“I adore the way nature reflects all of the sentient beings in our world.” — Robin S. Baker Copy Share Image
“We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“The natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Only where there is sentient life can there be feelings of pleasure and pain, sorrow or joy. — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
“My brain needs to be a sentient being that way it can say, "Nadiyah. NADIYAH!! I know where you're going with this… — Nadiyah Abdul-Khaliq Copy Share Image
Mammals are sentient beings that want to live and are afraid to die. Evolution vouchsafed us all with an instinct to survive,… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“There is no place which is not imbued with the Way. It pervades all things and all sentient beings.” — Ta-Mo Copy Share Image
This is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
You cannot commit an act of violence against a non-sentient object, only against a living thing. — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“Love with so much of yourself, none of the self is left; that you are a sentient being.” — Nicolenya Caltman Copy Share Image
“What makes you think human beings are sentient and aware? There’s no evidence for it. Human beings never think for themselves, they… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“Liir didn’t know what to say to that; he wasn’t sure what husbandry was. “Animal husbandry,” Trism explained, though in the noise… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
At this stage you must admit that whatever is seen to be sentient is nevertheless composed of atoms that are insentient. The… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Animals are sentient creatures. I love them very much. I do not feel that we have the right to torture, murder, and… — Davey Havok Copy Share Image
I wept heartily over this poor little deceased soul. It was the first sentient being I had ever killed. I was now… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“We’re not only sentient beings, governed by the pleasure and pain delivered by our senses; we are also rational beings, capable of… — Michael J. Sandel Copy Share Image
To say that a being who is sentient has no interest in continuing to live is like saying that a being with… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
“You look at the history of any sentient species and what do you find but tableaux of violence and slaughter. It’s finger-painted… — James Luceno Copy Share Image
“To say that a sentient being is not harmed by death denies that the being has the very interest that sentience serves… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
“Memories of bright and colorful worlds swirl together. The one thing in common is the brown mud on my boots. Slogging through… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“Is Lavos a selfish conqueror of the world, or a planetary farmer simply following its instincts? How sentient is Lavos, and if… — Michael P. Williams Copy Share Image
Though we may be genetically wired for temporary happiness, we've also been gifted with the ability to recognize within ourselves a more… — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“How can you humans actually believe yourselves superior to any truly sentient being? Look at you - self-styled demigods, mired in your… — Camille Anthony Copy Share Image
“Every sentient creature on this earth, when it falls into want, poverty and misfortune, usually cleaves to his own. Because it’s easier… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
“humans,’ Zoltan Chivay said grimly. ‘Every sentient creature on this earth, when it falls into want, poverty and misfortune, usually cleaves to… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
That machines will surpass us in intelligence is inevitable. What it means is unknowable. Will they be sentient? What will they care… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“What makes you think human beings are sentient and aware? There's no evidence for it. Human beings never think for themselves, they… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“All of you do this. Every organic sapient I’ve ever talked to, every book I’ve read, every piece of art I’ve studied.… — Becky Chambers Copy Share Image
“Sentience is not an end in itself. It is a means to the end of staying alive. Sentient beings use sensations of… — Francione, Gary L Copy Share Image
The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale. — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“He said that the world was sentient to its core and secret and black beyond men's imagining and that its nature did… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Belly laughs are one of the best things about being sentient, and you should never miss a chance for one.” — Dennis E. Taylor Copy Share Image
I realized that all animals, not just dogs and cats and horses, were sentient beings; therefore, I just couldn't say I love… — William McNamara Copy Share Image