Cruelty Quote by Christopher Isherwood

“Love the animals: God gave them the rudiments of thought and an untroubled joy.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“His games have a deeper meaning and fascination that adults can no longer fathom and require nothing more than three pebbles, or a piece…

— Thomas Mann

“I was especially fond of animals, and was indulged by my parents with a great variety of pets. With these I spent most of…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Children were in fact ferocious little animals, sharp and canny and hurt and eager to inflict hurt themselves, who were trying to get what…

— Pamela Erens

“Man ain’t happy till he kills everything in his path and cuts down everything that grows. He sees something wild and beautiful and wants…

— Neil Gaiman

“He wanted to roar like a lion on a cement floor. And bellow like a polar bear with yellow fur worn down to pink…

— Adam Nevill

“(’No animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.’)”

— Jonathan Glover

“The years fell away from him till, in an instant, from being a rather poorly preserved, liverish greybeard of sixty-five or so, he became…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“George sat on his porch, and drank his Coke and made daydreams out of the rain. He wondered about the book he would write…

— Matt Ruff

“There was a merciless gnawing in my chest, a queer silent labor was going on in there. I pictured a score of nice teeny-weeny…

— Knut Hamsun

“God appeases our animal fears and the unbearable prospect that someday all our pleasures will cease.”

— Muriel Barbery

“At times he heard within him a soft, gentle voice, which reminded him quietly, complained quietly, so that he could hardly hear it. Then…

— Hesse, Hermann