Humans Quotes - Page 10

• Like many people, I feel like celebrating. Remember this feeling. It is human, and can help us understand when others express bloodlust.

  John Green

  People, Feelings, Bloodlust

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• So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive is human suffering, that even justice makes its victims, and we can conceive no retribution that does not spread beyond its mark in pulsations of unmerited pain.

  George Eliot

  Pain, Men, Justice

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6060, Delphi Classics

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• The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is not to describe nature, but to show you a world completely absorbed and possessed by the human mind.

  Northrop Frye

  Jobs, Two, Mind

  Northrop Frye (1996). “Collected Works of Northrop Frye: The educated imagination and other writings on critical theory 1933-1963”

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• Remember, he is not, like you, a pure spirit. Never having been a human (Oh that abominable advantage of the Enemy's) you don't realize how enslaved they are to the pressure of the ordinary.

  C. S. Lewis

  Enemy, Ordinary, Pressure

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Screwtape Letters”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• It's human nay-cha...For me to sperminay-cha.

  Megan McCafferty

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• She'd been acutely aware that terror, betrayal, and cruelty had a human face, but she had not sufficiently appreciated that courage, kindness, and love had a human face as well.

  Dean Koontz

  Love, Betrayal, Kindness

  Dean Koontz (2001). “Dark Rivers of the Heart/Intensity/Sole Survivor: Three Complete Novels by Dean Koontz”

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• violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble.

  Louis L'Amour

  Gun, Men, Rights

  Louis L'Amour (2011). “The Daybreakers and Sackett (2-Book Bundle)”, p.153, Bantam

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• Human nature is the same in all professions.

  Laurence Sterne

  Human Nature, Profession

  Laurence Sterne (1817). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”, p.167

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• But nothing disturbs the feeling of specialness like the presence of other human beings feeling identically special.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Feelings, Special, Human Beings

  Jonathan Franzen (2010). “Freedom: A Novel”, p.444, Macmillan

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• So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star. And as mere human knowledge can split a ray of light and analyse the manner of its composition, so, sublimer intelligences may read in the feeble shining of this earth of ours, every thought and act, every vice and virtue, of every responsible creature on it.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Stars, Lying

  Charles Dickens (2015). “A Tale of Two Cities: World Classics”, p.186, World Classic

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• The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.

  Donald Knuth

  Machines, Algorithms, Way

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• The Doctor: The Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire. And there it is: planet Earth at its height. Covered with megacities, five moons, population 96 billion. The hub of a galactic domain, stretching across a million planets, a million species. With mankind right in the middle. [Adam faints] The Doctor: [leans towards Rose, still looking out over the Earth] He's your boyfriend.

  Russell T Davies

  Moon, Doctors, Rose

  "Doctor Who: The Long Game". TV Series, May 7, 2005.

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• Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Humanity, Toil, Extravagance

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century”, Images from the Past Incorporated

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• It was the hat. He looked sweet in the hat. How could a man in a fuzzy blue hat have used human bones to pave his roads?

  Jennifer Egan

  Sweet, Men, Blue

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.107, Anchor

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• I have always disliked the morning, it is too responsible a time, with the daylight demanding that it be 'faced' and (usually when I wake for I wake late) with the sun already up and in charge of the world, with little hope of anyone usurping or challenging its authority. A shot of light in the face of a poor waking human being and another slave limps wounded into the light-occupied territory.

  Janet Frame

  Morning, Light, Challenges

  Janet Frame (1972). “Daughter Buffalo”

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• One serial killer sends me a human head in a box, and I get all spooked; Go figure.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Serial Killer, Killers, Figures

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2009). “Skin Trade: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.220, Penguin

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• He's at ease, his body sculpted to the music, his shoulder searching the other shoulder, his right toe knowing the left knee, the height, the depth, the form, the control, the twist of his wrist, the bend of his elbow, the tilt of his neck, notes digging into arteries, and he is in the air now, forcing the legs up beyond muscular memory, one last press of the thighs, an elongation of form, a loosening of human contour, he goes higher and is skyheld.

  Colum McCann

  Memories, Knowing, Air

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• All the labor of all the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction. So now, my friends, if that is true, and it is true, what is the point?

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspiration, Age, Genius

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• One of the hardest tasks as a human being is knowing when to keep an open mind, and when not to.

  Deb Caletti

  Knowing, Mind, Tasks

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• I felt no shame in these activities, because I understood what almost no one else seemed to grasp: that there was only an infinitesimal difference, a difference so small that it barely existed except as a figment of the human imagination, between working in a tall green glass building on Park Avenue and collecting litter in a park. In fact, there may have been no difference at all.

  Jennifer Egan

  Glasses, Differences, Imagination

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• I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men to be slaughtered, and the fathers who feel a smug pride when their sons are killed, and even the pacifists who keep saying human nature is essentially good, in spite of all the daily proofs to the contrary. I hate the planet and the human race—I am ashamed to belong to such a species.

  Bertrand Russell

  Father, Hate, Pride

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Autobiography”, p.289, Routledge

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• I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Dog, Selfish, Nice

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Anne of Green Gables Collection: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of the Island, and More Anne Shirley Books”, p.640, Xist Publishing

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• In short, Mrs. Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being, and to recongize her relations as an individual to the world within and about her. This may seem like a ponderous weight of wisdom to descend upon the soul of a young woman of twenty-eight - perhaps more wisdom than the Holy Ghost is usually pleased to vouchsafe to any woman.

  Kate Chopin

  Eight, Soul, Twenties

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.33

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• Humanity is part of nature, a species that evolved among other species. The more closely we identify ourselves with the rest of life, the more quickly we will be able to discover the sources of human sensibility and acquire the knowledge on which an enduring ethic, a sense of preferred direction, can be built.

  E. O. Wilson

  Rest Of Life, Humanity, Able

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• And Alex understood that Scotty Hausmann did not exist. He was a word casing in human form: a shell whose essence has vanished.

  Jennifer Egan

  Essence, Alex, Shells

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