Animals Quote by Octavia E. Butler

“Animals, like people, did not ask to be who or what they were, and to make life difficult for others simply for being what…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“We were the creatures desired throughout the ages... foolish humans didn't even realize it, living in their own little world.”

— Kaylynne Spauls

“animals behaved with purpose, it seemed. Unlike people.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“...But living creatures are strange. They are made in such a way that they can actualize only what their minuscule minds wish for.”

— Sosuke Aizen

“I was a monster who killed and preyed on human life; I could never escape that, but at least I could choose what kind…

— Julie Kagawa

“Inside every poor creature was a sense of some other happy destiny, a destiny that was necessary and inevitable -why, then, did they find…

— Andrei Platonov

“The same beautiful bullshit that everyone told themselves. That they were special. That they mattered. That some vast intelligence behind the curtains of reality…

— James S.A. Corey

“In short, for me to live happily it was essential for the creatures I chose not to live at all. They must receive their…

— Albert Camus

“his species could end, a victim of people who valued themselves above other creatures of nature. We”

— Lea Wait

“That is what life meant, a unique presence, and it was essential in every creature.”

— David Malouf

“The living could not possibly understand what it felt like to be a monster. And the extremes to which a monster would go to…

— Maggie LaCroix

“I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain’d, I stand and look at them long and long.…

— Walt Whitman