Humans Quotes - Page 7

• There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents us from ever being utterly and irretrievably serious, from being unaware of the mysterious nature of our existence.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Serious, Spirit, Irony

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• the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith

  Ernest Becker

  Analysis, Existentialism, Problem

  Ernest Becker (2014). “The Denial of Death”, p.79, Souvenir Press

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• When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.

  Rollo May

  Reality, Existentialism, Dependent

  Rollo May (1994). “Existence”, p.27, Jason Aronson

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• All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fashion, Government, Fake

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• The idea that each of us can be directly spiritual is radical. Most religions are based not on teaching adherents to be directly spiritual, but in persuading them to trust in the intercession of ministers or priests. The problem with this approach is that we cannot gain access to spirituality except through the medium of a fallible human being. If we want to see Tao, we need only open our eyes and trust what we see.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Spiritual, Teaching, Eye

  Ming-Dao Deng (2013). “Everyday Tao: Living with Balance and Harmony”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• I’m no longer human and there is no past.’ (Acheron's litany)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Past

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Embrace”, p.60, Macmillan

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• As far as Death was aware, the sole reason for any human association with pigs and lambs was as a prelude to chops and sausages. Quite why they should dress up for children’s wallpaper as well was a mystery. Hello, little folk, this is what you’re going to eat… He felt that if only he could find the key to it, he’d know a lot more about human beings.

  Terry Pratchett

  Children, Keys, Pigs

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Hogfather: (Discworld Novel 20)”, p.411, Random House

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• Can you take human form in daylight? (Talon) Obviously so. Ever tried to answer a phone without opposable thumbs? (Vane)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Phones, Thumbs, Answers

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• Wolves don’t socialize with humans. You guys tend to freak out when you learn what we are. Not to mention, your females are rather frail. I don’t like having to hold back for fear of bruising or killing my partner when I mate. (Vane) And people think I speak my mind. Jeez. You will just say anything, won’t you? (Sunshine)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sunshine, Thinking, People

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Embrace”, p.315, St. Martin's Press

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• I am Darkness. I am Shadow. I am the Ruler of the Night. I, alone, stand between mankind and those who would see mankind destroyed. I am the Guardian. The Soulless Keeper. Neither Human, nor Apollite, I exist beyond the realm of the Living, beyond the realm of the Dead. I am the Dark-Hunter. And I am Eternal…unless I find that one pure heart who will never betray me. The one whose faith and courage can return my soul to me and bring me back into the light. (Dark-Hunter Creed)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Heart, Dark, Night

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• Ah, those were the days…The Dark-Hunters hunted us, we slaughtered them. We made our homes in underground catacombs and crypts where the Hunters couldn’t go without getting possessed. It was an interesting time to be Apollite or Daimon. But that was before we discovered civilization and modern conveniences. Before the human world developed enough to where we could exist at night under the pretense of being one of them. Apollites owning businesses and houses. Daimons playing Nintendo. What is this world coming to? (Thanatos)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Home, Dark, Night

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• Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.

  Marquis de Sade

  Believe, Two, Mad

  Marquis de Sade (2016). “Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man”, p.7, BoD – Books on Demand

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• All human beings search for either reasons to be good, or excuses to be bad.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Excuse, Reason, Be Good

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• Are you two having some sort of strange human thing that you can’t follow what I’m saying? (Simi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Two, Strange

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “The Dark-Hunters”, p.1393, Macmillan

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• ... women have their roots in the ground, and often those roots are starved and ravaged, yet there is not a human alive who cannot reach and touch, with... her fingers, the very top of God's rainbow.

  Og Mandino

  Roots, Rainbow, Alive

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• Nell was not one for friends and had never hidden her distaste for most other humans, their neurotic compulsion for the acquisition of allies.

  Kate Morton

  Allies, Acquisition, Compulsion

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• It is a very natural human trait to destroy that which frightens us.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Natural, Traits

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.137, Penguin

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• If human beings are all monsters, why should I sacrifice anything for them?" "Because they are beautiful monsters..., And when they live in a network of peace and hope, when they trust the world and their deepest hungers are fulfilled, then within that system, that delicate web, there is joy. That is what we live for, to bind the monsters together, to murder their fear and give birth to their beauty.

  Orson Scott Card

  Beautiful, Sacrifice, Giving

  Orson Scott Card (2003). “Wyrms”, p.68, Macmillan

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• She was forever tilted sideways by the notion that pain was inevitable, chance was cruel, and all human ingenuity should go towards the making of a good cup of tea.

  Colum McCann

  Pain, Forever, Tea

  "Zoli". Book by Colum McCann, 2007.

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• ...it is not possible to create the opposite of what one has always known, simply because the opposite is believed to be desired. Human beings need what they already know, even horrors.

  A. S. Byatt

  Opposites, Needs, Horror

  FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Sep 24, 2016

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• The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes--because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself--and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud.

  John Fowles

  Love, Memories, War

  John Fowles (1965). “The Magus”

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• This little piggy went to Hades This little piggy stayed home This little piggy ate raw and steaming human flesh This little piggy violated virgins And this little piggy clambered over a heap of dead bodies to get to the top

  Neil Gaiman

  Home, Body, Flesh

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