Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Animals love and suffer, cry and laugh; their hearts rise up in anticipation and fall in despair...they feel.
-- Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

#Fall #Heart #Animal
Dogs never lie about love.
-- Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

#Dog #Lying #Dog Lover
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

#Dog #Circles #Delight
Every time I told my cocker spaniel, Taffy, my very first dog, that we were going for a walk, she would launch into a celebratory dance that ended with her racing around the room, always clockwise, and faster and faster, as if her joy could not be possibly contained. Even as a young boy I knew that hardly any creature could express joy so vividly as a dog.
-- Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

#Family #Dog #Boys
Hardly any animal can look as deeply disappointed as a dog to whom one says "no."
-- Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

#Dog #Animal #Training
Questers of the truth, thatâ€™s who dogs are; seekers after the invisible scent of another beingâ€™s authentic core.
-- Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

#Dog #Animal #Scent
Many people have heard the remarkable example of devotion involving a Skye terrier dog who worked for a Scottish shepherd named Old Jock. In 1858, the day after Jock was buried (with almost nobody present to mourn him except his shaggy dog) in the churchyard at Greyfriars Abbey in Edinburgh, Bobby was found sleeping on his master's grave, where he continued to sleep every night for fourteen years.
-- Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

#Friendship #Dog #Sleep
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

#Cat #Curiosity #Would Be
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

#Animal #Hell #Innocent
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

#Dog #Reflection #Years
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

#Cat #Needs
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

#Dog #Expression #Missing
What struck me whenever I visited a farm was how much more sophisticated was the life the animals were capable of living than was assumed by those exploiting them. The more we are willing to see about their lives, the more we will see. Humans seem to take perverse pleasure in attributing stupidity to animals when it is almost always entirely a question of human ignorance.
-- Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

#Ignorance #Animal #Stupidity
Love for a dog during childhood is one of the deepest and purest emotions we are ever likely to have, and it remains with us for the rest of our lives. For some people, their first experience with love is with a dog. The fact that the dog returns the love so fiercely, so openly, so unambivalently, is for many children a unique and lasting experience.
-- Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

#Dog #Children #Unique

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