Quotes About Masson

#1. Masson disliked and respected the ferocious little rodents, for he knew the danger that lurked in their flashing, needle-sharp fangs;

H.P. Lovecraft

#2. To feel themselves in the presence of true greatness many find it necessary only to be alone.

Thomas Lansing Masson

#3. It must be a hard life to be the child of a psychologist.

Thomas Lansing Masson

#4. Dogs never lie about love.

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

#5. Truth is the first casualty of war.

Sophie Masson

#6. 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

#7. Seventy million books in America's libraries, but the one you want to read is always out.

Thomas Lansing Masson

#8. Us" versus "them" is not in our genes. It is something we learn.

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

#9. The love game is never called off on account of darkness

Thomas L. Masson

#10. You can always get someone to love you - even if you have to do it yourself.

Thomas Lansing Masson

#11. 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

#12. A mind is as strong as its weakest think.

Thomas Lansing Masson

#13. (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

#14. Animals love and suffer, cry and laugh; their hearts rise up in anticipation and fall in despair ... they feel.

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

#15. A senior always feels like the university is going to the kids.

Thomas Lansing Masson

#16. No brain is stronger than its weakest think.

Thomas Lansing Masson

#17. Happiness is the feeling we experience when we are too busy to be miserable.

Thomas L. Masson

#18. Swimming the ocean a giant brain watches us.

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

#19. There is no man so low down that the cure for his condition does not lie strictly within himself.

Thomas Lansing Masson

#20. 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

#21. Bombs and bullets don't discriminate.

Sophie Masson

#22. Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water.

Thomas L. Masson

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. What if my trousers are shabby and worn, they cover a warm hearth.

Thomas Lansing Masson

#28. Some girls never know what they are going to do from one husband to another.

Thomas Lansing Masson

#29. 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

#30. Questers of the truth, that's who dogs are; seekers after the invisible scent of another being's authentic core.

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

#31. 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

#32. Sense of humor: A thread of illuminated intelligence that links two opposite ideas.

Thomas Lansing Masson

#33. Hardly any animal can look as deeply disappointed as a dog to whom one says "no."

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

#34. Think of what would happen to us ... if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.

Thomas Lansing Masson

#35. 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