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“Just as a stream flows smoothly on as long as it encounters no obstruction, so the nature of man and animal is such that we never really notice or become conscious of what is agreeable to our will; if we are to notice something, our will has to have been thwarted, has to have experienced a shock of some kind.”

Ifs Men Kind Long Has Beens Animal Sadness Sad Conscious Flow Streams Encounters Shock Nature Of Man Obstruction

Book:On the Suffering of the World

Source: On the Suffering of the World

“Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart”

Men Heart Understanding Animal Grief Sadness Serious Habit Reflection Misery Grieving

Book:John Adams: Writings from the New Nation, 1784-1826

Source: John Adams: Writings from the New Nation, 1784-1826

“Will the things that are being lost - the wilderness, the plants and animals, the skills, and all the others - leave too vast a gap in the human spirit? This is the unanswerable question. In the meantime, we must live in our century and wait, enduring somehow the unavoidable sadness.”

Humans Spirit Lost Waiting Animal Sadness Century Skills Plant Endure Wilderness Gaps Human Spirit Plants And Animals

Author:David Ehrenfeld

“I felt a bottomless sadness. So completely alone. Like one of my stuffed animals at home that I was too old for now, that sat on the shelf in my closet, mashed against the back wall.”

Home Felt Animal Sadness Wall Sat Shelves Closets Stuffed Animal

Book:Running with Scissors: A Memoir

Source: Running with Scissors: A Memoir

“In fact, numerous scientific laboratory tests and field observations have led to the conclusion that animals are conscious, intelligent, emotional beings. They are not machines and truly feel physical pain when it is inflicted upon them. They are capable of experiencing a wide range of emotions, including loneliness, embarrassment, sadness, longing, depression, anxiety, panic, and fear, as well as joy, relief, surprise, happiness, contentment, and peace.”

“Eating meat and dairy products is the SAD (Standard American Diet) diet. The SAD diet can only make you sad. It causes heart disease, cancer, diabetes and makes you fat. Raising animals for food destroys the environment... And those animals are not happy. They are enslaved and live humiliating, fearful lives of abuse and tremendous suffering. Veganism turns sadness into joy.”

“...heroine: the artist, the premier mistress writhering in a garden graced w/highly polished blades of grass... release (ethiopium) is the drug...an animal howl says it all...notes pour into the caste of freedom...the freedom to be intense...to defy social order and break the slow kill monotony of censorship. to break from the long bonds of servitude-ruthless adoration of the celestial shepherd. let us celebrate our own flesh-to embrace not ones race mais the marathon-to never let go of the fiery sadness called desire.”

“Farm animals feel pleasure and sadness, excitement and resentment, depression, fear, and pain. They are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined...they are individuals in their own right.”

Feels Pain Individual Pleasure Animal Sadness Intelligent Excitement Farms Resentment

Author:Jane Goodall

“We're all carnies, though some people are in denial. They want to be above it all, above the mayhem of laughter and people and lights and animals and the dark sadness that lurks in the coners and beneath the rides and in the trailers after hours. So they ride teh Ferris wheel, and at the top, they think they've left it all behind They've ascended to a place where they can take things seriously. Where they can be taken seriously.”

People Thinking Want Light Left Hours Dark Animal Behinds Taken Sadness Laughter Denial Wheels Trailers Mayhem After Hours Ferris Wheels Carnies

Author:N.D. Wilson

“People are lonely, and only animals with fancy shoes.”

People Animal Sadness Lonely Shoes Fancy

Author:Jack Johnson