“A pet. In pets, free will was tolerated only as long as the pet owner found it amusing.”
Source: Mind of My Mind (1977), Chapter 5 (p. 344)
“Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it.”
Source: Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People
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American comedian 1961Related quotes
“Mourn, ye Graces and Loves, and all you whom the Graces love. My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow my lady's pet, whom she loved more than her own eyes.”
Lugete, O Veneres Cupidinesque,
Et quantum est hominum venustiorum.
Passer mortuus est meae puellae,
Passer, deliciae meae puellae.
III, lines 1–4
Lord Byron's translation:
Ye Cupids, droop each little head,
Nor let your wings with joy be spread:
My Lesbia's favourite bird is dead,
Whom dearer than her eyes she loved.
Carmina
K.d. lang
(1961) Canadian singer-songwriter
In a 1990 ad for PETA, standing beside a cow; as quoted in Have Not Been the Same: The CanRock Renaissance 1985-1995 by Michael Barclay, Ian A.D. Jack, Jason Schneider (Toronto: ECW Press, 2011 ebook edition), p. 419 https://books.google.it/books?id=UkvPAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT419.
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“To lose the thing we love is greater pain
Than to desire and never to obtain.”
Francesco Berni
(1497–1535) Italian poet
Che lasciar quel che s'ama, e peggio assai
Che disiarlo, e non averlo mai.
XVII, 6
Rifacimento of Orlando Innamorato
“Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation.”
Ingrid Newkirk
(1949) British-American activist
Harper's, 1988 August 1.
1980s
“Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love…”
Book I, ch. x
The Mill on the Floss (1860)