Humans Quotes - Page 8

• All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.

  John Marsden

  Evil, Mosquitoes, Dragonflies

  John Marsden (1995). “Tomorrow, When the War Began”, p.246, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If it happens that the human race doesn't make it, then the fact that we were here once will not be altered, that once upon a time we peopled this astonishing blue planet, and wondered intelligently at everything about it and the other things who lived here with us on it, and that we celebrated the beauty of it in music and art, architecture, literature, and dance, and that there were times when we approached something godlike in our abilities and aspirations. We emerged out of depthless mystery, and back into mystery we returned,and in the end the mystery is all there is.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Art, Race, Blue

  James Howard Kunstler (2007). “The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Cent”, p.21, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?

  Wilkie Collins

  Fall, Sometimes, Persevere

  Wilkie Collins (2015). “Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins”, p.159, e-artnow sro

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• She raised her head finally. He looked the same, but then, he always did. She'd seem him kill twice, and he betrayed no reaction at all. He was a monster, not even human. But he was her monster.

  Anne Stuart

  Monsters, Betrayed, Reactions

  Anne Stuart (2005). “Black Ice”, Mira Books

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• How had it happened, Simon thought, that he was bound to these people—to people who thought of him as nothing more than a Downworlder, half human at best?

  Cassandra Clare

  People, Half, Bounds

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.894, Simon and Schuster

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• One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

  Voltaire

  Simple, Enlightenment, Ends

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• A day came when I should have died, and after that nothing seemed very important. So I have stayed as I am, without regret, separated from the normal human condition.

  Guy Sajer

  Regret, Should Have, Important

  Guy Sajer (2000). “The Forgotten Soldier”, p.9, Potomac Books, Inc.

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• Jonah Griggs. Not just a name but a state of mind I never want to revisit, although I do keep him at the back of my mind for those times I get me hopes raised about something. So then I can slap myself into reality and remind myself of what happens when you let someone into your sacred space. Jonah Griggs is my second reminder to never ever trust another human being. My mother was first.

  Melina Marchetta

  Mother, Reality, Names

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• I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals that have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed empty to me. The trite objects of human efforts - possessions, outward success, luxury - have always seemed to me contemptible.

  Albert Einstein

  Art, Kindness, Men

  "Mein Weltbild". Book by Albert Einstein, 1931.

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• That story placed man above the animals, until man's fall at Eve's hand, and linked humans to God himself, fashioned in his image. But now the black wolf was telling the girl a grave secret. That man was an animal too.

  David Clement-Davies

  Girl, Fall, Animal

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• You could not give up a human heart as you could give up drinking. The drink was yours, and you could give it up: but your lover’s soul was not your own: it was not at your disposal; you had a duty towards it.

  T. H. White

  Giving Up, Drinking, Heart

  T.H. WHITE (1958). “THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING”

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• The only thing that guarantees an open-ended collaboration among human beings, the only thing that guarantees that this project is truly open-ended, is a willingness to have our beliefs and behaviors modified by the power of conversation.

  Sam Harris

  Atheist, Guarantees That, Atheism

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• It's not just the embarrassment of tears. That's part of it, no doubt, but what embarrasses me much more, and always will, is the paralysis that took my heart. A moral freeze: I couldn't decide, I couldn't act, I couldn't comport myself with even a pretense of modest human dignity.

  Tim O'Brien

  Heart, Doubt, Tears

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Suicide is a fundamental human right. This does not mean that it is desirable. It only means that society does not have the moral right to interfere, by force, with a persons decision to commit this act. The result is a far-reaching infantilization and dehumanization of the suicidal person.

  Thomas Szasz

  Suicide, Suicidal, Mean

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• Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience. To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable. Sanity, in other words, becomes a pressing preoccupation as soon as we recognize the importance of recognition. When we define ourselves by what we can recognize, by what we can comprehend- rather than, say, by what we can describe- we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see. We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.

  Adam Phillips

  Blind Spots, Limits, Recognition

  Adam Phillips (2005). “Going sane”, Egully.com

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• All I know is that so long I am asleep I am rid of all fears and hopes and toils and glory, and long live the man who invented sleep, the cloak that covers all human thirst.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Sleep, Men, Long

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• There was nothing particularly wrong with them; they were just the ordinary garden variety of human garbage.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Garden, Ordinary, Garbage

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.458, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within the mirror, the author can see fragments of an objective reality that comprise the physical universe, social communities, political dynamics, and other facets of human existence. Looking in certain other corners of the same mirror, he or she may experience glimpses of a True Self sheltered deftly behind a mask of public proprieties.

  Aberjhani

  Writing, Reality, Mirrors

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.4, Lulu.com

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• Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Painting, Conclusion

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.221, Penguin

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• Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Stupid, Suffering, Resolution

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.547, Delphi Classics

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• The truth now.He was disappointed in human beings.He had seen too many betrayals,too many pitiful weaknesses,too much greed for money and fame.The falseness between lovers,husbands and wifes,fathers,sons,mothers,daughters

  Mario Puzo

  Daughter, Mother, Husband

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• Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring - this is one of the harshest human miseries.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Misery, Boring, Loveless

  "The Poet and the World". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 07, 1996.

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• Books make up no small part of human happiness.

  Frederick The Great

  Happiness, Book, Small Parts

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• One wonders, in fact, why marriage is a legal issue at all - apart from its relevance to immigration and property laws. Why would something so integral to human nature require such vigilant legal protection?

  Christopher Ryan

  Law, Issues, Immigration

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• I fear it, for her sake. It would mean that she too is a wanderer now, and that is a fate for human beings, not for unicorns. But I hope, of course I hope.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Mean, Fate, Sake

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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