Animal Love Quotes

It's the false moral component behind blind animal love that so frosts me. The faulty logic that believes that the capacity to adore a nonhuman creature is somehow a purer form of love. ~ David Rakoff

If you claim to 'love' animals but you eat animal products, you need to think critically about how you understand love. ~ Gary L. Francione

I think there is just a vein of humanity that really loves animals and really loves to read about them. ~ Sara Gruen

No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink. ~ Murray Banks

But it's compounded by the fact that I love animals and feel better not eating them. ~ Kristen Bell

'Born Free' was the first film I ever saw. I just fell in love with the idea of people having that bond with a wild animal. ~ Martin Clunes

I've always been an animal lover my entire life. ~ Jillian Hervey

The Aztec gods and goddesses are, as far as we have known anything about them, an unlovely and unlovable lot. In their myths there is no grace or charm, no poetry. Only this perpetual grudge, grudge, grudging, one god grudging another, the gods grudging men their existence, and men grudging the animals. The goddess of love is goddess of dirt and prostitution, a dirt-eater, a horror, without a touch of tenderness ... ~ D.H. Lawrence

Animal lovers often tend to be misanthropes or loners, and so they transfer their affection to the creature in their control. ~ Paul Theroux

A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal. ~ Chief Joseph

My reason for becoming a vegetarian was simple: I loved (and love) animals ~ Moby

The moles nested in my cellar, nibbling every third potato, and making a snug bed even there of some hair left after plastering and of brown paper; for even the wildest animals love comfort and warmth as well as man, and they survive the winter only because they are so careful to secure them. ~ Henry David Thoreau

I love animals. When I was young, I had two St. Bernards, I still have a dog, I have a lot of cats in my company. My wife always says, "You spend a lot of money on animals. More than even me!" ~ Jackie Chan

If you love animals but think that veganism is extreme, then you are confused about the meaning of love. ~ Gary L. Francione

I love animals. With animals you never know what you're getting. Everybody says don't mess with animals and little kids in movies but those are the funniest things because you can't be in control. I like to lose control as a director. ~ David Gordon Green

Sex is animal, love is human, compassion is divine. Sex is physical, love is psychological, compassion is spiritual. ~ Osho

I really love animals and enjoy working with them. ~ Emma Watson

You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals. ~ Paul McCartney

I love animals and feel very strongly that people should not be allowed to buy a pet if they are not able to look after it. ~ Kirsty Gallacher

[My work] includes something about death, and about love, because the photos always have something to do with death. The photograph is like taxidermy. It is like the animals I use. They are posed in order to appear to be alive, but they are dead. Their time has passed. The photos have to do with time and loss, and conclusion. ~ Annette Messager

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.

They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth. ~ Walt Whitman

Just for a few tiny buds on your tongue you are killing live animals, with no sensitivity, with no awareness, with no love. It seems impossible; how can a man who has known love be capable of doing such things? A man who loves his wife, who loves his children goes on eating meat? Impossible. ~ Rajneesh

I am a very strict vegetarian ... I just really, really love animals, and I act on my values. ~ Natalie Portman

Those that would say Satanist would like to kill animal's, sacrifice animals I would say they would make ideal animal sacrifices, I love animals and animals have always been part of me. ~ Anton Szandor LaVey

Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent. Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you - alas, it is true of almost every one of us! ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

We must love animals in such a powerful way that we should reject to eat them! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

I became a vegetarian at 15. I was always an animal lover and, as a teenager, became increasingly uncomfortable with the idea of eating meat. It was then that I started to research vegetarianism. ~ Laura Mennell

If you love animals, don't eat them. ~ Bryan Adams

I love animals to the extent that my home is my dog's home! Which means that nothing is too good for my Freckles-chairs, couches, beds. But I do draw the line on chipmunks nibbling at my table linens, bedding, blankets, etc. ~ Kate Smith

You can't not love animals, I can't not. It doesn't matter what the animal is. ~ Noel Fisher

If you're going to love animals and have a life with them, the odds are you're going to lose them. It's helpful when you get a dog to accept the fact that this dog is not going to be with you your whole life. ~ Jon Katz

You like the Earth, Man, and you - pawing the ground - think of God, the little nursling will recognize you, and will think of you with love, because God lives even in it also. Give nourishment to the developing little creatures, either to plant or to animal, and it will develop for your sweet amazement. Give food for the wild animal starving, and it will slick to you. ~ Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary

Love is the problem of an animal ... ~ Ernest Becker

I really want a pet, and I really love animals. ~ Aurora Aksnes

Animals are just pure, uncomplicated entities of creation from God. They live like the Maasai do in Kenya-for each day is forever to them and the "Now" is what they live in. You can get aggravated with your pets and yell at them, but in a matter of minutes they are licking your hand again in love. ~ Sylvia Browne

I love animals because all they really want from you is love. Too bad that's even too much to ask for from some people. ~ Michael Jackson

All things are connected, like the blood that runs in your family "The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father." 1854 The rivers are our brothers. They quench our thirst. They carry our canoes and feed our children. You must give to the rivers the kindness you would give to any brother. ~ Chief Seattle

My main message to folks who love animals is that you can do something every day to help them. ~ Alison Eastwood

I've always been an animal lover. I've grown up with dogs my whole life. I think that is what helped me get the role on 'Lassie', I was comfortable around the dog, where many of the kids were afraid or intimidated by Lassie. ~ Will Estes

True love is really animal. ~ Ray Davies

The Humane Society is so great to work with. Because everyone there is so nice and supportive, and they're all animal lovers like me. ~ Bella Thorne

I think every pet lover has an appreciation for nature - I've never met an animal lover who didn't have some kind of connection to the natural world. ~ Glenn Close

I love animals, and not only do I get to help animals in need, I learn a lot too! ~ Matthew Moy

I just love dogs, and there really is no better companion than an animal. ~ Rita Rudner

I've never known love
that wasn't an animal waiting to devour. ~ Danabelle Gutierrez

The very things that I would love about Barack and that you would love about Barack is that he is one of us. He's a normal guy. He's not a political animal. ~ Enrico Letta

I'm the best animal lover in the world. There's nobody who takes care of their pets like me ... they are my children. ~ Paris Hilton

When one loves animals and children too much, one loves them against human beings. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

If you respect or love animals you could never eat them. It's that simple ~ Steven Morrissey

And it is exceedingly short, his galloping life. Dogs die so soon. I have my stories of that grief, no doubt many of you do also. It is almost a failure of will, a failure of love, to let them grow old - or so it feels. We would do anything to keep them with us, and to keep them young. The one gift we cannot give. ~ Mary Oliver

We often ask, why is it that we can love animals so readily and simply? It is because it is almost impossible to get angry at them, they cannot disappoint or offend; in their spontaneity, they are very much like small, helpless children, harmless, sincere. Above all, when their survival depends on man's care, they become touchingly and actually inhumanly loyal. ~ Stanka Gjurić

When we love animals and children too much, we love them at the expense of men. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

As an animal lover and as a sometime-meat-eater, I've read so much about the emotional sophistication of pigs and cows and sheep that I do think twice when I do still eat them on occasion. ~ Bryan Fuller

I love animals. They give so much to you and demand so little. And you can trust them. ~ Olivia Newton-John

She was carrying two coffees and a donut bag,
and right then and there, he fell in love.
-Animal Magnetism ~ Jill Shalvis

Mostly, I just think Mr. P is a lonely old man who used to be a lonely young man. And for some reason I don't understand, lonely white people love to hang around lonelier Indians. ~ Sherman Alexie

I love it when you quote me. ~ Leigh Bardugo

If a person does not emerge from incestuous attachment to mother, clan, nation, if he retains the childish dependence on a punishing and rewarding father, or any other authority, he cannot develop a more mature love for God; then his religion is that of the earlier phase of religion, in which God was experienced as an all-protective mother or a punishing rewarding father. In ~ Erich Fromm

Contrary to the common misconception that loving yourself equates to being self-absorbed and lacking empathy or consideration for others, the true meaning of self-love is about caring, respecting and knowing yourself, taking responsibility for your life, and ultimately, your happiness. ~ Miya Yamanouchi

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol. ~ Taylor Swift

I really think that technology has the greatest potential to accelerate happiness of most things in the world. The companies that will ultimately do well are the companies that chase happiness. If you find a way to help people find love, or health or friendship, the dollar will chase that. ~ Ashton Kutcher

I love bayou life. ~ Parker Posey

You feel your strength in the experience of pain. ~ Jim Morrison

Many people can't deal with unanswered questions, which religion exploits by providing answers, even if they are just made up by someone. This is also why we love TV shows and movies that neatly wrap up everything in exactly an hour or two. ~ Bill Maher

If Fran Lebowitz and Ian Fleming had blessed the world with a love child it would have been author J. Fields Jr. ~ Edward Medina

It's always been you and me, James. That's why I can't kill you, and you can't kill me. Because even if it means the end of the world, I love you too much. ~ Cristin Terrill

Falling in love, although it resulted in altered body chemistry and was therefore real, was a hormonally induced delusional state, according to him. In addition it was humiliating, because it put you at a disadvantage, it gave the love object too much power. As for sex per se, it lacked both challenge and novelty, and was on the whole a deeply imperfect solution to the problem of intergenerational genetic transfer. ~ Margaret Atwood

I weirdly do consider myself an optimist about love. ~ Aziz Ansari

Life's already a gamble. Don't let love be one, too. ~ Max Hawthorne

I always dread the process of writing because I'm not a writer. I'm an audible guy, I'm a verbal guy. I love to talk. I write a book every couple years, but it just takes everything out of me to get a book out. ~ T.C. Boyle

We had no one else to learn this from- none of our parents were shining examples of relationship success- so we learned this from each other: when someone you love needs you to, you can get a hold of your five-alarm temper, get a hold of the shapeless things that scare you senseless, act like an adult instead of the Cro-Magnon teenager you are, you can do a million things you never saw coming. ~ Tana French

This will not be a meeting of finger-pointing and blame. Neither one of you can really relate to the other since you haven't lived each other's lives. Rhoda, Kathryn has made her decision, and now it's up to her family to be supportive of her and Kyle and Lois. We need to put our opinions aside and love each other. ~ Alane G. Mills

No one can mark the exact moment at which friendship becomes love. ~ C.S. Lewis

The mirror of the heart must be clear, so you can discern the ugly from the beautiful. ~ Rumi

At times he swears that he's going to go straight, but mostly he feels like a drowning man in love with the surf. ~ A.S.A Harrison

He pulled me closer until his lips breathed me in, until we were sharing one breath. ~ Heather Anastasiu

To all who suffer- to all who feel discouraged, worried, or lonely- I say with love and deep concern for you, never give in. Never surrender. Never allow despair to overcome your spirit. Embrace and rely upon the Hope of Israel, for the love of the Son of God pierces all darkness, softens all sorrow, and gladdens every heart. ~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf

I love meeting people, and I know it's so difficult for people to come up to me and introduce themselves, so when they do, I'll grab them and hug them. It makes their day, you know? I love that, and I get positive energy from that. ~ Nicola Formichetti

One thing concerns me a little, nick has a girlfriend, right? Well, how do you think she'll feel about all of this? He probed. He had this look on his face that he always had when I'm doing something a little bit naughty. You know, something you can get away with, but it's still a bit dodgy. ~ Jessica Thompson

We love you. If you need help, look for my parents - they're using the names Della and Jim Goodkind - and tell them I sent you. ~ Alexandra Bracken

I love to play games. Anything that is competitive. I love to play darts, shoot pool, any video game or board game, anything like that I am all about. For me is more about spending time with somebody, hanging out and enjoying yourself. ~ Casey James

Consider God's love for you. Now double it. Now multiply that by 900 trillion. You're still not even close. ~ Mark Hart

When we love something, emotion often drives our actions.
This is the gift and the challenge entrepreneurs face every day. The companies we dream of and build from scratch are part of us and intensely personal. They are our families. Our lives.
But the entrepreneurial journey is not for everyone. Yes, the highs are high and the rewards can be thrilling. But the lows can break your heart. Entrepreneurs must love what they do to such a degree that doing it is worth sacrifice and, at times, pain. But doing anything else, we think, would be unimaginable ~ Howard Schultz

The sky is a riot of stars, and his smile is full of catastrophe. The night belongs to us. He belongs to me. ~ Kristina Mahr

Back in bed I listen to every sound. The plastic tarp over the table on the balcony crunching in the cold wind. the two short clicks in the walls before the heat comes on with a low whoosh. I hear a constant base hum all around, the nervous system of the building, carrying electricity and gas and phone conversations to all our respective little boxes. I listen to it all, the constant, the rhythmic, and the random. It's hard to measure the night by sound, but it can be done. I know that when the traffic noise is quietest, it's about 4:30 in the morning. I know that when the 'Times' hits the door, it's around 5. Now the clock says it's morning, 5:45, but the November sky still says midnight. I hear the elevator ding twenty yards down the hall outside our door. Seven seconds later, I hear his keys in our lock, then his heavy backpack hitting the floor. I hear the refrigerator door open, the unsealing vacuum wheezing as the cold inside air meets the dry heat in the apartment. The cupboard door. A glass. The crescendoing fizz of a new two-liter Diet Coke bottle opening. It's a one-sided conversation with no one actually talking. I lie in the dark, close my eyes, and try not to listen to his movements around apartment. these are the sounds of our life together before it got so messy. I want to say something back. Anything, anything that sounds like things sounded last summer. Even just to myself. Just something out loud.
The inside of my eyelids turn pink. My door has been op ~ Josh Kilmer-Purcell

I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four ... ~ Judy Blume

He was foolish enough to fall completely in love with someone who didn't think he had a heart. ~ H.M. Ward

Dear Aster,
One fine morning, I will get up to notice my face in wrinkles and furrows. My hair will be scattered all over the pillow; most of them will be grey without a doubt. The spring of youth will have made way for my final years, and I'll no longer be able to walk swiftly. My voice will tremble as a result of impairment; it will get hard for me to read words and things will get no better until I close my eyes forever.
I'll spend every minute terrorized, unwilling to end this beautiful journey of being in this world. However, I'll cheerfully accept this truth of life, if you hold my hand, and promise to walk with me, until we breathe. Because no matter how ugly both of us look seventy years or a million years from now, I'll take you in my arms with the same devotion that I'll do it for the very first time.
Charlie. ~ Keshav Aneel

I love to design. I am a commercial fashion designer. I always design jackets with two sleeves. I don't design jackets with three sleeves, or the layers and layers come off like little dolls from Russia. Fashion for me is a creative endeavor, but it is not art for me. ~ Tom Ford

Let's get into talking about how autism is similar animal behavior. The thing is I don't think in a language, and animals don't think in a language. It's sensory based thinking, thinking in pictures, thinking in smells, thinking in touches. It's putting these sensory based memories into categories. ~ Temple Grandin

Ennis was back on his feet and somehow, as a coat hanger is straightened to open a locked car and then bent again to its original shape, they torqued things almost to where they had been, for what they'd said was no news. Nothing ended, nothing began, nothing resolved. ~ Annie Proulx

God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, life, Truth, Love. ~ Mary Baker Eddy

Gina Rodgers raised her hand, triggering a class-wide bristle. Everyone wanted to impress Mr. Tipton, but it was Gina who always raised her hand first, like he was going to fall in love with her for her 4.3 GPA or something. ~ Mira Jacob

Traffic's not too bad on Sheridan, and I'm cornering the car like it's the Indy 500, and we're listening to my favorite NMH song, "Holland, 1945," and then onto Lake Shore Drive, the waves of Lake Michigan crashing against the boulders by the Drive, the windows cracked to get the car to defrost, the dirty, bracing, cold air rushing in, and I love the way Chicago smells - Chicago is brackish lake water and soot and sweat and grease and I love it, and I love this song, and Tiny's saying I love this song, and he's got the visor down so he can muss up his hair a little more expertly. ~ John Green

He went up to his room and sat down at the desk to write the hardest note he'd ever written in his life. He tore up four attempts before he was happy with what he'd written. It was short and to the point.

"You mean everything to me."

I ~ Michelle Frost

Breathe in, breath out. Oxygen is carcinogenic and likely puts a limit on our life span. It would be unwise though, to try to extend life by not breathing at all.
Which of us doesn't do it? Either we loll in anaerobic stupor, too afraid to fill our lungs with risky beauty, or we roll out fire like dragons, destroying the world we love.
I try not to burn up my world with rage.
It is so hard. ~ Jeanette Winterson