37 Wolf Quotes

Wolves have long captivated human imagination with their powerful presence, keen intelligence, and unyielding strength. These majestic creatures of the wild not only play crucial roles in their ecosystems but also serve as symbols of loyalty, courage, and perseverance in various cultures. Whether you're drawn to their mystique, their tales of survival, or their strong social bonds, wolf quotes can offer profound insights and inspiration. In this post, we've curated a collection of the top 37 wolf quotes that encapsulate the essence of these incredible animals, providing food for thought and sparks for the spirit. Dive in and let the wisdom of the wolf guide you.

1. “A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it was not even that of sadness. There was a hint in it of laughter, but of laughter more terrible than any sadness-a laughter that was mirthless as the smile of the Sphinx, a laughter cold as the frost and partaking of the grimness of infallibility. It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild.” - Jack London

2. “Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It's just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.” - Alfred Hitchcock

3. “Wolves directly affect the entire ecosystem, not just moose populations, their main prey, because less moose equals more tree growth” - Rolf Peterson

4. “What's that supposed to mean? A wolf's head on a stick. Big wolf barbecue tonight? Bring your own wolf?” - Eoin Colfer

5. “The deer hovered by the trees beyond as the sounds of the ravening wolves came to them across the grass, their own senses almost frozen in impotent horror.” - David Clement-Davies

6. “She stands and moves within the invisible pentacle of her own virginity. She is an unbroken egg: she is a sealed vessel; she has inside her a magic space the entrance to which is shut tight with a plug of membrane; she is a closed system; she does not know how to shiver.” - Angela Carter

7. “Good for Christmas-time is the ruddy colour of the cloak in which--the tree making a forest of itself for her to trip through, with her basket--Little Red Riding-Hood comes to me one Christmas Eve to give me information of the cruelty and treachery of that dissembling Wolf who ate her grandmother, without making any impression on his appetite, and then ate her, after making that ferocious joke about his teeth. She was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding-Hood, I should have known perfect bliss. But, it was not to be; and there was nothing for it but to look out the Wolf in the Noah's Ark there, and put him late in the procession on the table, as a monster who was to be degraded.” - Charles Dickens

8. “One beast and only one howls in the woods by night.” - Angela Carter

9. “Those are the voices of my brothers, darling; I love the company of wolves.” - Angela Carter

10. “His lazy grin incinerated the rest of my heart.” - Jordan Deen

11. “That we can never know," answered the wolf angrily. "That's for the future. But what we can know is the importance of what we owe to the present. Here and now, and nowhere else. For nothing else exists, except in our minds. What we owe to ourselves, and to those we're bound to. And we can at least hope to make a better future, for everything.” - David Clement-Davies

12. “I lay in bed that night, a first-time drunkard at seven years of age, pondering the punishment I knew would arrive on callused palms. In the forest, as if sensing my plight, wolves howled nocturnal laments. The magnificent lunar lullabies of my lupine brethren wooed me into a deep and cleansing sleep.” - Mark Rice

13. “Grace stopped in the door, dimly silhouetted by the dull gray morning light, and looked back at me, at my eyes, my mouth, my hands, in a way that made something inside me knot and unknot unbearably.I didn't think I belonged here in her world, a boy stuck between two lives, dragging the dangers of the wolves with me, but when she said my name, waiting for me to follow, I knew I'd do anything to stay with her.” - Maggie Stiefvater

14. “You are not evil, Fell. You have just been robbed of love. Of light.” - David Clement-Davies

15. “Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.” - Criss Jami

16. “To run with the wolf was to run in the shadows, the dark ray of life, survival and instinct. A fierceness that was both proud and lonely, a tearing, a howling, a hunger and thirst. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst. A strength that would die fighting, kicking, screaming, that wouldn't stop until the last breath had been wrung from its body. The will to take one's place in the world. To say 'I am here.' To say 'I am.” - O. R. Melling

17. “It's been a pleasure, she-wolf.' He climbed out of the jeep before I could hit him.” - Andrea Cremer

18. “Shay strolled alongside me, humming 'Here Comes the Bride,' until I punched him in the kidney.” - Andrea Cremer

19. “That's my girl.''Alpha.''Whatever.” - Andrea Cremer

20. “You're assuming they would listen to me," I said.Cole lifted his hands off the roof of the Volkswagen; cloudy fingerprints evaporated seconds ater he did. "We all listen to you, Sam." He jumped to the pavement. "You just don't always talk to us.” - Maggie Stiefvater

21. “A man might befriend a wolf, even break a wolf, but no man could truly tame a wolf.” - George R.R. Martin

22. “There is no better way to know us Than as two wolves, come separately to a wood.” - Ted Hughes

23. “One day a wolf bit a man and the man caught it. Magic or science, it's all the same. The only thing magical about it is that we can't explain it." ~Sam” - Maggie Stiefvater

24. “No, we’re talking Brad and Johnny need to bow down and recognize,” Jacque answered.” - Quinn Loftis

25. “We are wolves, which are wild dogs, and this is our place in the city. We are small and our house is small on our small urban street. We can see the city and the train line and it's beautiful in its own dangerous way. Dangerous because it's shared and taken and fought for.That's the best way I can put it, and thinking about it, when I walk past the tiny houses on our street, I wonder about the stories inside them. I wonder hard, because houses must have walls and rooftops for a reason. My only query is the windows. Why do they have windows? Is it to let a glimpse of the world in? Or for us to see out?” - Markus Zusak

26. “Everyone knew there were wolves in the mountains, but they seldom came near the village - the modern wolves were the offspring of ancestors that had survived because they had learned that human meat had sharp edges.” - Terry Pratchett

27. “That night the wind was howling almost like a wolf and there were some real wolves off to the west giving it lessons.” - George R.R. Martin

28. “Cormac smiled at her, but it was Finn who spoke. "Can I ask you a question?""Sure."He leaned forward conspiratorially. "So, if I gave you some catnip would you act all weird and stoned?""I don't know. If I throw a stick, will you fetch?" She smiled sweetly at Cormac's cousin.Burke made a choking noise, covering a laugh with his hand. Finn screwed up his face, as if in disgust. "Dude. I am NOT a dog.""And I’m not a pampered house cat.” - Jeanette Battista

29. “RUNT is my FAVORITE book.It starts out small.Then,it gets exciting in the middle.In the end it settled.” - Marion Dane Bauer

30. “Werewolves did not consider wolves one of their own; in fact, wolves were inferior. They were hunters, strong and ravenous like them, but they weren't as big or as intelligent.” - Janiera Eldridge

31. “Brassa,' she whispered, 'what is the moon? Why does it grow in the sky?''Because the moon is the goddess Tor,' answered Brassa softly, smiling down at Larka, 'looking down on us all. As some say the fury of the sun is the hunter Fenris snarling at the Varg, so they say the moon is the wolf goddess, opening her eyes wider and wider and stroking the world with her kindness.” - David Clement-Davies

32. “For Gilead and the Calla!" he roared. "Now, gunslingers! Now, you Sisters of Oriza! Now, now! Kill them! No Quarter! Kill them all!” - Stephen King

33. “I'm out to change people's attitudes about them. Wolves are a whole lot more than just predators who feast on a rancher's herd. They're smart and clever and loyal and courageours, and sometimes they do really stupid, silly things, just like people.” - R.C. Ryan

34. “The wolf sniffed beneath the door to be sure this was a human cottage. The scent was undeniable. No pigs, except in bacon form. The wolf thought bacon form was a very sensible way for pigs to behave.” - Vivian Vande Velde

35. “But he is not always alone. When the long winter nights come on and the wolves follow their meat into the lower valleys, he may be seen running at the head of the pack through the pale moonlight or glimmering borealis, leaping gigantic above his fellows, his great throat a-bellow as he sings a song of the younger world, which is the song of the pack.” - Jack London

36. “Ulrich Van Holtz continued to read the latest tome on world economics, pretending to be bored, but in truth absolutely fascinated!” - Shelly Laurenston

37. “All I got to say is if she said no, shemight not want to go to sleep tonight'cause I'm going to dye her hair blonde to compliment her being a dumb ass," Jen told them. "Uh, Jen, you're a blonde," Jacque pointed out."No, not really, God just got it wrong and it was too late to change it once He noticed.” - Quinn Loftis