“A pet. In pets, free will was tolerated only as long as the pet owner found it amusing.”
Octavia E. Butler book Mind of My Mind
Source: Mind of My Mind (1977), Chapter 5 (p. 344)
Source: Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People
“A pet. In pets, free will was tolerated only as long as the pet owner found it amusing.”
Octavia E. Butler book Mind of My Mind
Source: Mind of My Mind (1977), Chapter 5 (p. 344)
“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.
Gaio Valerio Catullo list of poems by Catullus
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.
“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…”
George Eliot book The Mill on the Floss
Book I, ch. x
The Mill on the Floss (1860)