Wild Beasts Quotes - Page 2

• Fear is a healthy instinct, not a sign of weakness. It is a natural self-defense mechanism that is common to felines, wolves, hyenas, and most humans. Even fruit bats know fear, and I salute them for it. If you think the world is weird now, imagine how weird it would be if wild beasts had no fear.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Thinking, Self, Healthy

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• The rest of the journey passed uneventfully, if you consider it uneventful to ride fifteen miles on horseback through rough country at night, frequently without benefit of roads, in company with kilted men armed to the teeth, and sharing a horse with a wounded man. At least we were not set upon by highwaymen, we encountered no wild beasts, and it didn't rain. By the standards I was becoming used to, it was quite dull.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Country, Horse, Rain

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.71, Dell

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• Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is better to be afraid than secure.

  George MacDonald

  Men, Should Have, Long

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more”, p.6403, e-artnow

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• This is the swamp as I see it, but what I can’t capture on canvas is you as I see you. No brush or paint will ever show the hero that you are. It will never be able to portray the sound of your voice when you whisper my name. The way my skin tingles when you touch me. The passion of you inside me. I love you, Talon. I know that I can’t keep you. No one can ever tame a wild beast. You have a job to do and so do I. I only hope that when you think of me, it’ll bring a smile to your face. Love always, Sunshine. (Sunshine's note)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Jobs, Love You, Hero

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “The Dark-Hunters”, p.934, Macmillan

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• Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.

  Ben Jonson

  Tyrants, Flattery, Beast

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.242

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• The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up, as it were, in a prison and in servitude, and having by accident got its liberty, not being accustomed to search for its food, and not knowing where to conceal itself, easily becomes the prey of the first who seeks to incarcerate it again.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Knowing

  "Discourses on Livy" by Niccolò Machiavelli, book 1, ch. 16, 1517.

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• Compatibility is weird. Love is confusing. Love is one wild beast.

  Charlyne Yi

  Love Is, Confusing, Beast

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• Let fire and the cross; let the crowds of wild beasts; let tearings ... let shatterings of the whole body; and let all the evil torments of the devil come upon me: only let me attain to Jesus Christ.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Jesus, Fire, Evil

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• The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Cities, Beast, Truest

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• May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs - let them come to me, provided only I make my way to Jesus Christ.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Jesus, Struggle, Fire

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• A wealth of knowledge is openly accessible in nature. Our ancestors knew this and embraced the natural cures found in the bosoms of the earth. Their classroom was nature. They studied the lessons to be learned from animals, knowing that much of human behavior can be explained by watching the wild beasts around us. Animals are constantly teaching us things about ourselves and the way of the universe, but most people are too blind to watch and listen.

  Suzy Kassem

  Teaching, Animal, Wealth Of Knowledge

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

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• The world powers established this filthy bacteria, the Zionist regime, which is lashing out at the nations in the region like a wild beast.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Insane, World, Bacteria

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• There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened civilized people.

  Mark Twain

  Party, Civilization, Differences

  Mark Twain (1869). “The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress”, p.275

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• When we act pugnaciously, and injuriously, and angrily, and rudely, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of the wild beasts. Well, the fact is that some of us are wild beasts of a larger size, while others are little animals, malignant and petty.

  Epictetus

  Anger, Animal, Levels

  Epictetus (1926). “Epictetus: the Discourses as reported by Arrian, the Manual, and fragments”

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• From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.

  Plato

  Children, Parenting, Beast

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• In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.

  Socrates

  Sleep, Men, Good Man

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• I am writing to all the Churches and I enjoin all, that I am dying willingly for God's sake, if only you do not prevent it. I beg you, do not do me an untimely kindness. Allow me to be eaten by the beasts, which are my way of reaching to God. I am God's wheat, and I am to be ground by the teeth of wild beasts, so that I may become the pure bread of Christ.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Kindness, Writing, Dying

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• I have not so great a struggle with my vices, great and numerous as they are, as I have with my impatience. My efforts are not absolutely useless; yet I have never been able to conquer this ferocious wild beast.

  John Calvin

  Struggle, Effort, Vices

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• The roar of the traffic, the passage of undifferentiated faces, this way and that way, drugs me into dreams; rubs the features from faces. People might walk through me. And what is this moment of time, this particular day in which I have found myself caught? The growl of traffic might be any uproar - forest trees or the roar of wild beasts. Time has whizzed back an inch or two on its reel; our short progress has been cancelled. I think also that our bodies are in truth naked. We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth; and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dream, Thinking, Two

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.691, Wordsworth Editions

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• The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

  David Hume

  Happiness, Lonely, Art

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.664, Delphi Classics

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• .. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.

  Aristotle

  Men, Law, Political

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• I love this word decadence, all shimmering in purple and gold. It suggests the subtle thoughts of ultimate civilization, a high literary culture, a soul capable of intense pleasures. It throws off bursts of fire and the sparkle of precious stones. It is redolent of the rouge of courtesans, the games of the circus, the panting of the gladiators, the spring of wild beasts, the consuming in flames of races exhausted by their capacity for sensation, as the tramp of an invading army sounds.

  Paul Verlaine

  Spring, Army, Fire

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• I honestly believe that the doctrine of hell was born in the glittering eyes
  of snakes that run in frightful coils watching for their prey. I believe
  it was born with the yelping, howling, growling and snarling of wild beasts...
  I despise it, I defy it, and I hate it.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Running, Hate, Believe

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1906). “Famous Speeches, Complete ...”

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• War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against one other.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Peace, Military, War

  Attributed to Thomas Carlyle in "Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty", essay by Emma Goldman, chapter five of Anarchism and Other Essays, 1911.

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• I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfully.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Men, Firsts, Beast

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys & A Sequel - Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out (Children’s Classics Series – Illustrated Edition)”, p.354, e-artnow

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