Humans Quotes - Page 36

• In the traditional Islamic world, the hierarchy of the arts was not based on whether they were "fine" or "industrial" or "minor". It was based upon the effect of art on the soul of the human being.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Art, Islamic, Soul

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• I never thought... that someone liked me... not like a demon... not like a half-demon... not even like human... just like... just like me!" -Inuyasha

  Rumiko Takahashi

  Half, Demon, Inuyasha

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• I have no wish to take life, not even human life

  George Orwell

  Wish, Human Life

  George Orwell (2001). “The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four”, p.32, Penguin UK

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• Nothing so reduces and drags down a human being as the consciousness of not being loved.

  Hjalmar Söderberg

  Consciousness, Drag, Human Beings

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• A single raised eyebrow. "You've defected, sweetheart. No use worrying about the big, bad wolf now." She was aware of Judd speaking, but her attention never shifted off the man who was a predator, for all that he wore human skin. When he peeled open and held out a bar of some kind, she took it, aware low energy levels could be dangerous when it came to her ability to keep a handle on the cold fire. "Thank you." A faint smile, a strange amusement in those icy eyes. "You're welcome." It was the most polite interaction they'd ever had.

  Nalini Singh

  Eye, Men, Fire

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• Jared glared balefully at the old man, his eyes full of the shock and pain of the betrayed. I had only human comparisons for such a look. Caesar and Brutus, Jesus and Judas.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Jesus, Pain, Eye

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “The Host”, p.217, Hachette UK

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• No, I had never intentionally caused anyone physical pain, but I had hurt Ian deeply enough just by hurting myself. Human lives were so impossibly tangled. What a mess.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Hurt, Pain, Tangled

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• Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Stars, Apes, Bananas

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• We spoke of how to say good-bye,” Jem said. “When Jonathan bid farewell to David, he said, ‘Go in peace, for as much as we have sworn, both of us, saying the Lord be between me and thee, forever.’ They did not see each other again, but they did not forget. So it will be with us. When I am Brother Zachariah, when I no longer see the world with my human eyes, I will still be in some part the Jem you knew, and I will see you with the eyes of my heart.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Farewell, Heart

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• Who wants to be a goddess when we can be human? Perfection is a flaw disguised as control.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Perfection, Want, Flaws

  Terry Tempest Williams (2012). “When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice”, p.88, Macmillan

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• There is no normal. I've never met a normal person. The concept is flawed. It implies that there is only one way people are supposed to be, and that can't possible be true. Human experience is far too varied.

  Maureen Johnson

  People, Way, Normal

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• Self-awareness is a trait that not only makes us human but also paradoxically makes us want to be more than merely human. As I said in my BBC Reith Lectures, “Science tells us we are merely beasts, but we don’t feel like that. We feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, forever craving transcendence

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Angel, Self, Forever

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• A soul isn't given for free. The races of men fight each other to the death for the honor of being recognized as human beings, with souls.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Fighting, Men, Race

  Daniel H. Wilson (2011). “Robopocalypse”, p.252, Simon and Schuster

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• Back then, things were plainer: less money, no electronic devices, little fashion tyranny, no girlfriends. There was nothing to distract us from our human and filial duty which was to study, pass exams, use those qualifications to find a job, and then put together a way of life unthreateningly fuller than that of our parents, who would approve, while privately comparing it to their own earlier lives, which had been simpler, and therefore superior.

  Julian Barnes

  Fashion, Girlfriend, Jobs

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• Everyone is a criminal! We are beset on all sides by antirevolutionary forces. Naturally, then, humans fall into three categories: the criminal, the not-yet-criminal, and the not-yet-caught.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Fall, Sides, Criminals

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.131, Macmillan

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• There was human goodness in the world, she thought-all caught up with desires and dreams, regrets and bitterness, resentments and power, but it was there.

  Cassandra Clare

  Dream, Regret, Desire

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• The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Tides, Beast, Burden

  Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn (2009). “Half the Sky”, p.250, Vintage

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• The entire history of human desire takes about seventy minutes to tell. Unfortunately, we don’t have that kind of time.

  Richard Siken

  Desire, Kind, Minutes

  Richard Siken, “Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out”

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• Spirituality emerged as a fundamental guidepost in Wholeheartedness. Not religiosity but the deeply held belief that we are inextricably connected to one another by a force greater than ourselves--a force grounded in love and compassion. For some of us that's God, for others it's nature, art, or even human soulfulness. I believe that owning our worthiness is the act of acknowledging that we are sacred. Perhaps embracing vulnerability and overcoming numbing is ultimately about the care and feeding of our spirits.

  Brené Brown

  Art, Believe, Compassion

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• I miss you, Eleanor. I want to be with you all the time. You’re the smartest girl I’ve ever met, and the funniest, and everything you do surprises me. And I wish I could say that those are the reasons I like you, because that would make me sound like a really evolved human being …‘But I think it’s got as much to do with your hair being red and your hands being soft … and the fact that you smell like homemade birthday cake

  Rainbow Rowell

  Girl, I Like You, Thinking

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.101, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Here and gone. That’s what it is to be human, I think—to be both someone and no one at once, to hold a particular identity in the world (our names, our place of origins, our family and affectional ties) and to feel that solid set of ties also capable of dissolution, slipping away, as we become moments of attention.

  Mark Doty

  Thinking, Names, Ties

  Mark Doty (2001). “Still Life with Oysters and Lemon”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Heart, Men, Made

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• Words were one of the most powerful forces known— or unknown— to man. The Most High had created this world with His words. And humans, who had been fashioned in His image, could direct the entire course of their lives with their words, their mouths as the rudder on a ship, as the bridle on a horse. They produced with their words. They destroyed with their words.

  Gena Showalter

  Horse, Powerful, Men

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• It is remarkable indeed how we human beings are capable of delighting in the mating call of a flower while we are surrounded by the charred carcasses of our fellow animals.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Flower, Animal, Mating

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I don’t want to be Nephilim,” said Jace. “I want to be something else. Stronger, faster, better than human. But different. Not subservient to the Laws of an angel who couldn’t care less about us. Free.” He ran his hand through a curl of her hair. “I’m happy now, Clary. Doesn’t that make a difference?

  Cassandra Clare

  Angel, Hair, Hands

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.384, Simon and Schuster

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