Top 100 Quotes About A Beast
#1. Some lioness whelped you on a mountain rock
In Libya, or else you're Scylla's child
Whose womb's all barking dogs, for only a wild
Beast with the nature of a beast could mock
A desperate man making a last appeal
Down on his knees. Bitch heart too hard to feel!
Catullus
#2. Direct [people] towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#3. Once again you ask about my wellbeing when I'm the one who just fucked you like a beast." He looked up with desolate eyes. "Can you forgive me for taking you like that? Today of all fucking days. I should've kissed you and made sweet gentle love rather than bruise you like the bastard I am.
Pepper Winters
#4. I didn't think you'd allow me to attend. (Emily)
I'm a beast, Emily, not a bastard. (Draven)
Kinley MacGregor
#5. Hearts set about finding other hearts the moment they are born, and between them, they weave nets so frightfully strong and tight that you end up bound forever in hopeless knots, even to the shadow of a beast you knew and loved long ago.
Catherynne M Valente
#6. A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#8. She became vulnerable before me, opening herself and letting me own her until I lost myself and became a beast. Without her armor, she was more beautiful than I'd imagined possible.
C.D. Reiss
#9. There's a beast in all of us, you know,' Jasper said.
'No,' Tessa said.
'Yes, a monster right inside of us all,' Jasper said.
They wondered what theirs looked like. They faced each other and blinked while making faces to try to capture the phantom.
Cecil Castellucci
#10. A long-running TV series is a beast in that it demands you stick to one character over a long haul.
Grant Bowler
#11. Man is not a beast of burden, and the Sabbath is not for the purpose of enhancing the efficiency of his work.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#12. But time was a beast, a big, indolent immovable beast that wasn't interested in my efforts at hastening it in any direction.
Piper Kerman
#13. Unity is a beast in itself. If a wolf sees two little boys playing in the woods on one side, and a big strong man on the other, he will go to the one who stands alone.
Suzy Kassem
#14. But Christine - fear can turn to love. You'll learn to see, to find the man behind the monster, this... repulsive carcass who seems a beast but secretly dreams of beauty secretly... secretly. Oh, Christine.
Charles Hart
#16. Where a beast would have claws, I was born with talent.
Klaus Kinski
#17. He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Aristotle.
#19. Never try to live decently, boy - not unless you're willing to open your life to tragedy and sadness. Live like a beast, and no event, no matter how harrowing, will ever be able to move you.
James Luceno
#20. Nik gripped his fork so tightly his knuckles turned white. His temper flared up like a beast inside him, clawing at the walls of its fleshy prison.
Quinn Anderson
#21. There is also a beast, a beast of strange dimensions. He has the head of a horse and the body of a man who needs a lot of attention. He represents me in college: I was a dork-ataur.
Demetri Martin
#22. A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.
Aristotle.
#23. I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.
Boris Pasternak
#24. I've a regard for law, although I do not always agree with it. Without law, man becomes a beast.
Louis L'Amour
#25. It's a beast of a country," said the Voice. "And pigs for people.
H.G.Wells
#26. He who learns, and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden with a load of books. Does the ass comprehend whether he carries on his back a library or a bundle of faggots?
Saadi
#27. There's a beast in me. I destroy those I cannot control. I must be certain that those close to me share my identical interests. I'm benevolent within that construction. I'm ghastly outside of it.
James Ellroy
#28. To live alone one must be either a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#29. Time is a beast who has the immense patience to swallow everything.
Octavian Paler
#30. I was going to fight to keep the elusive Horde King as my own. Every beauty needed a beast, and he was mine.
Amelia Hutchins
#31. Hee a beast doth die, that hath done no good to his country.
George Herbert
#32. I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, down throw and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression.
Dylan Thomas
#33. The bourgeoisie loves so-called " positive " types and novels with happy endings since they lull one into thinking that it is fine to simultaneously acquire capital and maintain one's innocence , to be a beast and still be happy .
Anton Chekhov
#35. This is inhuman!" shrieked Rat-catcher 2.
"No, it's very human," said Keith. "It's extremely human. There isn't a beast in the world that'd do it to another living thing, but your poisons do it to rats every day.
Terry Pratchett
#36. The man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god.
Brent Weeks
#37. Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man.
Marianne Moore
#38. He was the monster. That was what Kahlan saw. And she had sent him away in a collar to be tortured. Because he was a monster that needed to be collared, a beast.
Terry Goodkind
#39. During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.
Alexander Alekhine
#40. Man is evil, by nature man is a beast. People have to be educated from childhood, from kindergarten, that there should be no hatred.
Marek Edelman
#41. Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.
P.D. James
#42. I'll worship animals in the night, I'll lay violent hands on the holiest icons, I'll clutch at all lies, I'll grow bestial in my dreams and will allow myself to be slaughtered like a beast.
Ingeborg Bachmann
#43. A beast barely able to restrain itself carried a risk to its master.
Robert Ferrigno
#44. An anomaly has his own ambitions. You can try reasoning with him, but that's like using money to bribe a beast.
Criss Jami
#45. A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.
Margaret Cavendish
#46. The Force tries to resist the callings of ravenous spirits; therefore it must be broken and made a beast of burden. It must be made to answer to one's will.
James Luceno
#47. I am the keeper of the beast, though all men harbor a beast in the depths of their heart
callous, calamitous creatures, driven by deviant demands and derisive diligence.
From the short story What Rough Beast
Michael Hibbard
#48. My hero among heroes is my grandmother, she's the epitome of strength and I try to mock that strength all the time. She's a beast.
Aeriel Miranda
#49. And in the distance, so faint I thought I might have imagined it, a beast's roar cleaved the land.
Sarah J. Maas
#50. There is a beast in my gut, I can hear it scraping away at the inside of my ribs.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#51. I'd learned pretty early on that men were basic creatures. Take away their suits and wives and jobs and responsibilities, and you're left with a beast. A beast who wanted to spar and maim - to embrace their inner savage.
Pepper Winters
#52. It is understood that inside even the most innocent of beings slumbers a beast. This beast, with proper coaxing can be released. But can it be controlled?
Inger Iversen
#53. You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast.
Junior Seau
#54. A man without justice is a beast, and a man who would make himself a beast forgets the pain of being a man.
Timothy Leary
#55. I'm a beast, I am, and a Badger what's more. We don't change. We hold on.
C.S. Lewis
#56. Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden.
Jean-Francois De La Harpe
#57. The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god ...
Aristotle.
#58. She looks like a sweet little lamb from afar, but when you get close, you find out she skinned and ate the damn thing just to use it as a coat. She's a beast.
~Liam C.
J.J. McAvoy
#59. Beast?" Jane murmured. "Then God make me a beast; for, man or beast, I am yours.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#60. Yes I'm a beast and I feast when I conquer!
Nicki Minaj
#61. Anger - a beast within us that needs taming.
Saru Singhal
#62. When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.
William Shakespeare
#63. If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.
Denis Diderot
#64. I'm like a beast. I just take it out on the track.
Yohan Blake
#65. If a man is a beast, he's a beast in his heart, and that's not the kind of heart that beats in you.
Dean Koontz
#66. You're such a beast," I speak softly into his ear before nipping his lope lightly with my teeth. "But I'm your beast, and baby ... every Beauty needs a Beast.
Harper Sloan
#67. Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom.
Dante Alighieri
#68. Man is a part of God, or else he is a beast; and beasts know love and fear and hate and hunger
but not exultation
Howard Fast
#69. Fear was like a beast that only grew fiercer when one gave in to it.
Cornelia Funke
#70. Desperation's heated breath singed my neck, its jagged teeth prepared to devour my flesh. Poverty growled too, waiting its turn, famished yet patient, a beast that dined on the bones of men.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#71. People talk sometimes of bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#72. I said: "He cannot be so bad if he loves roses so much."
"But he is a Beast," said Father helplessly.
I saw that he was weakening, and wishing only to comfort him I said, "Cannot a Beast be tamed?
Robin McKinley
#73. The music industry has always been a beast, which would eat you up and spit you out.
Annie Lennox
#74. Because inside me is a beast that snarls, and growls, and strains toward freedom.. and as hard as I try, I cannot kill it.
Veronica Roth
#76. The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he's dying don't give him pity for others.
Tennessee Williams
#77. The farmhouse itself no longer looked like a beast about to spring. (Not that it ever had, to her, for she was not in the habit of thinking that things looked exactly like other things which were as different from them in appearance as it was possible to be.)
Stella Gibbons
#78. The mosquito knows full well, small as he is he's a beast of prey. But after all he only takes his bellyful, he doesn't put my blood in the bank.
D.H. Lawrence
#79. He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
Samuel Johnson
#80. Music soothes my savage beast. I got a beast in me running wild.
Dennis Rodman
#81. The shortest way to change a radical into a conservative, a liberal into a tyrant, a man into a beast, is to give him power over his fellows.
Benjamin Tucker
#82. Beauty loved him more than anything, her Beast boy, but, secretly, sometimes, she wished he would have remained a Beast.
Francesca Lia Block
#83. So he had sunk to the state of a beast that licks his chaps after meat.
James Joyce
#84. The devil made you a slave. Your waitin' for the devil to come from the ground. Take a look around. Just look at the cross that the priest is holdin'. A beast, in sheep's clothin'. You are the prince of darkness. Hell born, demonic.
Ice Cube
#85. What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more:
William Shakespeare
#86. Is it true the ribs can tell The kick of a beast from a Lover's fist?
Maya Angelou
#87. Man is neither angel nor beast, and the misfortune is that he who wishes to be an angel becomes a beast' (Blaise Pascal).
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#89. I am a beast. But this is no fairytale, Lily. This - right here in front of you - is the real deal. I am a beast in size, a beast in looks, and a beast by nature. I am not a good man.
Jaimie Roberts
#90. Sylvia's dark eyes widened. "You are more than you appear to be"
"Yes. I am a monster of Darkness, a beast," he agreed with her. Her lips tilted up.
"Can a beast weep in sorrow? Does darkness have the capacity to feel loneliness? I think not.
P.C. Cast
#91. What are you?" I whispered.
He shrugged again.
"Something," he said. "Something like you, something like a beast, something like a bird, something like an angel." He laughed. "Something like that.
David Almond
#92. A god who brings you good and bad in equal amounts doesn't ask for much, " she said. "Maybe a prayer or two. Maybe the odd sacrifice of a beast. But a god who promises only good times?" She shook her head and made the warding sign against evil. "A god like that will always want something from you.
John Flanagan
#93. But this man ... this powerful, lovely man was not afraid of her. He was also a beast, and an earl, which seemed to be something like a prince in this country, and he was not afraid. And he was tender, and he was strong, and he was drakon.
Shana Abe
#94. I might be a beast astray, with no sense of its environment, yet there was some meaning in my foolish life, something in me gave an answer and was the receiver of those distant calls from worlds far above.
Hermann Hesse
#95. My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo
Victor Hugo
#96. In politics and in war, monsters are defined by which side of a fight a man claims. He is still a man to those who share his beliefs, perhaps even a hero. To those that oppose his philosophy, he is a beast, a creature, one of a thousand unspeakable demons clashing over an ideal.
Lee Thomas
#97. A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People ... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast.
Algernon Sidney
#98. It may be, of course, above all, that what suddenly broke into this gives the previous time a charm of stillness - that hush in which something gathers or crouches. The change was actually like the spring of a beast.
Henry James
#99. He looks strong and animal and dominant, a beast of sex.
Portia Da Costa
#100. If you have given up your heart ... you have already lost. A heartless creature is a loveless creature, and a loveless creature is a beast.
Stephen King
