote by Tash Aw Download Open image “Man is a restless creature, nomadic at heart.” — Tash Aw ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Creatures Heart Men Restless
Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man is not by any means of fixed and enduring form (this, in spite of suspicions to the contrary on the part of their… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal who does not feel at home in nature, who can feel evicted from paradise, the only animal for whom… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The spirit of man is nomad, his blood bedouin, and love is the aboriginal tracker on the faded desert spoor of his lost self;… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“...my mother took a younger man as a lover. They spent all day in her boudoir, festering in each other's company.” — Tash Aw Copy Share Image
“Time — how it expands to fill the spaces you create; how it makes meagre experiences seem never-ending. Whenever he heard people talk about… — Tash Aw Copy Share Image
“...a small piece of silk. It was at once iridescent and delicate, and shone with a colour no Occidental could ever have conceived....I held… — Tash Aw Copy Share Image
“Outlines of dead logs I hauled away remained impressed on the damp earth, scarring the ground with their funereal shapes.” — Tash Aw Copy Share Image
“...my limbs became leaden, my head light as yarn on a weaver's spindle. My vision dazzled with the colours of richly shot silk; above… — Tash Aw Copy Share Image
“It's impossible to find happiness if you're an orphan." "That's not true. Orphans are the only ones who are free to find their own… — Tash Aw Copy Share Image
Once in a while - perhaps every 10 years, or even every generation - a novel appears that profoundly questions the way we look… — Tash Aw Copy Share Image
“...he returned to his barricaded silence, locking me out of his world. The unfathomable, inscrutable East, I thought. I was cut adrift from the… — Tash Aw Copy Share Image
“Although harmony with nature is of considerable importance in planning a garden, it must never be allowed to obscure what lies at the heart… — Tash Aw Copy Share Image
I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
Almost everywhere we find . . . the use of various coercive measures, to rid ourselves as quickly as possible of the child withinus--i.e.,… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
No creature can attain a higher grade of nature without ceasing to exist. — Ananda Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
Most people are sensitized to animals through their cats and dogs, but for me it was a flounder. I used to go fishing with… — Dan Mathews Copy Share Image
...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
My dad's family were political and he was always a theatrical creature, whereas my mum is really musical and her father was the touring… — Grace Jones Copy Share Image
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
