Animals Quote by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Wild beasts run away from dangers when they see them. Once they have escaped, they are free of anxiety. But we are tormented by…

— Donald J. Robertson

“Beasts avoid the dangers which they see, and when they have escaped them are free from care; but we men torment ourselves over that…

— Seneca

“When we accustom ourselves to see animals suffer, we in time overcome the natural repugnancy of the sense of anguish, we become less accessible…

— Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël

Sometimes animals may suffer more because of their more limited understanding. If, for instance, we are taking prisoners in wartime we can explain to…

— Peter Singer

“It seems improbable, unless one knows how obstinately, purposefully and unerringly any stricken animal will find its way to the same place where in…

— Georgi Vladimov

It is not only species of animal that die out, but whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity…

— John Fowles

“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

The life of a wild animal always has a tragic end.

— Ernest Thompson Seton

“Animals are unpredictable things so our whole life is unpredictable. It’s a long tale of little triumphs and disasters and you’ve got to really…

— James Herriot

“What don’t we realize is that we are a strange and forbidding species to wild animals. We fill them with fear. They avoid us…

— Yann Martel

An animal is not cruel; it lives wholly in the instant leap on its prey, in the present taste of marrow or blood. Cruelty…

— Storm Jameson