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Quotes About Beast

our beings struggle in our bodies like light trapped in a jar, and our bodies struggle in this world as a beast of burden chafes its yoke, and this world itself hangs alone on its noose, strung among the indifferent stars.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Sanity is the thread through the labyrinth of the Minotaur. Once cut, or unravelled, all that lies in wait are gloomy tunnels unfathomable by any map, and what hides there is a beast in human form, wearing our own face. We are what we fear.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast - or else there is nothing at all.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Cielo santo, una bestia con una espada —siseó la criatura. Giró de nuevo la cabeza hasta colocarla del derecho y parpadeó dos veces—. Me pregunto si ha perdido el juicio. ¡Las espadas pasaron de moda hace siglos!
~ Tony DiTerlizzi
The Apocalypse is not something out there that will eradicate everything on planet Earth. That would be far too simple. The Apocalypse is in each and every one of us. It takes courage to fight the beast.
~ Tori Amos
Could also be a werecougar," said Blue. "Or a werebear. Weretiger. WERESALAMANDER
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Any political analyst who didn't see this coming should find a different profession. After all, "starve the beast"—cut taxes on the rich, then use the resulting deficits as an excuse to hack away at the safety net—has been G.O.P. strategy for decades.
~ Paul Krugman
Some werewolves are hairy on the inside.
~ Stephen King, Danse Macabre
My anger is like some rudimentary, single-celled beast, an exploding virus of fury that paralyses rational thought and blinds me to everything except one single goal...
~ Candace Bushnell
one of the wolf-like beasts wraps it's arms around me and howls into my ear, obscuring all other sounds. I lash at the creature, trying to wriggle free, gathering my energy to fight back. before I can, the beasts laughs and says, Surely you recognise me.
~ Darren Shan
Trying to be anti-cool is just one exponent off trying to be cool -- it's the same beast.
~ David Foster Wallace
Hoatley - First Carnival Owner: Now this creature - There he is, THE GEEK! He has puzzled the foremost scientists of Europe and America. Is he the missing link? Is he man or beast? Some have pronounced him man. But beneath that shaggy mane of hair lies the brain of a beast.
~ Unknown
To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast!
~ William Shakespeare
Kingdoms are clay: our dungy earth alike Feeds beast as man.
~ William Shakespeare
Turn hell-hound, turn.
~ William Shakespeare
Villain, thou know'st nor law of God nor man: No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. RICHARD, DUKE OF GLOUCESTER: But I know none, and therefore am no beast. LADY ANNE: O wonderful, when devils tell the troth! RICHARD, DUKE OF GLOUCESTER: More wonderful, when angels are so angry.
~ William Shakespeare
Let Rome in Tiber melt and the wide arch / Of the ranged empire fall. Here is my space. / Kingdoms are clay; our dungy earth alike / Feeds beast as man.
~ William Shakespeare
Here, beast, you shall be the chairman, and mind you call us to order. He leaned forward and dropped the cat on the empty seat.
~ Winston Graham
They'll reenter their lives' cages, where love's tiger sometimes rages, but the beast's too tame to bite.   We'll
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
GÅ'upota jest bestiÄ… wyjÄ…tkowÄ…, takÄ… która nie mo?e gry??, gdy siÄ™ jÄ… ciÄ…gnie za ogon.
~ Witold Gombrowicz
we must not give way to a lust for plunder until the enemy is completely scattered. The man who's too quick to plunder is no longer a man. He turns himself into a beast of burden and ought to be treated like a traitor.
~ Xenophon
Chritians' experience of persecution and their consequent hostility to the Roman Empire found its most passionate expression in the pages of the Apocalypse. Rome is Babylon, the great mother of harlots, drunken with the blood of the Saints and the blood of the martyrs of Jesus, the Empire the kingdom of the Beast which seeks to destroy the Church.
~ Unknown
But she didn't want to rest! – Her blood ran through her more slowly, its pace domesticated, like a beast that had trained its steps to fit in its cage.
~ Clarice Lispector
For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.
~ Herman Melville