The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself. —Mark Twain More about this quote Tags: loneliness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in. —Margaret Cho More about this quote Tags: loneliness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To be an adult is to be alone. —Jean Rostand More about this quote Tags: loneliness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing? —Epictetus More about this quote Tags: loneliness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. —Dag Hammarskjöld More about this quote Tags: loneliness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight. —Albert Schweitzer More about this quote Tags: fear suffering consideration Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Animals have two functions in today's society: to be delicious and to fit well. —Greg Proops More about this quote Tags: animals Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. —Mark Twain More about this quote Tags: perception man vanity impertinence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and "animals" is essential if we are to bend them to our will, wear them, eat them — without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret. —Carl Sagan More about this quote Tags: regret pain guilt animals humans Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: fear humans Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Do fur-bearing animals feel joy and fear and sadness and excruciating pain and a sense of loss precisely as human beings do? I knew the answer, had known it all along but hidden it from myself. Yet a boy who spends his time wandering the woods — isn't he expected to bring something back, to justify his wanderings? —Bill Hotchkiss More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem. —Edward Abbey More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The more we learn of the true nature of nonhuman animals, especially those with complex brains and corresponding complex social behavior, the more ethical concerns are raised regarding their use in the service of man — whether this be in entertainment, as "pets," for food, in research laboratories, or any of the other uses to which we subject them. —Jane Goodall More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men. —Alice Walker More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The question is not "Can they reason?" Nor "Can they talk?" But "Can they suffer? —Jeremy Bentham More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email