Animal Life Quotes

“I know, of course, that the sun rises and sets, that man is born and dies, that nothing is final or immutable and that man is an explorer in a world of eternally shimmering and changeable light.”
― Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Animal Life

“I'm trying to understand fleeting and dangerous phenomena such as life itself. Every life that is ignited is a universe. Every life that is extinguished is a universe.”
― Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Animal Life

“I have come to the conclusion that the one who calls himself the master of all creatures is in fact the most vulnerable of all animals, the most fragile species, more fragile than a porcelain vase, than a bird's egg, the most fragile of the fragile on the planet. The most sensitive creature on earth never actually recovers from being born.”
― Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Animal Life

“It’s difficult to understand another person. But what is even more difficult to understand, difficult to know, what is most alien of all that is alien, unknown of all that is unknown, is one’s self.”
― Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Animal Life

“Llevo toda la vida tratando de averiguar cuál es el sentido de la existencia humana. Pero al final lo he entendido, ahora ya lo comprendo y creo tenerlo claro: el ser humano nace para amar.”
― Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, La verdad sobre la luz

“En lugar de mostrar humildad hacia el reino animal y el reino vegetal, el hombre lo quiere todo para él. Quiere adueñarse de los peces del mar, los ríos, las cascadas, las islas y, si por él fuera, hasta de las puestas de sol. Pero esa avaricia no es sino una estrategia para intentar olvidarse de que es mortal. Y, cuando por fin entiende lo que de verdad importa, su salud está deteriorada y le queda poco tiempo.”
― Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, La verdad sobre la luz

“No hay día en que no perdamos algo. Y, al final, nos perderemos a nosotros mismos.”
― Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, La verdad sobre la luz

“You'll realize that what doesn't happen is no less important than what does happen.”
― Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Animal Life

“Lambs and foals scramble to their feet at birth, but it generally takes a human child up to twelve months to acquire the ability to take three steps, with wobbly legs. It takes a human child two years to acquire a vocabulary of fifteen words. In that time, a female cat has given birth to at least one litter. Much later, a human learns words like footstalk and later terms like cause, freedom and regret, but there is no guarantee he will ever reflect on their meaning.”
― Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Animal Life