Animal Death Quotes

“He will lift up the limp bodies of the rabbits and show me how he caught them square between the eyes, and the bright bodies of male and female pheasants with shot in the breast and their necks hanging broken and their eyes half open in the voluptuous death he loves. He will be a knife leaning above me as he kisses me.”
― Meridel Le Sueur, Harvest

“I want you to grab a rag,
a sponge, the corner of your shirt―
anything you can find—to sop
up the liquid—so much of it
you can’t tell what’s what—be it
mucus or bile or vomit or blood―
as if every water has been brought up
for this giving-in, as if his body
is already a river and rushing

away.”
― Nickole Brown, To Those Who Were Our First Gods

“Over the noise of their voices the survivors in the dinghy heard other sounds, awful sounds: creaking and sighing and popping, and breaking glass, and the muffled noise of massive streams of bubbles coming from compartments and holds beneath the water. And, above that, something else, from near where the forecastle was now slipping beneath the water. They heard the chickens and the ducks making a terrible racket, as, caged and tethered near the bowsprit, they were going down with the ship. Amid all the death and destruction, it was, somehow, a particularly wrenching sound. And then it stopped.”
― David Ball, China Run