All Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Quotes
- After a lifetime of affectionate regard for dogs and many years of close observation and reflection, I have reached the conclusion that dogs feel more… Affectionate
- Animals love and suffer, cry and laugh; their hearts rise up in anticipation and fall in despair...they feel. Animal
- Dogs never lie about love. Dog
- Animals are, like us, endangered species on an endangered planet, and we are the ones who are endangering them, it, and ourselves. They are innocent… Animal
- The curiosity of cats is, like their affection, of a purity and intensity rarely seen in humans. We would be jaded when faced with the… Affection
- What struck me whenever I visited a farm was how much more sophisticated was the life the animals were capable of living than was assumed… Almost Always
- Hardly any animal can look as deeply disappointed as a dog to whom one says "no." Animal
- Every time I told my cocker spaniel, Taffy, my very first dog, that we were going for a walk, she would launch into a celebratory… Any
- Many people have heard the remarkable example of devotion involving a Skye terrier dog who worked for a Scottish shepherd named Old Jock. In 1858,… Abbey
- Love for a dog during childhood is one of the deepest and purest emotions we are ever likely to have, and it remains with us… Childhood
- Questers of the truth, that’s who dogs are; seekers after the invisible scent of another being’s authentic core. Animal
- We might miss the sign or we may be unable to read the expression, but it is almost a contradiction in terms to say that… Contradiction
- Perhaps one central reason for loving dogs is that they take us away from this obsession with ourselves. When our thoughts start to go in… Away Wondering
- We need cats to need us. It unnerves us that they do not. However, if they do not need us, they nonetheless seem to love… Cat