Dog Quote by Meriwether Lewis

We devolve into animals when we creep near to death.

— Hugh Howey

Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul…

— L. Neil Smith

There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on…

— Pindar

As a species we're fundamentally insane.

— Stephen King

It is astonishing how the human animal survives its misfortunes.

— Rebecca West

It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats.

— William Penn

We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison.

— Anonymous

Animals do feel like us, also joy, love, fear and pain but they cannot grasp the spoken word. It is our obligation to take…

— Denis de Rougemont

“The first glance at the pillow showed me a repulsive sentinel perched upon each end of it--cockroaches as large as peach leaves--fellows with long,…

— Mark Twain

So often the monsters that crowd our minds are nothing more than the strange and thoroughly alien progeny of our own fearful fantasies.

— Rick Yancey

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

— Muriel Barbery

Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of those who mutilate the flesh!

— Paul the Apostle