Humans Quotes - Page 30

• The food crank is by definition a person willing to cut himself off from human society in the hopes of adding five years onto the life of his carcase; that is, a person out of touch with common humanity.

  George Orwell

  Cutting, Years, Common Humanity

  George Orwell (2001). “Orwell's England: the Road to Wigan Pier in the context of essays, reviews, letters and poems selected from the Complete works of George Orwell”, ePenguin

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• For a man’s life would become intolerable, if he knew what was going to happen to him. He would be made aware of future evils, and would suffer their agonies in advance, while he would get no joy of present blessings since he would know how they would end. Ignorance is the necessary condition of human happiness, and it has to be admitted that on the whole mankind observes that condition well. We are almost entirely ignorant of ourselves; absolutely of others. In ignorance, we find our bliss; in illusions, our happiness.

  Anatole France

  Ignorance, Blessing, Men

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• So he's like a human compass? As far as superpowers go, that's pretty lame. You're like the Caster equivalent of Aquaman.

  Kami Garcia

  Lame, Compass, Superpower

  Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2010). “Beautiful Darkness”, p.118, Penguin UK

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• Of everything that man erects and builds in his urge for living nothing is in my eyes better and more valuable than bridges. They are more important than houses, more sacred than shrines. Belonging to everyone and being equal to everyone, useful, always built with a sense, on the spot where most human needs are crossing, they are more durable than other buildings and they do not serve for anything secret or bad.

  Ivo Andric

  Eye, Men, Bridges

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• I let my face go blank and nodded slowly. "Yes.The trolls.Back. With me. Cannot form.Complete sentences." I shook my head. "Yeah,so not happening." He considered me,annoyed and at a loss for what to do next."I don't kill humans." "Me niether!See,common ground already.

  Kiersten White

  Loss, Annoyed, Next

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• A human being is a problem in search of a solution.

  Robert Ardrey

  Problem, Solutions, Human Beings

  Robert Ardrey (1968). “Plays of three decades”

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• In the human heart there is a built-in obsolescence factor. It does not matter how powerful and influential you are, how much education you have, how selfcontrolled or holy you consider yourself—your heart, if you do not guard it, will break down.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Powerful, Heart, Doe

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• People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is defined as "the constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken."... Understood, however, as the prerequisite of great accomplishment, diligence stands as one of the most difficult challenges facing any group of people who take on tasks of risk and consequence. It sets a high, seemingly impossible, expectation for performance and human behavior.

  Atul Gawande

  People, Accomplishment, Expectations

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• Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.

  Honore de Balzac

  Humility, Anti Bullying, Suffering

  Honore de Balzac, Pierre F. Limouzy (1999). “CliffsNotes on Balzac's Pere Goriot”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We believe that an individual must endeavor to assume the universalism inherent in the human condition.

  Frantz Fanon

  Believe, Assuming, Individual

  Frantz Fanon (2008). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.14, Grove Press

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• I was born in a place humans call central Africa, in a dense rain forest so beautiful, no crayons could ever do it justice.

  Katherine Applegate

  Beautiful, Rain, Justice

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• I find myself thinking about my ongoing existence as a human being and the path that lies ahead of me. Though of course these thoughts lead to but one place - death.

  Haruki Murakami

  Lying, Thinking, Ongoing

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “The Elephant Vanishes”, p.220, Random House

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• Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

  Mark Twain

  Boys, Men, Order

  Mark Twain (1992). “Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn”, p.14, Wordsworth Editions

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• Tuatha De do not walk the human realm alone. Actually, they don't walk alone much anywhere. Only the occasional rogue Fae will do so." "Like yourself?" "Yes Most of my kind have no fondness for solitude. Those who walk alone are not to be trusted." "Really," she said dryly. "Except for me," he amended, with a faint, insouciant grin.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Solitude, Fae, Rogues

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• This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.

  Neal Stephenson

  Two, Mind, Labyrinth

  Neal Stephenson (2014). “The Baroque Cycle: Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World”, p.214, Harper Collins

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• Thomas hated the people who'd taken this poor, innocent kid form his family. He hated them with a passion he didn't know a human could feel. He wanted them dead, tortured, even. He wanted Chuck to be happy. But happiness had been ripped form their lives. Love had been ripped from their lives.

  James Dashner

  Taken, Passion, Love Life

  James Dashner (2014). “The Maze Runner: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.194, RH Childrens Books

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• Sometimes I’ve even wished there was a human pause button, where you could choose some point in your life where you could stay always.

  Deb Caletti

  Buttons, Sometimes, Pauses

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

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• Human beings are inherently endowed with the power to bring out the best possible results from the worst possible circumstances.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Results, Circumstances, Worst

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• One of the most unattractive human traits, and so easy to fall into, is resentment at the sudden shared popularity of a previously private pleasure. Which of us hasn't been annoyed when a band, writer, artist or television series that had been a minority interest of ours has suddenly achieved mainstream popularity? When it was at a cult level we moaned at the philistinism of a world that didn't appreciate it, and now that they do appreciate it we're all resentful and dog-in-the-manger about it.

  Stephen Fry

  Dog, Fall, Artist

  Stephen Fry (2012). “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography”, p.204, The Overlook Press

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• Humans were built to look back; that's why we have that swivel joint in our necks

  Stephen King

  Looks, Joints, Necks

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• My name is Jared Howe. I haven't spoken to another human being in more than two years, so I'm sure I must seem...a little crazy to you.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Crazy, Years, Names

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• I told him they built a statue of Schultz, and then he said that a monument is cold comfort to a dead man, and then I said that the statue was built not for Schultz, but for us--to remind us how to be human.

  John Green

  Men, Comfort, Cold

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• why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most

  David Mitchell

  Beautiful, Needs, Despise

  David Mitchell (2007). “Number9Dream: A Novel”, p.209, Random House

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• There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters. Even trashy bestsellers show people changing. When a fictional work fails to show change, when it merely indicates that human character is set, stony, unregenerable, then you are out of field of the novel and into that of the fable or the allegory. - from the introduction of the 1986 Norton edition

  Anthony Burgess

  Writing, Character, People

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• ...This is the only way. I will not allow humans or fairies to die when I might have prevented it.” Butler would not give up. “Listen to yourself. You sound like a... like a good guy! There’s nothing in this for you.

  Eoin Colfer

  Giving Up, Guy, Might

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