Humans Quotes - Page 37

• Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Grief, Eye, Strange

  Charlotte Bronte (2010). “Shirley and The Professor”, p.177, Everyman's Library

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• Because this exact leaf had to grow in that exact way, in that exact place, so that precise wind could tear it from that precise branch and make it fly into this exact face at that exact moment. And, if just one of those tiny little things had never had happened, I'd never have met ya. Which makes this leaf the most important leaf in human history

  Neil Cross

  Wind, Important, Tears

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• Contrary to what you think, not all preternatural beings hang out at the local Supernatural Pub looking for humans and dates.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, Pubs, Hanging Out

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “Inferno: Chronicles of Nick”, p.64, Macmillan

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• The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Song, Want, Facts

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.43, SCM Press

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• If unconditional love, loyalty, and obedience are the tickets to an eternal life, then my black Labrador, Venus, will surely be there long before me, along with all the dear animals in nature who care for their young at great cost to themselves and have suffered so much at the hands of humans.

  Richard Rohr

  Loyalty, Unconditional Love, Animal

  Richard Rohr (2013). “Immortal Diamond: The search for our true self”, p.124, SPCK

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• I know and share the many sorrows a human being can experience, but I do not cling to them; they pass through me, like life itself, as a broad eternal stream...and life continues.

  Etty Hillesum

  Sorrow, Share, Broads

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.308, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The way to real growth is not to become more powerful or more famous, but to become more human and more tolerant.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Powerful, Real, Growth

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• you once said to would like to sit beside me while I write. Listen in that case I could not write at all. For writing means revealing one self to excess; that utmost of self-revelation and surrender, in which a human being, when involved with others, would feel he was losing himself, and from which, therefore, he will always shrink as long as he is in his right mind...That is why one can never be alone enough when one writes, why there can never be enough silence around one when one writes, why even night is not night enough.

  Susan Cain

  Writing, Mean, Night

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• This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.

  David Benioff

  Good Life, Fighting, Barbarians

  David Benioff (2008). “City of Thieves: A Novel”, p.32, Penguin

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• Humans are threatened by anything different, and their response is to fight. They're bullies, picking on the weak, cowering from the strong.

  J.R. Ward

  Strong, Fighting, Bully

  J.R. Ward (2005). “Dark Lover: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.221, Penguin

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• Detectives are only human; we're not Gods that know everything. When detectives tell their theory, in reality, most are rather anxious. Thinking that there's always possibility that they could have missed something, somewhere... But in return, the excitement you experience when your theory's smack bang correct is twice as great!

  Gosho Aoyama

  Reality, Thinking, Bangs

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• Reality is something the human race doesn't handle very well.

  Gore Vidal

  Reality, Race, Wells

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• It’s the same reason I don’t get Hooters. Why do we need to enjoy chicken wings and boobies at the same time? Yes, they are a natural and beautiful part of the human experience. And so are boobies. But why at the same time?

  Tina Fey

  Beautiful, Wings, Needs

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• The Divine is simply that which science has not yet explained. In effect, God = Infinity - Human Knowledge.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Infinity, Divine, Effects

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• We all have demons inside us, Nick. The Tsalagi have an old saying—every heart holds two wolves. One is the white wolf, who is made up of love, kindness, respect, decency, compassion, and all the things that are good in life. The black wolf is born of jealousy, hatred, pettiness, prejudice, vindictiveness, and all the poisons of the human personality. The two constantly war with each other for dominance. And one day, one wolf will overtake and devour the other.” - Acheron

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Kindness, War, Heart

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “Inferno: Chronicles of Nick”, p.71, Macmillan

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• When you first take someone’s life, two people die. The person you just killed and the human being you used to be. You’re never the same after that—it changes you forever and not in a good way —and no matter how hard you try, you can’t go back to the innocence you had. Ever.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Two, People, Forever

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• If you muster that courage to stand under fire and not go down, you will amass an inner strength that no one can touch. You won’t be another faceless, nameless, forgotten human in a long historical line of the defeated. You will be a steeled warrior, and a force to be forever reckoned with. And beneath the pain that lingers, you will have the comfort of knowing that you are strongest of all. That when others caved and broke, you kept fighting even against hopeless odds.” - Caleb

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Pain, Fighting, Warrior

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• Humans were always surprising me.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Surprising

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “The Host”, p.326, Hachette UK

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• All great artists know that part of their task is to light up the distance between two human beings.

  Nadeem Aslam

  Distance, Artist, Light

  Nadeem Aslam (2011). “Maps for Lost Lovers”, p.13, Faber & Faber

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• No one should ever compromise the dignity of another human being.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Dignity, Compromise, Should

  Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.115, Bantam

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• Rose was so full of life and passion that sometimes she seemed more human than I was.

  Richelle Mead

  Passion, Rose, Sometimes

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.29, Penguin

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• Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic.

  Carl Sagan

  Book, Writing, People

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Book by Carl Sagan, 1990.

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• Oh, dear Hazel.” Aphrodite folded her fan. “Such optimism, yet you have heartrending days ahead of you. Of course war is coming. Love and war always go together. They are the peaks of human emotion! Evil and good, beauty and ugliness.

  Rick Riordan

  War, Evil, Optimism

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• He looked exactly like a rat. Like the human being version of a rat. Like the villain in a Don Bluth movie.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Rats, Villain, Versions

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Eleanor & Park”, p.42, Macmillan

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• An orgasm is not what I want and I know it. What I want, need, is so much more than that. It's the connection.The exhilarating contact with this human being, a being that compels me like no other. I miss his touch, his kiss. I don't care if he gives me just a little kernel of what he can give; I'm just starving to be fed, and my body has never been like this hungry.

  Katy Evans

  Kissing, Giving, Missing

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