Quotes About Peopled

beings we think of and therefore speak of as persons worthy of our respect, of inclusion in a peopled world.

Spaces are scientific, open, and detached; places are intimate, peopled, and emotive.

The multitude of slowly shrivelling corpses that peopled the vault, slid softly to powder in a soulless void.

For Nature, which has peopled the land with rational souls, may not have left the sea altogether barren of them

And I watch my words from a long way off. They are more yours than mine. They climb on my old suffering like ivy. It climbs the same way on damp walls. You are to blame for this cruel sport. They are fleeing from my dark lair. You fill everything, you fill everything. Before you they peopled the solitude that you occupy, and they are more used to my sadness than you are. Now I want them to say what I want to say to you to make you hear as I want you to hear me.

A particular feature of Stevenson's oeuvre is the way in which characters that appear in one book may crop up in another context in a quite different title. Readers like this because in a way it reflects the way the world is; our lives are not linear narratives–they are meandering stories that take place in diverse settings and that are peopled by characters who drop in and out at various stages.

Had God,then,peopled the whole universe with our kind?Did he perhaps in very truth make us in his image?It was incredible.To ask such questions proved that I had lost mental balance.