Humans Quotes - Page 16

• Trout's leading robot looked like a human being, and could talk and dance and so on, and go out with girls. And nobody held it against him that he dropped jellied gasoline on people. But they found his halitosis unforgivable. But then he cleared that up, and he was welcomed to the human race.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Girl, Race, People

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• I couldn’t be with people and I didn’t want to be alone. Suddenly my perspective whooshed and I was far out in space, watching the world. I could see millions and millions of people, all slotted into their lives; then I could see me—I’d lost my place in the universe. It had closed up and there was nowhere for me to be. I was more lost than I had known it was possible for any human being to be.

  Marian Keyes

  Depression, Space, People

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• Where did love begin?What human being looked at another and saw in their face the forests and the sea? Was there a day, exhausted and weary,dragging home food, arms cut and scarred, that you saw yellow flowers and, not knowing what you did, picked them because I love you? In the fossil record of our existence, there is no trace of love. You cannot find it held in the earth's crust, waiting to be discovered. The long bones of our ancestors show nothing of their hearts.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Flower, Love You, Home

  Jeanette Winterson (2006). “Lighthousekeeping”, p.179, HMH

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• Fang looked at the newest bird kid. Dylan was an inch or two taller than he was, and somewhat heavier built, though he still had the long, lean look of a human-avian hybrid-you couldn't make bricks fly.

  James Patterson

  Kids, Two, Long

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• In his eyes shone the reflection of the most beautiful planet in the Universe---a planet that is not too hot and not too cold; that has liquid water on the surface and where the gravity is just right for human beings and the atmosphere is perfect for them to breathe; where there are mountains and deserts and oceans and islands and forests and trees and birds and plants and animals and insects and people---lots and lots of people. Where there is life. Some of it, possibly, intelligent.

  Stephen Hawking

  Beautiful, Ocean, Eye

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• Great. "So not only am I not-human, but Death is my arch foe?" Who, me? Panic? "Anything else you want to tell me, while we're confessing?

  Rachel Vincent

  Want, Panic, Arches

  Rachel Vincent (2009). “My Soul to Take”, p.131, Harlequin

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• Many people falsely believe that if you want to be holy, you are not allowed to enjoy life...Holiness brings us to life. It refines every human ability. Holiness doesn't dampen our emotions; it elevates them. Those who respond to God's call to holiness are the most joyful people in history. They have a richer, more abundant experience of life, and they love more deeply than most people can every imagine. They enjoy life, all of life.

  Matthew Kelly

  Believe, People, Enjoy Life

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• There are times in this life when a person must do or say things he doesn't want to. Human beings and chains, it is the oldest acquaintanceship in the world.

  Nadeem Aslam

  World, Want, This Life

  Nadeem Aslam (2011). “Maps for Lost Lovers”, p.176, Faber & Faber

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• Like some kind of strange vacuum cleaner I tried to console him. I recited the same old litanies that you say to people when you try to help their broken hearts, but words can't help at all. It's just the sound of another human voice that makes the only difference. There's nothing you're ever going to say that's going to make anybody happy when they're feeling shitty about losing somebody that they love.

  Richard Brautigan

  Heart, Voice, Differences

  Richard Brautigan (1995). “Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• it's your own fault for encouraging him..., you know. Now he thinks he's a human being. Neal of Queens cove

  Tamora Pierce

  Queens, Thinking, Faults

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• Everyone needs help. That's the human condition.

  Max Allan Collins

  Needs, Helping, Human Condition

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• Snap judgments? I'd gotten over those about the time I was toilet trained. Swore off diapers and faith in the human experience all in one week.

  Rob Thurman

  Snap Judgment, Toilets, Diapers

  Rob Thurman (2006). “Nightlife”, p.42, Penguin

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• We believe human begins have existed for only a small fraction of cosmic history, because human race has been improving so rapidly in knowledge and technology that if people had been around for millions of years, the human race would be much further along in it's mastery.

  Stephen Hawking

  Believe, Technology, Race

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• Wait, Saturday night?" The ladder-backed chair creaked and I looked up as he leaned forward to eye me in growing suspicion. "I thought you stayed home." I shrugged and raised one eyebrow at him. "I thought I was human.

  Rachel Vincent

  Home, Eye, Night

  Rachel Vincent (2011). “Soul Screamers Volume One: My Soul to Lose\My Soul to Take\My Soul to Save”, p.223, Harlequin

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• It was a damned good thing men couldn’t have children. Gregory took no shame in admitting that the human race would have died out generations earlier.

  Julia Quinn

  Children, Men, Race

  Julia Quinn (2006). “On the way to the wedding”

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• Egypt loved the lotus becuase it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved. Thus can something as insignificant as a name-two syllables, one high, one sweet- summon up the innumerable smiles, tears, sighs and dreams of a human life.

  Anita Diament

  Dream, Sweet, Egypt

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• Some of the memories were not clear - -dim human memories, seen through weak eyes and heard through weak ears: the first time I'd seen his face... the way it felt when he'd held me in the meadow... the sound of his voice through the darkness of my faltering consciousness when he'd save me from James... his face as he waited under a canopy of flowers to marry me... every precious moment on the island... his cold hands touching our baby through my skin.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Baby, Memories, Flower

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• the supply of the milk of human kindness was short by several gallons

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Kindness, Milk, Gallons

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• I'd like to do something to help the worst afflicted, but I can't. It's not possible to save everybody. Even heroes have their all-too-human limits.

  Darren Shan

  Hero, Limits, Helping

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• Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.

  Elie Wiesel

  Wall, Suffering, Cry

  Elie Wiesel (2006). “Day: A Novel”, p.96, Macmillan

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• Everyone represses everything. Do you think any of these "normal" human beings really do exactly what they want to do all the time? 'Course not. It's just the same. We're middle-class and we're British. Repression is in our veins.

  Matt Haig

  Thinking, Class, Veins

  Matt Haig (2011). “The Radleys: A Novel”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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• I am part-demon, part-human. What else does that make me?" She answered his question with one of her own. "I am part-centaur, part-human. Does that make me a mutant?" "It makes you a miracle." She held his gaze. "Exactly.

  P. C. Cast

  Miracle, Mutants, Doe

  P.C. Cast (2009). “Elphame's Choice”, p.290, Harlequin

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• So easy to take it for granted, but this is something no normal human was made to see. The world of magic has blessed me with wonders and it's only right to stop every now and then to appreciate it.

  Darren Shan

  Blessed, Appreciate, Magic

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• The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard from there. The greater the number of complaints being aired, the better protected are human rights in that country.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Country, Rights, Numbers

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• If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Simple, Mind, Taste

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1974). “Frankenstein, Or the Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text”, p.51, University of Chicago Press

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