Humans Quotes - Page 23

• You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is.

  Ernest Cline

  Wonder, Easy, Happened

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• The universe, which is not merely the stars and the moon and the planets, flowers, grass and trees, but other people, has evolved no terms for your existence, has made no room for you, and if love will not swing wide the gates, no other power will or can. And if one despairs-- as who has not?-- of human love, God's love alone is left.

  James A. Baldwin

  Stars, Flower, Moon

  "Letter from a Region in My Mind" by James Baldwin, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.

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• It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals.

  Virginia Woolf

  Fighting, Impossible, Ideals

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Voyage Out”, p.74, Virginia Woolf

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• Humans were built to look back; that's why we have that swivel joint in our necks

  Stephen King

  Looks, Joints, Necks

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes human beings are very much like bees. Bees are fiercely protective of their hive, provided you are outside it. Once you’re in, the workers sort of assume that it must have been cleared by management and take no notice; various freeloading insects have evolved a mellifluous existence because of this very fact. Humans act the same way.

  Neil Gaiman

  Way, Facts, Bees

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• My name is Jared Howe. I haven't spoken to another human being in more than two years, so I'm sure I must seem...a little crazy to you.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Crazy, Years, Names

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• I told him they built a statue of Schultz, and then he said that a monument is cold comfort to a dead man, and then I said that the statue was built not for Schultz, but for us--to remind us how to be human.

  John Green

  Men, Comfort, Cold

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• As ministers we ought to speak of God. We are human, however, and so cannot speak of God. We ought therefore to recognize both our obligation and our inability and by that very recognition give glory to God

  Karl Barth

  Giving, Inability, Recognition

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• It’s human nature to tear one another apart. Be glad you come from such a successful line of killers.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Successful, Tears, Lines

  Paolo Bacigalupi (2011). “Ship Breaker: Number 1 in series”, p.103, Hachette UK

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• why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most

  David Mitchell

  Beautiful, Needs, Despise

  David Mitchell (2007). “Number9Dream: A Novel”, p.209, Random House

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• There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters. Even trashy bestsellers show people changing. When a fictional work fails to show change, when it merely indicates that human character is set, stony, unregenerable, then you are out of field of the novel and into that of the fable or the allegory. - from the introduction of the 1986 Norton edition

  Anthony Burgess

  Writing, Character, People

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• When people call people nerds, mostly what they're saying is, 'you like stuff.' Which is not a good insult at all, like, 'you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human conscience.

  John Green

  People, Miracle, Nerd

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• ...This is the only way. I will not allow humans or fairies to die when I might have prevented it.” Butler would not give up. “Listen to yourself. You sound like a... like a good guy! There’s nothing in this for you.

  Eoin Colfer

  Giving Up, Guy, Might

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• Maybe I’ll keep you.” Abbot chuckled and prodded Artemis’s back with his sword. “It’d be nice to have a pet human around. I could teach you tricks.” “I have a trick for you,” said Artemis, and he fired a single blast from the gun.

  Eoin Colfer

  Nice, Gun, Pet

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• That’s what I thought. When I looked that human in the face. I figured he was either a genius or crazy.” Artemis’s cool eyes glared at them from the screen. “So which is it?” asked Foaly. “A genius or crazy?” Root grabbed his tri-barreled blaster from the gun rack. “What’s the difference?

  Eoin Colfer

  Crazy, Eye, Gun

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• Joseph Obomsawin, the elder I lived with there, says that those who turn to animals do so because humans have let them down.

  Jodi Picoult

  Animal, Turns, Elders

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• To be a man, to have been born without knowing it or wanting it, to be thrown into the ocean of existence, to be obliged to swim, to exist; to have an identity; to resist the pressure and shocks from the outside and the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts - one's own and those of others - which so often exceed one's capacities? And what is more, to endure one's own thoughts about all this: in a word, to be human.

  Ivo Andric

  Ocean, Men, Knowing

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• Maybe the devil in human beings isn't the reflection of the devil, perhaps the devil is only a reflection of the savagery and brutality of our kind. Maybe what we've done is create the devil in our own image

  Dean Koontz

  Reflection, Devil, Brutality

  Dean Ray Koontz (1991). “Three Complete Novels”, Wings

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• I need dating advice. Fast.” Ash arched a single brow at that. “I’m useless. I’ve never been on one.” The three human men turned to gape at him. “What?” Ash asked them defensively. Nick started laughing. “Oh man, this is priceless. Don’t tell me the great Acheron is a virgin?” Ash gave him a droll look. “Yeah, Nick. I’m lily-white.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Men, White, Laughing

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Play”, p.117, Macmillan

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• The most dangerous and wonderful creature alive is the human.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Alive, Wonderful, Dangerous

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• Pam said, "Sookie, I brought you something, too. I never thought I'd want to spend time with a human, but you're more tolerable than most.

  Charlaine Harris

  Want, Said, Spend Time

  Charlaine Harris (2012). “Deadlocked: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.189, Penguin

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• ...capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.

  Leon Trotsky

  Doe, Exhaling, Crisis

  Leon Trotsky (1972). “The first 5 years of the Communist International”, Pathfinder Pr

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• The human mind is like a fertile ground were seed are continually being planted. The seeds are opinions, ideas, and concepts. You plant a seed, a thought grows, and it grows. The word is like a seed and the human mind is so fertile!

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Ideas, Mind, Opinion

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• Pride and resentment are not indigenous to the human heart; and perhaps it is due to the gardener's innate love of the exotic that we take such pains to make them thrive".

  Hope Mirrlees

  Pain, Heart, Pride

  Hope Mirrlees (2012). “Lud-in-the-Mist”, p.125, F+W Media, Inc.

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• Where humans are concerned, the only emotion that made sense was wonder, at their ability to endure.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Emotion, Wonder, Made

  Rohinton Mistry (2010). “A Fine Balance”, p.747, Vintage

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