Creature Quotes

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. (Albert Camus)
Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system. View quote
Bruce Lee
There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman. View quote
Karl Kraus
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed. View quote
Tom Clancy
Man is the creature of circumstances. View quote
Robert Owen
I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it. View quote
Terry Pratchett
The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
You look at any poetic creature: muslin, ether, demigoddess, millions of delights; then you look into the soul and find the most ordinary crocodile! View quote
Anton Chekhov
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot. (Mark Twain)
The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. View quote
Karl Marx
So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born. View quote
Edward Dahlberg
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
There is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it. View quote
George Eliot
That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy. View quote
Freda Adler
Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind. View quote
W. H. Auden
Love is an affection which carries the attention of the mind beyond itself, and is the sense of a relation to some fellow creature as to its object. View quote
Adam Ferguson
I'd rather be a creature of the night than an old dude. View quote
Gerard Way
I am a weak, ephemeral creature made of mud and dream. But I feel all the powers of the universe whirling within me. (Nikos Kazantzakis)
When all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All place shall be hell that is not heaven. View quote
Christopher Marlowe
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. View quote
George Orwell
The creator, if he should love his creature, would be loving only a part of himself; but the creature, praising the creator, praises an infinity beyond himself. View quote
Olaf Stapledon
He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him. View quote
Henry Fielding