Reproduce Quotes

“What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“We are aberrations—beings born undead, neither one thing nor another, or two things at once … uncanny things that have nothing to do with the rest of creation, horrors that poison the world by sowing our madness everywhere we go, glutting daylight and darkness with incorporeal obscenities. From across an immeasurable divide, we brought the supernatural into all that is manifest. Like a faint haze it floats around us. We keep company with ghosts. Their graves are marked in our minds, and they will never be disinterred from the cemeteries of our remembrance. Our heartbeats are numbered, our steps counted. Even as we survive and reproduce, we know ourselves to be dying in a dark corner of infinity. Wherever we go, we know not what expects our arrival but only that it is there.”
― Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

“The human population would probably be way less than a thousand, if ejaculation were not usually accompanied by an orgasm.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Most women sell sex; most of them just don’t take cash (nor do they each sell to more than one ‘client’ at a time).”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“If human pleasure did not have both a lid and a time limit, we would not bestir ourselves to do things that were not pleasurable, such as toiling for our subsistence. And then we would not survive. By the same token, should our mass mind ever become discontented with the restricted pleasures doled out by nature, as well as disgruntled over the lack of restrictions on pain, we would omit the mandates of survival from our lives out of a stratospherically acerbic indignation. And then we would not reproduce. As a species, we do not shout into the sky, “The pleasures of this world are not enough for us.” In fact, they are just enough to drive us on like oxen pulling a cart full of our calves, which in their turn will put on the yoke. As inordinately evolved beings, though, we can postulate that it will not always be this way. “A time will come,” we say to ourselves, “when we will unmake this world in which we are battered between long burden and brief delight, and will live in pleasure for all our days.” The belief in the possibility of long-lasting, high-flown pleasures is a deceptive but adaptive flimflam. It seems that nature did not make us to feel too good for too long, which would be no good for the survival of the species, but only to feel good enough for long enough to keep us from complaining that we do not feel good all the time.”
― Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

“To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human beings, because they—unlike all companies—have the means of reproduction.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

“Most people who are would each not be in love with their partner, if they did not have the kind of genitals they have.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Most men overestimate themselves. It’s the only way they can reproduce. It’s why we’re all here, us humans. Overestimation.”
― Victor Robert Lee, Performance Anomalies

“There would definitely be way fewer instances of cheating, if the average couple did not have sex only when the woman feels like it.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Many millions of pregnancies—many if not most of which have each led to the birth of at least one child—were each used as nothing but a conspicuous means to a secret end called the evasion of abortion.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

“I decided that in spite of my silence I would demonstrate and reproduce in reality the picture of the church that I saw inside my spirit”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Far too often I attempt to create that which God has already created. And maybe what I need to ‘create’ is the understanding that I will always fail to outdo what God has already done.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Parents who call their children beasts have indirectly answered same because living things reproduce according to their kind.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“We cannot look at the past or the future except by means of the imagination but again the imagination of backward glances is one thing and the imagination of looks ahead something else. Even the psychologists concede this present particular, for, with them, memory involves a reproductive power, and looks ahead involve a creative power: the power of our expectations.”
― Wallace Stevens, The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination

“When robots reproduce, man will become the midwife in his own society.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Newspapers thrive on attention. They reproduce on daily attention. The next day they only exist because we gave them attention the day previously.”
― Ryan Gelpke, 2017: Our Summer of Reunions: Braai Seasons with Howl Gang (Howl Gang Legend)

“The actress playing Celia could ask why God had ever put her on earth.
And then the voice from the back of the theater could rumble: "To reproduce. Nothing else really interests Me. All the rest is frippery.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Deadeye Dick