Animals Quote by Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël

“Becoming aware of the intense suffering of billions of animals, and of our own participation in that suffering, can bring up painful emotions: sorrow…

— Melanie Joy

We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them.

— Samuel Johnson

“As sentimentality towards animals can be overindulged, so, too, can grim realism, seeing only the things we want in animals and not the animals…

— Matthew Scully

“People seem to deny the existence of animal emotions so that they can continue to justify inhumane treatment and exploitation and avoid the fact…

— Stacey O'Brien

“The animals feel that this urgency is mutual. Their own suffering has made them aware of human suffering. More frequent contact with us has…

— Linda Bender

Animals too experience sorrow, love, anger and other emotions.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

“Man, the bravest of animals, and the one most accustomed to suffering, does not repudiate suffering as such; he desires it, he even seeks…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“People thought up the idea that animals don't have the same capability of suffering as humans, because otherwise they couldn't bear the knowledge that…

— Milan Kundera

“Wild animals run from the dangers they actually see, and once they have escaped them worry no more. We however are tormented alike by…

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Still, it is surely true of all animals, and all conscious people, that the pain we inflict on each other is in some ways…

— Liz Stephens

“Animals' pain and pleasure are akin to yours and mine, and their will to live is just as strong.”

— Anonymous

“Wild creatures' eyes, the colonel said, Are innocent and fathomless And when I look at them I see That they are not aware of…

— Stevie Smith