Animal Quote by W. G. Sebald Download Open image “Men and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension.” — W. G. Sebald ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Animal Animals Funny Incomprehension Men Mutual Regard
The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Sometimes two people will regard each other over a gulf too wide to ever be bridged, and know immediately what could have happened, and… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“When men cannot communicate their thoughts to each other, simply because of difference of language, all the similarity of their common human nature is… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
In conditions of uncertainty, humans, like other animals, herd together for protection. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
It is heartbreaking to see so many animals in distress through the Gulf Coast region. Many of them are frightened, confused, hungry, dehydrated and… — Doris Day Copy Share Image
When a man tries to communicate with an animal, there's a relationship between them, and you generally find this between the dog and his… — David Seltzer Copy Share Image
“In other words, the animals are not similar to the man — in the way that the woman will be. The animals are certainly… — James V. Brownson Copy Share Image
...In little more than a single century from 1820 to 19450, no less than fifty-nine million human animals were killed in inter-group clashes of… — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find… — Gilbert Parker Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in photographs, collecting them not systematically but randomly. They get lost, then turn up again. — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
“In the warmer months of the year one or other of those nocturnal insects quite often strays indoors from the small garden behind my… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
“It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
When I was a boy, I'd hide under the kitchen table and wind string around the chairs. I have a sense now that I… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know the point… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
I came from anonymity, and I will continue to write as a private pursuit. — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
I don't want to talk about my trials and tribulations. Once you reveal even part of what your real problems might be in life,… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Mine is a European imagination, shaped largely by my very promiscuous reading in German, French, English and, with greater difficulty, Italian. — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Places seem to me to have some kind of memory, in that they activate memory in those who look at them. — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
It must be extremely uncomfortable to live with a writer - all that preoccupation and brooding. — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I'm 38 and I'm single, and I'm having my most intense and gratifying relationship with a dog. But we all learn about love in… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
Practically all animals which move fast in a homogeneous medium have found means of giving their body a streamlined shape, thereby reducing friction to… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
“it is a federal system of sadistic torture, vivisection, and animal genocide, which has been carried on for decades under the fraudulent guise of… — Michael Tobias Copy Share Image
“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
We must love animals in such a powerful way that we should reject to eat them! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
