Best cat & self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

“What right do we have to claim, as some might, that human beings are the only inhabitants of our planet blessed with an actual ability to be "aware"? The impression of a "conscious presence" is indeed very strong with me when I look at a dog or a cat or, especially, when an ape or monkey at the zoo looks at me. I do not ask that they are "self-aware" in any strong sense (though I would guess that an element of self-awareness can be present). All I ask is that they sometimes simply feel!”

“In nature, creatures never ended the lives of others except to survive. To women, abortion was self-defense and preservation of the species. Abortion was not a fancy borne out of the female mind. Abortion was instinct beyond ideas. Abortion was fear (the cat that devours its litter when a predator nears).”

Mind Ideas Self Creatures Female Cat Instinct Species Defense Fancy Abortion Preservation Self Defense Predator Lives Of Others Female Mind

Book:Sapogonia: (an Anti-romance in 3/8 Meter)

Source: Sapogonia: (an Anti-romance in 3/8 Meter)

“Cat talk is a complicated, self-centered language. If you speak to your cat first, it probably won't speak back. Cats initiate conversations.”

Ifs Firsts Self Speak Language Conversation Cat Complicated Self Centered Initiate

Author:Jean Craighead George

“Cats ... are completely self-sufficient and can leave you at any time and go off and make a living. And yet cats can have warm and loving relationships with humans.”

Humans Self Cat Warm Sufficient Self Sufficient Loving Relationships

Author:Jean Craighead George

“It is just this rage for consideration that has betrayed the dog into his satellite position as the friend of man. The cat, an animal of franker appetites, preserves his independence. But the dog, with one eye ever on the audience, has been wheedled into slavery, and praised and patted into the renunciation of his nature. Once he ceased hunting and became man's plate-licker, the Rubicon was crossed. Thenceforth he was a gentleman of leisure; and except the few whom we keep working, the whole race grew more and more self-conscious, mannered and affected.”

Source: Memories and Portraits: Stevenson's Vol. 21

“There's something about cats' self-sufficiency and their seemingly individualistic ways that I find compelling.”

Way Self Cat Compelling Self Sufficiency Sufficiency Individualistic

Author:Marc Maron

“My cats, the ones that I have, were feral when I found them so the relationship that I have with them 10 years in is very mutual, earned, and evolved over time. It was never an easy thing. I like that they have a certain distance and have their own sense of selves.”

Years Self Certain Found Easy Cat Distance Mutual Sense Of Self Easy Things

Author:Marc Maron

“Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.”

Looks Self Cat Satisfied

Author:Barbara Mertz

“Too many people are confusing charisma with autocrat, fat cat. So I think we have to be a little more sophisticated when we hold up or tear down these stereotypes. Whether we call it charisma or not, a leader cannot be self-effacing to the point of being wimpy.”

People Thinking Littles Self Leader Tears Cat Fats Sophisticated Stereotype Confusing Charisma

Author:Noel Tichy

“Nobody quite knows the truth about cats purring, but it does seem to be also a self-healing thing for them, which is why, when you take your cat to the vet and it's frightened, it will purr.”

Knows Doe Self Seems Healing Cat Frightened Self Healing Vets Purring

Author:Margaret Atwood

“I just moved into a new house, so I love spending time at home. Everything for me is all about self-care because I really feel that if I'm at my best, than I'm able to come to my job and really be feeling the best, so if I'm not working out or going on a hike, than I'm at home recharging and cooking dinner and hanging out with my cat.”

Ifs Feels Self Feelings Home Care Able Jobs House Cat Cooking Moved Work Out Dinner Spending Hanging Out Self Care Spending Time Cooking Dinner Recharging

Author:Lea Michele

“There is fire and fire: The fire that burns and the fire that gives warmth, a fire that sets a forest ablaze and the fire that puts a cat to sleep. So is it with self-love. The member that once seemed one of the wonders of the world soon becomes as homely as an old slipper. Mathew and himself gradually ceased to excite each other.”

World Giving Self Sleep Wonder Fire Self Love Members Cat Forests Warmth Slippers Homely Wonder Of The World

Book:The Dreamers

Source: The Dreamers

“# "I saw the most beautiful cat today. It was sitting by the side of the road, its two front feet neatly and graciously together. Then it gravely swished around its tail to completely encircle itself. It was so fit and beautifully neat, that gesture, and so self-satisfied, so complacent.”

Two Self Today Together Beautiful Sides Saws Feet Fronts Fit Sitting Cat Satisfied Gestures Tails Neat Complacent

Book:BRING ME A UNICORN

Source: BRING ME A UNICORN

“Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their ''evil'' look at such times is no human projection: the cat may be the only animal who savors the perverse or reflects upon it”

Humans Looks May Self Evil Interest Animal Cat Naked Immoral Projection Self Interest Breaking Rules Evil Look

Book:Sexual Personae

Source: Sexual Personae

“Human beings are drawn to cats because they are all we are not — self-contained, elegant in everything they do, relaxed, assured, glad of company, yet still possessing secret lives.”

Humans Stills Self Human Beings Secret Company Cat Glad Relaxed Elegant Assured Possessing Secret Life Self Contained

Author:Pam Brown

“Cats were often familiars to workers of magic because to anyone used to wrestling with self-willed, wayward, devious magic--which was what all magic was--it was rather soothing to have all the same qualities wrapped up in a small, furry, generally attractive bundle that...might, if it were in a good mood, sit on your knee and purr. Magic never sat on anybody's knee and purred.”

Ifs Self Might Used Quality Magic Cat Workers Mood Knees Attractive Sat Wrestling Soothing Bundles Good Mood Devious Furry

Book:Spindle's End

Source: Spindle's End

“Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated as an evil necessary for the control of rodents and subsequently fetishized the way unhappy countries fetishize their militaries, saluting the uniforms of killers as cat owners stroke their animals' lovely fur and forgive their claws and fangs. He'd never seen anything in a cat's face but simpering incuriosity and self-interest; you only had to tease one with a mouse-toy to see where it's true heart lay...cats were all about using people”

Source: Freedom: A Novel

“Happy belated birthday, Cat," he said, giving me a self-deprecating smile. "Aren't you glad Juan picked the place and not me? We wold have had lattes and hors d'oeuvres instead of liquor and G-strings. Anyone get you a gin yet?”

Giving Said Self Cat Glad Strings Liquor Gin Juan Self Deprecating Lattes Belated

Author:Jeaniene Frost

“Like most qualities, cuteness is delineated by what it isn't. Most people aren't cute at all, or if so they quickly outgrow their cuteness ... Elegance, grace, delicacy, beauty, and a lack of self-consciousness: a creature who knows he is cute soon isn't.”

People Ifs Knows Self Consciousness Quality Grace Creatures Cat Cute Elegance Self Consciousness Delicacy Cuteness

Author:William S. Burroughs

“Seeing an Earl as an owl on a mantelpiece, and having part of one's face removed by a cat, both on the same morning, can temporarily undermine the self-control of any man.”

Men Self Faces Morning Seeing Cat Self Control Owl

Book:Titus Groan

Source: Titus Groan

“The basis of the self is not thought but suffering, which is the most fundamental of all feelings. While it suffers, not even a cat can doubt its unique and uninterchangeable self. In intense suffering the world disappears and each of us is alone with his self. Suffering is the university of ego-centrism.”

World Self Feelings Suffering Doubt Ego Unique Cat Bases Fundamentals University Disappear Intense

Author:Milan Kundera

“You look ridiculous,” Wren said. “What?” “That shirt.” It was a Hello Kitty shirt from eighth or ninth grade. Hello Kitty dressed as a superhero. It said SUPER CAT on the back, and Wren had added an H with fabric paint. The shirt was cropped too short to begin with, and it didn’t really fit anymore. Cath pulled it down self-consciously. “Cath!” her dad shouted from downstairs. “Phone.” Cath picked up her cell phone and looked at it “He must mean the house phone,” Wren said. “Who calls the house phone?” “Probably 2005. I think it wants its shirt back.”

Source: The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On

“Cats invented self-esteem; there is not an insecure bone in their body.”

Self Body Self Esteem Cat Bones Esteem Insecure

Author:Erma Bombeck

“Cats invented self-esteem.”

Self Self Esteem Cat Esteem

Author:Erma Bombeck

“A friend is, as it were, a second self.”

Self Friendship Cat Philosophical

Book:M. Tullii Ciceronis, De Senectute Et De Amicitiâ

Source: M. Tullii Ciceronis, De Senectute Et De Amicitiâ

“There is nothing so lowering to one's self-esteem as the affectionate contempt of a beloved cat.”

Self Self Esteem Cat Esteem Beloved Contempt Affectionate

Author:Monica Edwards

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