Humans Quotes - Page 35

• But because human being tend to focus on short-term benefits and our own immediate needs, such tragedies of the commons occur frequently .

  Dan Ariely

  Focus, Tragedy, Needs

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• We’d hoped for love of a different kind, love that knew and forgave our human frailty but did not miniaturize our grander ideas of ourselves.

  Michael Cunningham

  Ideas, Different, Kind

  Michael Cunningham (2010). “A Home at the End of the World: A Novel”, p.172, Macmillan

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• Here is The Boy with the Thorn in His Side, dying in your world. A man made monster with every human emotion, overdosed on worthlessness in a world that could never wrap it’s head around him (so don’t even try). When it’s all over just remember every single word you ever said was always just a bullet to his head. Bury him underground between friends and love - the only things that are gonna make it to the end with him. Look for his body buried beneath where the yellow weeds are growing and know he’s still living in his nightmares.

  Pete Wentz

  Weed, Boys, Men

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• ...the ultimate dwindling resource in the human arrangement isn’t cheap oil or potable water or even common sense, but mercy.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Oil, Common Sense, Water

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.12, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• This love was tricky...was it simply better somehow? Because these humans could hate with so much fury, was the other end of the spectrum that they could love with more heart and zeal and fire?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Hate, Heart, Fire

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• I will say this quite plainly, what truly human is -and don't be afraid of this word- love. And I mean it even with everything that burdens love or, i could say it better, responsibility is actually love, as Pascal said: 'without concupiscence' [without lust]... love exists without worrying being loved.

  Emmanuel Levinas

  Mean, Responsibility, Worry

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• Well, first of all," said the BFG, "human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist.

  Roald Dahl

  Believe, Thinking, Giants

  Roald Dahl (2007). “The BFG”, p.31, Penguin

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• If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.

  Victor Hugo

  Stones, Sensitive, Plant

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• I still believe that you truly find yourself not in travel, but in other human souls.

  Emma Forrest

  Believe, Soul, Finding Yourself

  Emma Forrest (2012). “Your Voice in My Head”, p.198, A&C Black

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• Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Honesty, Talking, People

  Akira Kurosawa, Donald Richie (1987). “Rashomon”, p.122, Rutgers University Press

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• Human love is directed to the other person for his own sake, spiritual love loves him for Christ's sake. Therefore, human love seeks direct contact with the other person; it loves him not as a free person but as one whom it binds to itself.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Spiritual, Mean, Love Is

  "Life Togehter".

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• In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human.

  Elie Wiesel

  Dark, Rose, Humanity

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• Humans waste words. They toss them like banana peels and leave them to rot. Everyone knows the peels are the best part.

  Katherine Applegate

  Waste, Toss, Bananas

  Katherine Applegate (2012). “The One and Only Ivan”, p.13, HarperCollins UK

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• Beauty,’ Brimstone had scoffed once. ‘Humans are fools for it. As helpless as moths who hurl themselves at fire.

  Laini Taylor

  Fire, Fool, Moths

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• Even when we lose an arm or a leg, there's not less of us but more. Human experience weighs more than human tissue.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Tissues, Legs, Arms

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• The old restriction meant that only the orthodox were allowed to discuss religion. Modern liberty means that nobody is allowed to discuss it. Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest have failed.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mean, Liberty, Superstitions

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• ...that was the way human beings are; they love to be told what to do, but they love even more to fight and not do what they are told, and thus they get entangled in hating the one who told them in the first place.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Hate, Fighting, Way

  Carlos Castaneda (1991). “Second Ring of Power”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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• But it was pointless, it was stupid; he thought about thoughtless things. If I were a seabird . . . but how could you be a seabird? If you were a seabird your brain would be tiny and stupid and you would love half-rotted fish guts and tweaking the eyes out of little grazing animals; you would know no poetry and you could never appreciate flying as fully as the human on the ground yearning to be you. If you wanted to be a seabird you deserved to be one.

  Iain Banks

  Stupid, Eye, Animal

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• exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted. And while it is true that literature and history contain heroic, romantic, glorious, even triumphant episodes in an exile’s life, these are no more than efforts meant to overcome the crippling sorrow of estrangement.

  Edward Said

  Home, Sadness, Thinking

  Edward W. Said (2013). “Reflections On Exile: And Other Literary And Cultural Essays”, p.212, Granta Books

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• ... we shoved out many hopes and fears into their hands, believing those hands were strong because they had firm handshakes. They failed us, always. There was no way they could not fail us - they were human, and so were we.

  Isaac Marion

  Strong, Believe, Hands

  Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• We humans look rather different from a tree. Without a doubt we perceive the world differently than a tree does. But down deep, at the molecular heart of life, the trees and we are essentially identical.

  Carl Sagan

  Heart, Tree, Doubt

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.57, Ballantine Books

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• Every mystery ever solved had been a puzzle from the dawn of the human species right up until someone solved it.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Dawn, Mystery, Species

  "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality". Book by Eliezer Yudkowsky, 2010.

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• The best any human can do is to pick a delusion that helps him get through the day

  Scott Adams

  Helping, Delusion, Can Do

  Scott Adams (2004). “God's Debris: A Thought Experiment”, p.29, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. Texting, email, posting, all of these things let us present the self as we want to be. We get to edit, and that means we get to delete, and that means we get to retouch, the face, the voice, the flesh, the body -- not too little, not too much, just right.

  Sherry Turkle

  Mean, Technology, Self

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