Animal Fate Quotes

Death by violence, death by cold, death by starvation - they are the normal endings of the stately creatures of the wilderness. The sentimentalists who prattle about the peaceful life of nature do not realize its utter mercilessness.

I dreamed: I am the fish whose flesh is eaten, and because I am fat, it is good.

Mice are everywhere at Westminster but many MPs, including me, did not report them because we were afraid of their possible fate.

The very people who shudder over the cruelty of the hunter are apt to forget that slaughter, in the grimmest sense of the word, is a process they entrust daily to the butcher; and that unlike the game of the forests, even the dumbest creatures of the slaughterhouse know what is in store for them.

The life of a wild animal always has a tragic end.

The animal kingdom is destined by nature to serve, and that service is fulfilled in alleviating the temporal and physical needs of man; the animal spirit or soul is limited by time - it dies with the body.

How strange a thing is death, bringing to his knees, bringing to his antlers The buck in the snow . . . Life, looking out attentive from the eyes of the doe.

Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.