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Quotes About Hunted

My own favorite is something called Rogue Male.
~ Peter O'Toole
Lost in these imaginary illusions I forgot my destiny – that of the hunted.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
In the beginning we were a group of nine. Three are gone, dead. There are six of us left. They are hunting us, and they won't stop until they've killed us all. I am Number Four. I know that I am next.
~ Pittacus
Campbell surmised "a magical, wonderful accord" growing between the hunter and the hunted, as if they were locked in a "mystical, timeless" cycle of death, burial, and resurrection. Their art—the paintings on cave walls—and oral literature gave form to the impulse we now call religion.
~ Joseph Campbell
Sabiam que andavam a ser caçados e tentavam não se manter muito tempo no mesmo sítio. Mas o medo tornava-os descuidados. O medo tornava-os alvos fáceis.
~ Daniel Silva
As the Cherokee hunted and foraged in these mountains, they always stepped lightly, paying homage to the plants and animals that sustained them.
~ Raymond Bial
This law of capitalistic society would sound absurd to savages, or even civilised colonists. It calls to mind the boundless reproduction of animals individually weak and constantly hunted down.24
~ Karl Marx
will be the hunter and not the hunted.
~ David Lagercrantz
i will be the hunter, not the hunted. diana, not the stag. the arrow, not the bow.
~ Kate Atkinson
A human being who falls down reminds us of an animal we might have hunted and brought down ourselves. Every sudden fall which arouses laughter does so because it suggests helplessness and reminds us that the fallen can, if we want, be treated as prey. If we went further and actually ate it, we would not laugh. We laugh instead of eating it. Laughter is our physical reaction to the escape of potential food.
~ Elias Canetti
The typical modern has the look of the hunted.
~ Richard M. Weaver
the Aché were hunted and killed without mercy by Paraguayan farmers.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
I am sick of haunting myself from within like an old house. I would be happier as a hunted witch.
~ Erica Jong
To what purpose? I am a dead man. (To Cromwell) You have your desire of me. What you have hunted me for is not my actions, but the thoughts of my heart. It is a long road you have opened. For first men will disclaim their hearts and presently they will have no hearts. God help the people whose Statesmen walk your road.
~ Robert Bolt
you were both hunter and hunted; the shadow of your thoughts was the beast which killed you.
~ Robert Holdstock
These two races hunted each other, lived and died for each other, and, through ignorance or guile, ignored any relationship between each other. The relationship was utterly symbiotic, but completely unacknowledged by either race. In fact, each race pretended that it alone was a Civilized Intelligence, and that the other was bestial, contemptible, and of no account. And it now occured to both of themthat they were, in equal measure, participants in the general concept of Humanity.
~ Robert Sheckley
We were U.S. Marshals. We hunted and killed the monsters. We did not run from them
~ Laurell K. Hamilton.
The Mogadorian caught Number One in Malaysia, Number Two in England, And Number Three in Kenya. I am Number Four. I am next..." - I AM NUMBER FOUR
~ Pittacus Lore
Strike had always marvelled at the strange sanctity conferred upon celebrities by the public, even while the newspapers denigrated, hunted or hounded them. No matter how many famous people were convicted of rape or murder, still the belief persisted, almost pagan in its intensity: not him. It couldn't be him. He's famous.
~ Robert Galbraith
When I was asked to take part in 'Celebrity Hunted' I jumped at the chance, who wouldn't want to run wild around the U.K. for two weeks being chased by a top secret service type team, whilst raising money for a cause very close to my heart - cancer.
~ A. J. Pritchard
There will be hunters and hunted, winners and losers. What counts in global competition is the right strategy and success.
~ Heinrich von Pierer
One should never presume one is the sole object of a hunt
~ Frank Herbert
You can be the hunter, or you can be the hunted.
~ Lisa Gardner, The Neighbor
We're always on the side of the animal that's being chased. We always seem to be on the side of the rabbit or the fox and not on the side of the hounds.
~ Norman Jewison