#creature

We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#animal #away #creatures #discontent #dying

A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. ↗

— Baroness Orczy

#beings #creatures #crowd #ear #eye

You don’t have to love me; just don’t hate me beautiful creature! ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#creature #hate #love #beauty

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#because #cats #creatures #like #lovable

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

#creature #heart #heartless #opium #oppressed

It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#creatures #cruel #end #leave #magnificent

You know, I designed the Queen crest. I simply combined all the creatures that represent our star signs-and I don't even believe in astrology. ↗

— Freddie Mercury

#believe #combined #creatures #crest #designed

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures. ↗

— Stewart Udall

#american #brother #common #creatures #earth

I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#eloquently #i #just #pitiable #suffer

What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature? ↗

— Max Muller

#ask #creator #creature #divine #emitted