Top 100 Creature Quotes
#1. The look of disbelief that ran across the boy's face was somehow more disturbing than the despair it had replaced. This creature had given up hope long ago; he probably begged out of habit rather than expectation.
Brandon Sanderson
#2. What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she is a relative; what a kind, good-natured old creature we find her!
William Makepeace Thackeray
#3. What a massive responsibility, being a moral creature
Isaac Marion
#4. there is no creature more empathetic toward those who suffer social injustice, more compelled by optimism and faith in humankind, or more aspirational in her beliefs than a middle schooler.
Michelle Icard
#5. This destroyer of worlds and creature of wonder.
Renee Ahdieh
#6. I haven't really been able to transfer into that extraordinarily other worldly creature, other than I hope on stage.
Renee Fleming
#7. ( ... ) that the creature I loved was lying somewhere in a hole underground, to all intents and purposes dead until dark.
Charlaine Harris
#8. Luck is a fickle creature. She loves
many, but is faithful to none.
Karen Hawkins
#9. A well-made Martini or Gibson, correctly chilled and nicely served, has been more often my true friend than any two-legged creature.
M.F.K. Fisher
#10. O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel (Who had no doubt some noble creature in her) Dashed all to pieces! O, the cry did knock Against my very heart! Poor souls, they perished!
William Shakespeare
#11. All Nature is linked together by invisible bonds and every organic creature, however low, however feeble, however dependent, is necessary to the well-being of some other among the myriad forms of life.
George Perkins Marsh
#12. Man is a gregarious creature, we are told, a social being. Does that mean he is also a herd animal? ... Are men no better than sheep or cattle, that they must live always in view of one another in order to feel a sense of safety? I can't believe it!
Edward Abbey
#13. Humility is, nothing but that simple consent of the creature to let God be all, in virtue of which it surrenders itself to His working alone.
Andrew Murray
#14. I didn't know what kind of creature I was supposed to be until I woke on a hospital cot and was informed I had died. Nobody ever told me what I was. I figured I was broken. But it turns out that my scars were divine signs that I was granted a chance to begin again.
Hannah Ashworth
#15. There is so much darkness in Ember, Lina. It's not just outside, it's inside us, too. Everyone has some darkness inside. It's like a hungry creature. It wants and wants and wants with a terrible power. And the more you give it, the bigger and hungrier it gets.
Jeanne DuPrau
#16. The one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart.
Zhuangzi
#17. The gilded confines of the Beauty Hall were not my preferred habitat; like the chicken that had laid the eggs for my sandwich, I was more of a free-range creature.
Gail Honeyman
#18. You run into a party and [a] woman comes up to you. She's the most beautiful creature you ever saw - Ava Gardner - and says, "I like you and why don't we get together?" What are you going to say, "No"? You'd have to be an idiot. She was an incredible creature.
Artie Shaw
#19. We now to peace and darkness And earth and thee restore Thy creature that thou madest And wilt cast forth no more.
A.E. Housman
#20. In technological development, in production of material goods and creature comforts, we've challenged the very gods, but psychologically, emotionally, we're scarcely more than chimpanzees with bulldozers, baboons with big bombs.
Tom Robbins
#21. Thirrin's fighting spirit still roared within her though, and as the creature lowered its jaws towards her throat she punched it hard on the nose. The werewolf shook its head and sneezed, taken completely aback.
Stuart Hill
#22. Nature does not often say "See!" to her poor creature at a time when seeing can lead to happy doing; or reply "Here!" to a body's cry of "Where?
Thomas Hardy
#23. He was the most wickedly handsome creature she had ever seen in all her days. His hair was black as night, his stature large, his muscles were etched with precision into his smooth skin, every last ripple chiseled into wicked perfection.
Madison Thorne Grey
#24. Never underestimate the will of a creature who begins to die at birth.
Lyn Benedict
#25. There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#26. Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.
Madeleine De Scudery
#27. If you give such a creature two blows with a whip, there are, indeed, two pains: but there is no co-ordinating self which can recognise that 'I have had two pains'.
C.S. Lewis
#28. Man will always remain an unsuccessful creature till he stops being a mortal being!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#29. Sweeney took a step closer to Wednesday. "Call me a freeloader, will you, you doomed old creature? You cold-blooded, heartless old tree-hanger." His face was turning a deep, angry red.
Wednesday put out his hands, palms up, pacific. "Foolishness, Sweeney. Watch where you put your words.
Neil Gaiman
#30. Take this Hercules -this hero! Hero, indeed! What was he but a large muscular creature of low intelligence and criminal tendencies!
Agatha Christie
#31. No one really knows human nature, men as well as women, who has not lived in the bondage of marriage, that is to say, the enforced study of a fellow creature.
Carol Tavris
#32. Every creature in the world is like a book and a picture and a mirror for us
Alain De Lille
#33. Acting's always felt like a kind of creature that lays dormant and collects observations when I'm not working. And then when I'm actually doing it, it just rises up. But everything I do is more about curiosity and investigation than it is about performance.
Benn Northover
#34. What a glorious creature must he have been in the day of his prosperity, when he is thus noble and godlike in ruin.
Mary Shelley
#35. God made man mortal and to console this transitory creature He gave him an immortal toy called Art!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#36. Pythagoras said that the most divine art was that of healing. And if the healing art is most divine, it must occupy itself with the soul as well as with the body; for no creature can be sound so long as the higher part in it is sickly.
Apollonius Of Tyana
#37. Every change in human attitude must come through internal understanding and acceptance. Man is the only known creature who can reshape and remould himself by altering his attitude.
John C. Maxwell
#38. A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle.
Ambrose Bierce
#39. Ethan looked at her with loathing. She was no longer the listless creature who had lived at his side in a state of sullen self-absorption, but a mysterious alien presence, an evil energy secreted from the long years of silent brooding.
Edith Wharton
#40. 'I thought the rule was that all monks were shaved.'
'Oh, Soto says he is bald under the hair,'said Lu Tze. 'He says the hair is a separate creature that just happens to live on him.
Terry Pratchett
#41. Thinking of the little creature dying in her
Nan Sweet
#42. All I desire for my own burial, is not to be buried alive; but how or where, I think, must be entirely indifferent to every rational creature.
Lord Chesterfield
#43. For she was a creature of odd whims and unsatisfied tendencies.
D.H. Lawrence
#44. Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his success mechanism by the use of imagination, or imaging ability.
Maxwell Maltz
#45. There is in every animal's eye a dim image and gleam of humanity, a flash of strange light through which their life looks out and up to our great mystery of command over them, and claims the fellowship of the creature if not of the soul.
John Ruskin
#46. But I was a lonely creature, and although I would have been very happy to have a friend I just never happened to meet one.
Robertson Davies
#47. Has the world become so topsy-turvy that a living creature, whom the gift of reason makes divine, believes that his glory lies solely in possession of lifeless goods?
Boethius
#48. I really love routine and so I've never found it a problem. I really enjoy it. I don't mind somebody organising what I have to do. I'm a creature of habit in some ways.
Victoria Pendleton
#49. And if thy heart be straight with God then every creature shall be to thee a mirror of life and a book of holy doctrine for there is no creature so little or so despised but that sheweth and representeth the goodness of God.
Thomas A Kempis
#50. If you want to know why the towers of American capitalism are crumbling, I recommend reading 'The Creature from Jekyll Island' by G. Edward Griffin.
Robert Kiyosaki
#51. Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
John Donne
#52. And so man, as existing transcendence abounding in and surpassing toward possibilities, is a creature of distance. Only through the primordial distances he establishes toward all being in his transcendence does a true nearness to things flourish in him.
Martin Heidegger
#53. I can hardly regard her in the light of a rational creature, so obstinately has she persisted in forming a fabulous notion of my character and acting on the false impressions she cherished.
Emily Bronte
#54. I envy you, your youth. Every woman is still a dream, a thing that can't exist. Even when you touch her, a creature too beautiful to be real or to cause real pain. It's different for old men. We have more old wounds from these dreams.
Rasmenia Massoud
#55. I'm a bit of a weird creature ... I'm self taught and went to a regular film school, not art school, and I think it's unusual for somebody to approach animation from that angle. In a sense I've sometimes consclassered myself more of a filmmaker who just happens to animate.
Don Hertzfeldt
#56. A Russian drunk is a fascinating creature. Even when he has money, he still prefers poison at a rouble forty. And he won't take the change.
Sergei Dovlatov
#57. Have you ever held a snake? They are so strong. You can see why there are so many myths about them: they are unlike any other creature. It's extraordinary how that little brain can keep everything moving in different directions.
Michelle Paver
#58. In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world - God and yourself. The Bible is the story of God and man, a love story in which you and I must write our own ending, our unfinished autobiography of the creature and the Creator.
Fulton Oursler
#59. Nature had squandered an unreasonable quantity of male beauty on this undeserving creature.
Lisa Kleypas
#60. What right has a man to ask Jesus to forgive him, when his heart is still burning with hatred or festering with grudges against a fellow-creature? Confession, to be of any avail, must let go of its hold on the sin confessed.
Theodore L. Cuyler
#61. Alas! a woman that attempts the pen,
Such an intruder on the rights of men,
Such a presumptuous Creature, is esteem'd,
The fault, can by no virtue be redeem'd.
Anne Finch
#62. An artist is someone who cannot rest, who can never rest as long as there is one suffering creature in the world.
Madeleine L'Engle
#63. Makeup can be pure fantasy
it can transform you into any kind of magical creature, whether that's a superhero or a retro Hollywood icon or just a more fun, fresher version of yourself. Looking like a stress-free, well-rested working mom? That's some kind of magic to me.
Jessica Alba
#64. She knew instinctively that every creature was entitled to one thing: life. To steal that through abuse or indifference argued a crime against
J.K. Accinni
#65. I'm a creature of habit. I go to restaurants all the time and stuff.
Jason Schwartzman
#66. Lust is a master showman who disguises himself as love, and love is a mythical creature who keeps habitat with the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, and other lies we have been fed.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#68. Stop," cried the traveler. "What God does is well done. Do not claim to know more than He. God has given organs to this frail creature; let them develop and grow strong by exercise, use, experience, and liberty.
Frederic Bastiat
#69. The grey of a bitter, starved-looking morning. The town like a mortally wounded creature, torn by shells, gashed open by bombs. Dead streets - streets of death - death in streets and their houses; yet people still able to sleep and still sleeping.
Radclyffe Hall
#70. I am merely an insignificant creature on a microscopic blue dot in the vastness of space.
Abhijit Naskar
#71. So ... you faze out, hear voices, and blame your tempered outbursts on a fictional creature living in ... " he looked down at my stomach, "your belly."
"Precisely. The boy catches on quick.
A.M. Hudson
#72. She was the subject creature, and versed in the arts of the enslaved.
Edith Wharton
#73. To say we love God as unseen and at the same time exercise cruelty toward the least creature moving by His life or by life derived from Him, was a contradiction in itself.
John Woolman
#74. Jan could not recall ever seeing a creature more beautiful, though there nagged somewhere at the back of his mind the notion that she ought to have seemed hideous. Why? For she was pure, admirably pure, without a twinge of conscience or shame.
Meredith Ann Pierce
#75. He who dreads death, dreads either an extinction of all sense, or dreads a different sort of sensation. If all sense is extinguished, there can be no sense of evil. If a different sort of sense is acquired, you become another sort of living creature; and don't cease to live.
Marcus Aurelius
#76. The expression just set me on edge. He had the look of an injured wild animal. I imagined a hungry lion limping in front of me with a bloody paw. No matter how much the beast stumbled or bled, one would have to always remember that the creature could tear the average human body in half.
Kenya Wright
#77. Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.
Patrick Dempsey
#78. It struck Mort with sudden, terrible poignancy that Death must be the loneliest creature in the universe. In the great party of Creation, he was always in the kitchen.
Terry Pratchett
#79. It's his last thrill and his last sting of love, as fresh and painful as youth transplanted over time and an ocean. There is nothing left for him now except to die, but that will take a while because he is a creature of habit, and he has got into the habit of being alive.
Ann-Marie MacDonald
#80. [W]ithout travelling one remains a poor creature; that goes especially for people in the arts and sciences! [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]
Jasper Rees
#81. The great commandment is that we preach the gospel to every creature, but neither God nor the Bible says anything about forcing it down people's throats.
Louis Zamperini
#82. The left hemisphere is more sophisticated and specialized, a very late outgrowth of the primate, and especially the hominid, brain. On the other hand, it is the right hemisphere which controls the crucial powers of recognizing reality which every living creature must have in order to survive.
Oliver Sacks
#83. How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation
for a chatterbox is truly of a lower category than a dumb creature.
Soren Kierkegaard
#84. When God plans to bless a man, he takes this poor time-cursed creature into His hand and says., My son, I breath into you eternity and immortality.
A.W. Tozer
#85. She liked Anthony, though. All her life, at intervals, she returned to the thought of him and of that which he offered. But she was a traveller, she was a traveller on the face of the earth, and he was an isolated creature living in the fulfilment of his own senses. She
D.H. Lawrence
#86. Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are.
John Ruskin
#87. However, in my thoughts I could not sufficiently wonder at the intrepidity of these diminutive mortals, who durst venture to mount and walk upon my body, while one of my hands was at liberty, without trembling at the very sight of so prodigious a creature as I must appear to them.
Jonathan Swift
#88. There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
George Eliot
#89. Tearing your clothes, burning your books and torturing yourself only prove that you are nothing but a wild creature.
M.F. Moonzajer
#90. She is the creature of life, the giver of life, and the giver of abundant love, care and protection. Such are the great qualities of a mother. The bond between a mother and her child is the only real and purest bond in the world, the only true love we can ever find in our lifetime.
Ama H. Vanniarachchy
#91. The creature's good is a superadded quality, in God it is His essence. He is infinitely good; the creature's good is but a drop, but in God there in an infinite ocean or gathering together of good.
Thomas Manton
#92. I am a tarsier and a tarsier's son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out ...
Wislawa Szymborska
#93. I'm a creature who bores, easily. I could never do one job, for the rest of my life.
Robert Kazinsky
#94. I have no idea why, but I'm grinning back at her. This temperamental, wild creature in front of me who has the nerve to put me in my place.
A. Zavarelli
#95. The proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator - to enact intellectually, volitionally, and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the mere fact of its being a creature. When it does so, it is good and happy.
C.S. Lewis
#96. For although the will cannot be inwardly moved by any creature, yet it can be moved inwardly by God.
Thomas Aquinas
#97. When, to gratify a private appetite, it is once resolved upon that an ignorant and helpless creature shall be sacrificed, it is an easy matter to pick up sticks enough from any thicket where it has strayed, to make a fire to offer it up with.
Laurence Sterne
#98. And so the Holiness of God is that infinite Perfection by which He keeps Himself free from all that is not Divine, and yet has fellowship with the creature, and takes it up into union with Himself, destroying and casting out all that will not yield itself to Him.
Andrew Murray
#99. My reputation is largely the creature of the kindly imaginings of my flock, whom I chose not to disillusion, in part because the truth had the kind of pathos in it that would bring on sympathy in its least bearable forms.
Marilynne Robinson
#100. What better way for such a creature to gain freedom? Men would die in the name of prophecies.
Brandon Sanderson
