Beasts Quotes

“You and I are nothing but wild beasts wearing human skins.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.”
― Herman Melville

“My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

“Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.”
― Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses

“A person doesn't try to obtain freedom if they think they're already free.”
― Jasun Ether, The Beasts of Success

“Beasts bounding through time.

Van Gogh writing his brother for paints
Hemingway testing his shotgun
Celine going broke as a doctor of medicine
the impossibility of being human
Villon expelled from Paris for being a thief
Faulkner drunk in the gutters of his town
the impossibility of being human
Burroughs killing his wife with a gun
Mailer stabbing his
the impossibility of being human
Maupassant going mad in a rowboat
Dostoevsky lined up against a wall to be shot
Crane off the back of a boat into the propeller
the impossibility
Sylvia with her head in the oven like a baked potato
Harry Crosby leaping into that Black Sun
Lorca murdered in the road by the Spanish troops
the impossibility
Artaud sitting on a madhouse bench
Chatterton drinking rat poison
Shakespeare a plagiarist
Beethoven with a horn stuck into his head against deafness
the impossibility the impossibility
Nietzsche gone totally mad
the impossibility of being human
all too human
this breathing
in and out
out and in
these punks
these cowards
these champions
these mad dogs of glory

moving this little bit of light toward
us
impossibly”
― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

“I thought the Invalids were beasts; I thought they would rip me apart. But these people saved me, and gave me the softest place to sleep, and nursed me back to health, and haven't asked for anything in return.

The animals are on the other side of the fence: monsters wearing uniforms. They speak softly, and tell lies, and smile as they're slitting your throat.”
― Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium

“[T]here is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Every creature was designed to serve a purpose. Learn from animals for they are there to teach you the way of life. There is a wealth of knowledge that is openly accessible in nature. Our ancestors knew this and embraced the natural cures found in the bosoms of the earth. Their classroom was nature. They studied the lessons to be learned from animals. Much of human behavior can be explained by watching the wild beasts around us. They are constantly teaching us things about ourselves and the way of the universe, but most people are too blind to watch and listen.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“We thought too much.
Because while hatred is a fire only man feels, he does not hate the beast that comes in the night. Mankind fears it, fights it, drives it off, but he does not hate it. No one hates the bear, he wolf. They don't hate the wind or the snow. They don't hate the death.
They hate each other.”
― Meagan Spooner, Hunted

“The night belongs to beasts of prey, and always has. It's easy to forget that when you're indoors, protected by light and solid walls.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

“The enemy of a kind spirit is the pointlessness we face in the shadow of time. ”
― Daniel Cuervonegro, Sins of the Maker

“Much of human behavior can be explained by watching the wild beasts around us. They are constantly teaching us things about ourselves and the way of the universe, but most people are too blind to watch and listen.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Every once in a while, I get the urge. You know what I’m talking about, don’t you? The urge for destruction. The urge to hurt, maim, kill.

It’s quite a thing, to experience that urge, to let it wash over you, to give in to it. It’s addictive. It’s all-consuming. You lose yourself to it. It’s quite, quite wonderful. I can feel it, even as I speak, tapping around the edges of my mind, trying to prise me open, slip its fingers in. And it would be so easy to let it happen.

But we’re all like that, aren’t we? We’re all barbarians at our core. We’re all savage, murderous beasts. I know I am. I’m sure you are. The only difference between us, Mr Prave, is how loudly we roar. I know I roar very loudly indeed. How about you? Do you think you can match me?”
― Derek Landy

“What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected.”
― Chief Seattle

“...if you fall into a lion's pit, the reason the lion will tear you to pieces is not because it's hungry-be assured, zoo animals are amply fed-or because it's bloodthirsty, but because you've invaded it's territory.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“And there are loners in rural communities who, at the equinox, are said to don new garments and stroll down to the cities, where great beasts await them, fat and docile.”
― Louis Aragon

“We carry the weight of our crimes and bear the wings of our kindness.”
― Daniel Cuervonegro, Sins of the Maker

“A soul is half its worth without a friend. That’s the embodiment of hope. Will you remember that, the two of you?”
― Daniel Cuervonegro, Sins of the Maker

“They are stupid, they are beasts, they are meat, they are death. I am talking simply but without any affectation.”
― Vaslav Nijinsky, The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky

“Monsters are more effective than princes when it comes to keeping what you care about safe.”
― Katee Robert, The Beast

“Man is not much beside the great birds and
beasts.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“The stick creatures come into view, beasts of branches and twigs- some shaped like enormous wolves, others like spiders, and one with three snapping heads, like nothing I have seen before. A few in vaguely human shapes, armed with bows. All of them crawling with moss and vine, with stones tucked into packed earth at their centres. But the worst part is that among those pieces of wood and fen, I see what appears to be waxy mortal fingers, strips of skin, and empty mortal eyes.

Terror breaks over me like a wave.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“Al gigante Grof le lanzaron una piedra al ojo, ese ojo se volvió hacia el interior en su mente, y el gigante murió por lo que vio en ella.”
― Patricia McKillip

“I try to remember a face that once brought happiness to my days, though it's slipped my memory for now. Lips that once said, "Rest with your dream in my dream." But now, I journey through the shadows alone, accompanied only by nameless beasts that steal my memories.”
― Rolf van der Wind

“Live out your days in untroubled serenity, refusing to be coerced though the whole world deafen you with its demands, and though wild beasts rend piecemeal this poor envelope of clay.”
― Shannon E. French, The Code of the Warrior: Exploring Warrior Values Past & Present

“A dragon is a beast."
"If girls can be wolves, can't men be beasts?”
― Ava Reid, The Wolf and the Woodsman

“Only care for me. If you can't love me.
Only don't ignore me...”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Beasts

“She was always pushing the limit, reaching for more, prodding beasts with sticks when she was in the cage with them.”
― Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea

“Consider this warning with care:
Rabbits are beasts beyond compare!”
― Michal Stawowski, The Piglet with the Rocket Rear: And Other Rollicking Rhymes