This department from The Goreletter collects quotable quotes of the damned.
"You are more useful to Nature dead than alive."
-- U.G. Krishnamurti (died 2007)
Rest in Green Peace
"If death had only negative aspects, dying would be an unmanageable action."
--Emile M. Cioran (died 1995)
We’ll Manage
"When the fish were opened, I saw smaller fish taken out of their stomachs; then thought I, 'If you eat one another, I don't see why we mayn't eat you.'...So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do."
-- Benjamin Franklin (died 1790)
Look Out Cannibals!
"In an aversion to animals the predominant feeling is fear of being recognized by them through contact. The horror that stirs deep in man is an obscure awareness that in him something lives so akin to the animal that it might be recognized. All disgust is originally disgust at touching."
-- Walter Benjamin (died 1940)
The Petting Zoophobia
"All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing."
-- Maurice Maeterlinck (died 1949)
