Humans Quotes - Page 33

• exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted. And while it is true that literature and history contain heroic, romantic, glorious, even triumphant episodes in an exile’s life, these are no more than efforts meant to overcome the crippling sorrow of estrangement.

  Edward Said

  Home, Sadness, Thinking

  Edward W. Said (2013). “Reflections On Exile: And Other Literary And Cultural Essays”, p.212, Granta Books

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• Listen up, Wanda. I know exactly what you don't want to be. But we're human, and we're selfish, and we don't always do the right thing. We aren't going to let you go. Deal with it.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Selfish, Want, Letting You Go

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• ... we shoved out many hopes and fears into their hands, believing those hands were strong because they had firm handshakes. They failed us, always. There was no way they could not fail us - they were human, and so were we.

  Isaac Marion

  Strong, Believe, Hands

  Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of the way. There is a virgin forest in each; a snowfield where even the print of birds' feet is unknown. Here we go alone, and like it better so. Always to have sympathy, always to be accompanied, always to be understood would be intolerable.

  Virginia Woolf

  Hands, Feet, Bird

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.104, Oxford University Press

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• All love craves unity. As the highest peak of love in the human order is the unity of husband and wife in the flesh, so the highest unity in the Divine order is the unity of the soul and Christ in communion.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Husband, Divine Order, Wife

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• He liked the fact that Venice had no cars. It made the city human. The streets were like veins, he thought, and the people were the blood, circulating everywhere.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Blood, Cities, Venice

  Patricia Highsmith (1999). “Talented Mr. Ripley ; Ripley under ground ; Ripley's game”, Random House, Inc.

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• We humans look rather different from a tree. Without a doubt we perceive the world differently than a tree does. But down deep, at the molecular heart of life, the trees and we are essentially identical.

  Carl Sagan

  Heart, Tree, Doubt

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.57, Ballantine Books

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• Every mystery ever solved had been a puzzle from the dawn of the human species right up until someone solved it.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Dawn, Mystery, Species

  "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality". Book by Eliezer Yudkowsky, 2010.

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• J_Doe032692 wrote: I am not a thin person. However this does not give people the right to taunt me, calling me ugly and worthless, telling me to kill myself because no one will ever want me, or to make up songs about why I am so fat and how much food I eat. NO ONE, I repeat, NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO HURT ANOTHER HUMAN BEING THIS BADLY. My throat constricts. The neck brace feels as if it's shrinking and cutting off my esophagus. I reach up and cover the words with my hand and the web site dissolves. I want to go. Now.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Song, Hurt, Cutting

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• The best any human can do is to pick a delusion that helps him get through the day

  Scott Adams

  Helping, Delusion, Can Do

  Scott Adams (2004). “God's Debris: A Thought Experiment”, p.29, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. Texting, email, posting, all of these things let us present the self as we want to be. We get to edit, and that means we get to delete, and that means we get to retouch, the face, the voice, the flesh, the body -- not too little, not too much, just right.

  Sherry Turkle

  Mean, Technology, Self

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• The humans were protecting their heritage, or so they thought. Strange that Mud Men seem more concerned about the past than the present.

  Eoin Colfer

  Past, Men, Heritage

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• I thought he'd pick me, I know he has kids, but when it came down to it, I really thought he'd pick me." Tears rolled down her face and her nose ran. She sniffed. "I know I'm selfish" "You're human" "I wanted him to abandon his children

  Anna McPartlin

  Children, Selfish, Kids

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• The Rights Revolutions too have given us ideals that educated people today take for granted but that are virtually unprecedented in human history, such as that people of all races and creeds have equal rights, that women should be free from all forms of coercion, that children should never, ever be spanked, that students should be protected from bullying, and that there’s nothing wrong with being gay. I don’t find it at all implausible that these are gifts, in part, of a refined and widening application of reason.

  Steven Pinker

  Bullying, Children, Gay

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• Hope is an essential thread in the fabric of all fantasies, an Ariadne's thread to guide us out of the labyrinth ... Human beings have always needed hope, and surely now more than ever.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Labyrinth, Essentials, Fabric

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• When I was fifteen, a dark shape came into my room at night. It was dark, but it glowed, which is the first of many facts you will have to tackle with your imagination. It wasn't in the shape of a person, but right away I knew it was like a person in every way except for how it looked. As it turns out, our looks are not the main thing that makes us human.

  Miranda July

  Dark, Night, Imagination

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• Then you have a big problem, because a human is a thinking animal. If you don't think, you're not really a human.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Animal, Thinking, Problem

  Jostein Gaarder (2010). “Sophie's World”, p.108, Hachette UK

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• What would Jesus, or any human being who isn't an asshole, do?

  Jon Stewart

  Jesus, Human Beings

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• No one can tell the difference between a clone and a human. That's because there isn't any difference. The idea of clones being inferior is a filthy lie.

  Nancy Farmer

  Lying, Ideas, Differences

  Nancy Farmer (2010). “The House of the Scorpion”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't believe in your "Good". I believe in human kindness.

  Vasily Grossman

  Kindness, Believe, I Believe

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• The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Soul, Perception, Flesh

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• I love you,” I said, causing his face to contort in pain. “I’m not a man so I do not have a heart that loves as a human does. I’m an immortal god that dwells with supreme power because I hold the keys to Death. But you are my existence. I am yours.” Hot tears streamed down my face as I stared into the face of someone who comprehended an emotion much stronger than my weak, feeble words of love.

  Abbi Glines

  Love, Pain, Heart

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• And I started to cry again, realizing that it must be changing him, too, this man who was kind enough to be a soul but strong as only a human could be.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Strong, Men, Soul

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• An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift

  Margaret Mead

  Culture, Ideals

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