Creatures Quotes

Quotations list about creatures, monsters and animals citing Albert Camus, Dale Carnegie and William Faulkner

  • Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

    — Albert Camus
    19
  • When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

    — Dale Carnegie
    17
  • An artist is a creature driven by demons.

    He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

    — William Faulkner
    15
  • Creatures quote The soul is the same in all living creatures although the body of each is differ

    The soul is the same in all living creatures although the body of each is different.

    — Hippocrates
    12
  • Gratitude is the first sign of a thinking, rational creature.

    — Solanus Casey
    12
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  • Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives;

    very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

    — Voltaire
    11
  • Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

    — Bruce Lee
    9
  • Extraordinary creature! So close a friend, and yet so remote.

    — Thomas Mann
    8
  • Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason itself.

    — John Milton
    8
  • Religion is the sign of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

    — Karl Marx
    8
  • Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

    — Eric Hoffer
    7
  • 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.

    — Theodore Roosevelt
    6
  • The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.

    — Thomas Hobbes
    5
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  • Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.

    — Marcus Annaeus Seneca Seneca The Elder
    5
  • The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

    — D. H. Lawrence
    5
  • Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

    — Albert Camus
    5
  • Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.

    — Finley Peter Dunne
    4
  • I'd rather be a creature of the night than an old dude.

    — Gerard Way
    4
  • 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.

    — Henry David Thoreau
    4
  • A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

    — Sir Richard Steele
    3
  • Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

    — Mark Twain
    3
  • Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

    — Mark Twain
    3
  • 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.

    — Karl Marx
    3
  • Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

    — Robert Louis Stevenson
    3
  • 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
    2
  • For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism;

    but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.

    — Thomas Carlyle
    2
  • What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!

    — Thomas Mann
    2
  • A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

    — Charles Dickens
    2
  • In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, ‘Is it good, friend?’ ‘It is bitter — bitter,’ he answered, ‘But I like it Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart.

    — Stephen Crane
    2
  • We were the only pulsating creatures in a dead world of ice.

    — Frederick Albert Cook
    2
  • Pigs are not that dirty. And they're smart, strange little creatures. They just need love.

    — Shelley Duvall
    2
  • As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God's image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of one's own.

    — Leon Kass
    2
  • An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church.

    — Martin Luther
    1
  • God's first creature, which was light.

    — Francis Bacon
    1
  • If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

    — Thomas Kempis
    1
  • Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.

    — Thomas Carlyle
    1
  • Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.

    — John Locke
    1
  • 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
    1
  • It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.

    — Emma Goldman
    1
  • All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

    — Friedrich von Schiller
    1
  • Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catch words.

    — Robert Louis Stevenson
    1
  • I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

    — Abigail Adams
    1
  • In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy.

    There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.

    — Maurice Sendak
    1
  • I've never been to a festival. I'm a creature of habit, mashed-potato comfort, I like rugs. Our sofa's squishy. Maybe too squishy - it's hard to get up sometimes.

    — Martin Freeman
    1
  • The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

    — George Bernard Shaw
    1
  • I've been a vegetarian for years and years.

    I'm not judgemental about others who aren't, I just feel I cannot eat or wear living creatures.

    — Drew Barrymore
    1
  • No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.

    — Marguerite de Valois
    1
  • Write me a creature that thinks as well as a man or better than a man, but not like a man.

    — John W. Campbell
    1
  • Live with your century; but do not be its creature.

    — Friedrich Schiller
    1
  • What about David Bowie? He's a sexy creature.

    — John Galliano
    1
  • There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

    — Sir William Temple
    0

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