Top 25 Jeffrey Masson Quotes
#4. Animals love and suffer, cry and laugh; their hearts rise up in anticipation and fall in despair ... they feel.
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
#5. (about cats) They also resist our calls to come, to move, to obey, to present themselves, to do all the things that dogs do so easily. This drives some people crazy. Cats do not even care what drives us crazy!
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
#6. After a lifetime of affectionate regard for dogs and many years of close observation and reflection, I have reached the conclusion that dogs feel more than I do (I am not prepared to speak for other people). They feel more, and they feel more purely and more intensely.
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
#8. Then in a great crash they threw themselves to the floor, ears flopped down, the whites of their eyes showing, looking the way only a dog can look who is totally disappointed. Indeed, they were the very pictures of disappointment.
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
#9. Popularity is the pocket change of history. The true measure is courage. There will never be another Charlton Heston.
Tom Selleck
#11. Perhaps one central reason for loving dogs is that they take us away from this obsession with ourselves. When our thoughts start to go in circles, and we seem unable to break away, wondering what horrible event the future holds for us, the dog opens a window into the delight of the moment.
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
#13. The terrosirt and the policeman both come form the same basket. Revolution, legality - countermoves in the same game; forms of idleness at bottom identical.
Joseph Conrad
#14. A lion is not a lion if it is only free to eat, to sleep and to copulate. It deserves to be free to hunt and to choose its own prey; to look for and find its own mate; to fight for and hold its own territory; and to die where it was born - in the wild. It should have the same rights as we have.
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
#15. Animals are, like us, endangered species on an endangered planet, and we are the ones who are endangering them, it, and ourselves. They are innocent sufferers in a hell of our making.
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
#16. Questers of the truth, that's who dogs are; seekers after the invisible scent of another being's authentic core.
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
#17. We need cats to need us. It unnerves us that they do not. However, if they do not need us, they nonetheless seem to love us.
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
#18. He was fluent in nineteen modern languages, five ancient languages and the one true universal language - pain.
Tiffany Reisz
#19. Strange as it seems, we appear to be the only species who do not have an instinctive ability to know what food we should eat to stay healthy. All other animals do. We consider ourselves a superior species, yet we are destroying the only planet we have, endangering our very existence.
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
#20. I have obsessed about my weight in some sort of way all my life. I used to write in my journal what I weighed every day.
Valerie Bertinelli
#21. We might miss the sign or we may be unable to read the expression, but it is almost a contradiction in terms to say that a dog feels something but does not show it. What a dog feels, a dog shows, and, conversely, what a dog shows, a dog actually does feel.
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
#22. Farmers today keep themselves in ignorance of the needs and true nature of pigs precisely because to know would put their conscience in a terrible bind. Wilful ignorance of this kind is no better than complicity.
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
#23. How may paintings have preserved the image of a divine beauty which in its natural manifestation has been rapidly overtaken by time or death. Thus, the work of the painter is nobler than that of nature, its mistress.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#24. Furthermore, I preferred to only have cravings I could satisfy without the requirement or assistance of another person. This was, after all, the definition of self-reliance.
Penny Reid
#25. The curiosity of cats is, like their affection, of a purity and intensity rarely seen in humans. We would be jaded when faced with the fiftieth paper bag. Not so our cats.
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
