Cat Quotes: 19 Authors’ Insights on Cats “Zen Masters”

Cat Quotes – Authors now and then have been inspired by cats greatly. They have a lot in common as they prefer silence than chatting and enjoy its solitude. We’ve collected 19 authors’ cat quotes, every one of them can inspire you to see your cats in a different way.

Cat Quotes by 19 Authors

Aldous Huxley (author, Brave New World)

If you want to write, keep cats.

50 Famous Quotes About Cats (cattime.com)

Aldous Huxley: If You Are a Writer, Cats Are MUST

Charles Dickens (author, Great Expectations)

What greater gift than the love of a cat?

50 Famous Quotes About Cats (cattime.com)

Colette (author, Gigi)

There are no ordinary cats.

The cat is the animal to whom the Creator gave the biggest eye, the softest fur, the most supremely delicate nostrils, a mobile ear, an unrivaled paw and a curved claw borrowed from the rose-tree.

quotations about animals (Brain Candy)

Time spent with a cat is never wasted.

50 Famous Quotes About Cats (cattime.com)

Colette: French Novelist’s Quotes and Love for Cats

William Lyon Phelps (scholar)

A cat pours his body on the floor like water.

quotations about animals (Brain Candy)

Jean Cocteau (author, Les Enfants Terribles)

I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.

quotations about animals (Brain Candy)

Jean Cocteau: Poet’s Quotes and “The Cat Friend’s Club”

Eckhart Tolle (author, The Power of Now)

I have lived with several Zen masters — all of them cats.

50 Famous Quotes About Cats (cattime.com)

Ray Bradbury (author, Fahrenheit 451)

That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

50 Famous Quotes About Cats (cattime.com)

Kristin Cast (author, House of Night series)

Cats choose us; we don’t own them.

50 Famous Quotes About Cats (cattime.com)

Charles Baudelaire (author, The Cat)

Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no end.

quotations about animals (Brain Candy)

Baudelaire Poem “The Cat”, Bio, and Decadence

Lilian Jackson Braun (author, series of The Cat Who… mystery novels)

Cats never strike a pose that isn’t photogenic.

30 Absolutely Interesting Cat Quotes (DIARY OF DENNIS)

Geoffrey Household (author, Rogue Male)

I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human being is not the ability to produce food which they take for granted, but his or her entertainment value.

30 Absolutely Interesting Cat Quotes (DIARY OF DENNIS)

William S. Burroughs (author, Naked Lunch)

Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.

quotations about animals (Brain Candy)

William S. Burroughs and His Unabashed Love for Cats

Ernest Hemingway (author, For Whom the Bell Tolls)

One cat just leads to another.

40 Cat Quotes That Are Brutally True (DIARY OF DENNIS)

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

50 Famous Quotes About Cats (cattime.com)

Hemingway Cats: Snowball, the Beloved Six-toed Cat

Théophile Gautier (poet)

If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend, but never your slave.

40 Cat Quotes That Are Brutally True (DIARY OF DENNIS)

Jules Renard (author, Poil de carotte)

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.

40 Cat Quotes That Are Brutally True (DIARY OF DENNIS)

H.P. Lovecraft (author, At the Mountains of Madness)

In its flawless grace and superior self-sufficiency I have seen a symbol of the perfect beauty and bland impersonality of the universe itself, objectively considered, and in its air of silent mystery there resides for me all the wonder and fascination of the unknown.

50 Famous Quotes About Cats (cattime.com)

Desmond Morris (author, The Naked Ape)

Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.

50 Famous Quotes About Cats (cattime.com)

Garrison Keillor (storyteller)

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.

quotations about animals (Brain Candy)

Robertson Davies (author, The Deptford Trilogy)

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

quotations about animals (Brain Candy)

Well, both cats and authors are independent and solitude-loving creatures. Do they interact? Yes, they do a lot. They look at each other, more precisely observe each other’s behaviors… Perhaps both of them are genius to read between the lines and express their ideas really well. They know when to keep distance and when to distract and enjoy the tension of the game. Once you taste a cat, there’s no turning back.

Related Articles

Cat Quotes: 16 Artists’ Insights on Cats “Decipher Feline Behavior”

---

Also published on Medium.