Animals Quotes - Page 7

There are many reasons why so many of us choose to share our lives with a pet-it's the perfect antidote for loneliness, providing an endless supply of smiles and the certainty of unwavering companionship, and many of us have seen the way a pet can make a family feel whole.

Come morning, his memory would be of a night spent watching over them all. And each of them - dog and boy, mother and old man - would feel the same.

We hit and we kept on hitting; we were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful - little animals, clawing at what we needed.

It struck me that the beauty we attribute to children isn’t something they have that we don’t. It's something they do, which we have long since stopped doing - just describing things as we see them, the simple, unadorned facts.

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?

I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we've got to do it right. We've got to give those animals a decent life and we've got to give them a painless death. We owe the animal respect.

[T]here is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.

Maybe it's animalness that will make the world right again: the wisdom of elephants, the enthusiasm of canines, the grace of snakes, the mildness of anteaters. Perhaps being human needs some diluting. At any rate, how nice to be well dressed and among friends and in a state where poems pop out by themselves.

What separates man from animal is not the things we build or the ideas we stand behind. Its our ability to kill from a distance that makes us different

...there was a difference between killing for nourishment and killing for curiosity or sport.

The whole horror of the situation is that he now has a human heart, not a dog's heart. And about the rottenest heart in all creation!

If you believe that humans are animals, there can be no such thing as the history of humanity, only the lives of particular humans. If we speak of the history of the species at all, it is only to signify the unknowable sum of these lives. As with other animals, some lives are happy, others wretched. None has a meaning that lies beyond itself.

My life is flashing lights and pointing fingers and uninvited visitors. Inches away, humans flatten their little hands against the wall of glass that separates us.

The glass says you are this and we are that and that is how it will always be.

Some believe what separates men from animals is our ability to reason. Others say it’s language or romantic love, or opposable thumbs. Living here in this lost world, I’ve come to believe it is more than our biology. What truly makes us human is our unending search, our abiding desire for immortality.

It is just my imagination that flies,
While she is wrapped up in her bedsheets
like a nest.

Sometimes animals are more human than men and other times men are more animals than animals

People are like animals. Some are happiest penned in, some need to roam free. You go to recognize what's in her nature and accept it.

Most people would look at an animal in a cage and instinctively feel that it should be set free. . . . It's a dangerous world out there, filled with predators. . . . What would you prefer? A comfortable, safe, warm, cosy life in a cage, or an uncertain life of freedom.

Animals cannot have any high thoughts; nor can the Angels or Devas attain to direct freedom without human birth.