Quotes Tagged "creature"

Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something he can see and feel.

Every being, created by God and unspoiled by man, is perfect, strictly defined and autonomous, entirely complete and at the same time with a built-in ability to grow and develop. This is the essence of its dignity and holiness. It is not an embodiment of God’s immense Personality, but only one of the realisations of His perfection.

I’m barely human. I’m more like a creature; to me, everything gives off a scent! Thoughts, moments, feelings, movements, words left unsaid, words barely spoken; they all have a distinct sense, distinct fragrances! Both a smell and a touch! To inhale is to capture, to experience! I can perceive and I can “touch” in so many odd ways! And so I am made up of all these scents, all these feelings! An illumination of nerve endings!

Doubt is a creature within the air. It grows when someone hesitates.

The smaller the creature, the bolder its spirit.

I saw that pain and disease existed and at the same time that they were void of sense and meaning. Among the men of the rabble I had become a creature of a strange, unknown race, so much so that they had forgotten that I had once been part of their world. I had the dreadful sensation that I was not really alive or wholly dead. I was a living corpse, unrelated to the world of living people and at the same time deprived of the oblivion and peace of death.

Within this new work of art a creature from beyond the reach of Humanity has insinuated herself and now lurks there at the heart of the mystery, a power unimagined before our time.

Man is the creature of circumstances.

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

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

The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.

No human creature can give orders to love.

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.