Savage Quotes

“It was a strange monster, for beneath its exterior it was frightened and sickened by its own violence. It chastised itself for its savagery. And sometimes it had no heart for violence and rebelled against it utterly.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“Civilize The Mind, But Make Savage The Body.”
― Ancient Chinese Proverb

“When this is done, Jerkface, I will hold your tarnished and melted pin up as my trophy as your smoldering ship marks your pyre, and the final resting place of your crushed and broken corpse!"
- Spensa, pg. 64”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skyward

“Would thou wert clean enough to spit upon!”
― William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens

“This was not going to be a peaceful day. No. It was going to be a mess.”
― Andri E. Elia, Yildun: Worldmaker of Yand

“It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we know that the grafting art implants a new tree on the savage stock, producing what is most estimable in kind and degree. Education, in like manner, engrafts a new man on the native stock, and improves what in his nature was vicious and perverse into qualities of virtue and social worth.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“A man cannot destroy the savage in him by denying its impulses. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde / Juggernaut

“...how's your leg?”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Wisdom of Crowds

“But when I hear other kinds of discussion, especially the talk of rich businessmen like you, I get bored and feel sorry for you and your friends, because you think you're doing something important, when your're not. Perhaps you regard me as a failure, and I think you're right. But I don't THINK you're a failure, I KNOW you are.”
― Plato, The Symposium

“I can set this world on a fire and still can call it a rain.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“But when I hear other kinds of discussion, especially the talk of rich businessmen like you, I get bored and feel sorry for you and your friends, because you think you're doing something important, when you're not. Perhaps you regard me as a failure, and I think you're right. But I don't THINK you're a failure, I KNOW you are.”
― Plato, The Symposium

“Social Media will come to you and start putting ideas in your head to do something you might regret. They will tell you that they will support you and they will be with you all the way. When is time to face the music. To find your alone and when you look behind no one is there. They all logged off. Be careful , Don’t be fooled by the number of followers, retweets, likes or comments.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“I may not spare you," I said. "For I would rather spare all those who would come into contact with you, were you to be left alive.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry

“Lord Canterville: "I feat that the ghost exists . . . and always makes its appearance before the death of any member of our family."

Mr. Otis: "Well, so does the family doctor for that matter, Lord Canterville. But there is no such thing, sir, as a ghost, and I guess the laws of Nature are not going to be suspended for the British aristocracy.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

“If possible, I would still like to find this very thing called “a fuck”, but I can't be overly optimistic about it as It seems impossible right now.”
― Kei Kaiser

“Now there is this noteworthy difference between savage and civilized; that while a sick, civilized man may be six months convalescing, generally speaking, a sick savage is almost half-well again in a day. So in good time my Queequeg gained strength; and at length after sitting on the windlass for a few indolent days (but eating with a vigorous appetite) he suddenly leaped to his feet, threw out his arms and legs, gave himself a good stretching, yawned a little bit, and then springing into the head of his hoisted boat, and poising a harpoon, pronounced himself fit for a fight.”
― Herman Melville

“It was a stick-figure drawing. Two people holding hands. A thin man in black and a girl, half his height with short hair, and wide eyes. The stick-girl’s head was cocked slightly, and a small red spot marked her arm. Three similar spots, no bigger than periods, dotted the stick-man’s chest. The stick-man’s mouth was nothing more than a faint grim line.
Beneath the drawing ran a single sentence: I made a friend.
Victor.

“You okay?”
Eli blinked, felt the cop’s hand on his arm. He slid free, folded the paper, and put it in his pocket before anyone could see or say otherwise…Eli went back the way he’d come. He didn’t stop, not until he was safely in his car. In the relative privacy of the side street in Merit, he pressed his hand against the drawing in his pocket, and a phantom pain started in his stomach.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vicious

“The hard days reveal for you the souls of three kinds of human beings, loyal enemies, savages.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another toward a primitive rank and savage one, and I reverence them both. I love the wild not less than the good. As long as possible live free and uncommitted.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“Before I die, I have my enemies to punish and, who knows? – perhaps a few friends to reward.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“When People Ask You,
Who You Are?
Don't Tell Them,
Show Them.”
― Ravevx

“Hell yeah, we’re supposed to like the Beast. In fact, I didn’t understand my reaction to the Beast as a little girl—the tingle he provoked on my skin and between my legs. But now, looking back, I understand that movie was my first foray into porn.”
― Lauren Rowe, Falling Into Love with You

“I will minimize your place in my life till your absence is no longer an issue.”
― Samantha King Holmes, We Hope This Reaches You in Time

“Johann grinned. "Right. So what's the prognosis, sweetheart?”
― Jennifer Giesbrecht, The Monster of Elendhaven

“Shrovetides, May Days, Carnivals - these permitted a direct experience of the animal otherness underlying personal and social identity.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception / Heaven and Hell

“If that person, whose attention you are dying for, neglects you totally, there can be nothing more torturous than this. It can frustrate you to a level, that may turn you into a savage or a saint.”
― Ravi Ranjan Goswami

“But in the mood d1sorders, uni- and bipolar, we see a return to more primitive, primary process ruminating without the loss of adult cognitive rules. Major depression is a return to a primitive hibernation state without the wholesale collapse in logical processes that we see in schizophrenia. It shifts the usual thought pattern from secondary to primary process thinking, the embattled autopilot of the past six million years or so. If happiness is a modern invention, depressives return to the affective state of the hibernating cave dweller. Mania, on the other hand, is a desperate flight from dreaded depression and encapsulates the level of primitivity imposed by it.”
― Steven Lesk M.D., Footprints of Schizophrenia: The Evolutionary Roots of Mental Illness

“Dad taught me that people fear you when they can’t figure you out. They respect you, fawn over the merest hint of your attention, and grovel at the weight of your authority.”
― Rina Kent, God of War

“You may have lived longer than me, but I might have understood life far better than you.”
― aries__nia

“We are all born with the need to survive a world that seeks to kill us, every day. A place of savage motives.”
― Ram V., These Savage Shores