Bernard Jan > Quotes

“We are intelligent and compassionate creatures and we can make choices. We can fortify our hearts in goodness and do the right things. Or we can turn our heads the other way and pretend again that bad things are not happening. That they will disappear because they have nothing to do with us, because we are not accountable. Well, this is also our choice. But in that case, I am afraid, this world will be lost for us.”
― Bernard Jan

“Tonight I feel like a shooting star, but I hope my shine will last much longer.”
― Bernard Jan

“Passion in every word I wrote, passion in every single thought.”
― Bernard Jan

“All rivers carry their secrets, but not every river keeps its secret forever.”
― Bernard Jan, January River

“Sometimes all you need is a big heart and burning desire.”
― Bernard Jan, Look for Me Under the Rainbow

“It is so simple: the choices we make in our everyday lives, the things we do (or not) for others, define the world we live in.”
― Bernard Jan

“There is no greater joy than to share what you love with those who appreciate it.”
― Bernard Jan

“I am not the first nor the last one to mourn, but this is my way of mourning. It’s my way to deal with the pain and to feel you next to me. I couldn’t care less what others will say or think! They didn’t know you. They don’t know what you meant in my world.”
― Bernard Jan, A World Without Color: A True Story of the Last Three Days with my Cat

“All that is best in me I have given to (animals) and I mean to stand by them to the last and share their fate whatever it may be. If it is true that there is to be no haven of rest for them when their sufferings here are at an end, I, for one, am not going to bargain for any heaven for myself. I shall go without fear where they go, and by the side of my brothers and sisters from the forests and the fields, from skies to seas, lie down to merciful extinction in their mysterious underworld, safe from any further torments.” —Preface to The Story of San Michele by Axel Munthe”
― Bernard Jan, Look for Me Under the Rainbow

“There are the days when I feel like one of them—a hypocrite—when I am not persistent enough, stubborn and determined enough,”
― Bernard Jan, A World Without Color: A True Story of the Last Three Days with my Cat

“I hate working days that are made into holidays! It gets on my nerves when everything stops, when nothing is open and you have no place to go, and well-wishers, who spent the whole day devouring the bodies of tortured and slaughtered animals, occupy our phone.”
― Bernard Jan, A World Without Color: A True Story of the Last Three Days with my Cat