Humans Quotes - Page 38

• Life is a mess, Rose said. You can fix the mess human beings make, Rose said, But you can't fix the mess being human is.

  Tom Spanbauer

  Rose, Life Is, Being Human

  Tom Spanbauer (2007). “In the City of Shy Hunters”, p.254, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.

  Agatha Christie

  Faces, Mask, Human Faces

  Agatha Christie (1962). “Make Mine Murder: Including: Appointment with Death, Peril at the End House [and] Sad Cypress”

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• That's the problem with having a moral code. We want to destroy the jerkish part of the jerks, but we want to save the human being underneath.

  David Levithan

  Want, Moral, Problem

  Andrea Cremer, David Levithan (2013). “Invisibility”, p.173, Penguin

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• Some things are beyond human understanding.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Understanding

  Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.204, Macmillan

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• ..there is hope. That's the marvelous thing about being human. We can change our future. We need not be enslaved by the experiences of the past. We can learn to love even when we have not received love.

  Gary Chapman

  Inspirational Love, Past, Needs

  Gary D. Chapman (2017). “The 5 Love Languages Singles Edition: The Secret That Will Revolutionize Your Relationships”, p.30, Moody Publishers

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• Moroi shied from the sunlight but as I watched Sydney, I knew without a doubt that humans had been made for the sun.

  Richelle Mead

  Doubt, Sun, Made

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• This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

  Alice Hoffman

  Changed, All Things, Moved

  Twitter post from Jul 02, 2016

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• She missed the built environment of New York City. It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that she could situate herself in human time and history. She missed people. She missed human intrigue, drama and power struggles. She needed her own species, not to talk to, necessarily, but just to be among, as a bystander in a crowd or an anonymous witness.

  Ruth Ozeki

  New York, Drama, Struggle

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• For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold. Whoever is dissatisfied with himself is constantly ready for revenge, and we others will be his victims, if only by having to endure his ugly sight.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Revenge, Mean

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.233, Vintage

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• We'll meet you here. Hopefully everyone will be in human form." A wry smile. "Though I'll warn you, he's not a whole lot more pleasant that way. At least as a wolf, he can't talk.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Wry Smile, Way, Form

  Kelley Armstrong (2013). “The Rising: Number 3 in series”, p.201, Hachette UK

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• Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers and it would be foolish to deny it. Rejection of human solidarity, obtuse and cynical indifference to the suffering of others, abdication of the intellect and of moral sense to the principle of authority, and above all, at the root of everything, a sweeping tide of cowardice, a colossal cowardice which masks itself as warring virtue, love of country and faith in an idea.

  Primo Levi

  Country, Roots, Air

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• We are all human, and our senses are quicker to prompt us than our reason. Every man gives off a scent, and that scent tells you how to act before your head does.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Men, Giving, Doe

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• Human sympathy has its limits.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Limits

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli (1991). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby”, p.220, Cambridge University Press

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• That was what humans did: They left on another messages through time, pressed between pages or carved into rock. Like reaching out a hand through time, and trusting in a phantom hoped-for hand to catch yours. Humans did not last forever. They could only hope what they made would endure.

  Cassandra Clare

  Rocks, Hands, Forever

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2014). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• We live forever by the grace of human love, which rocked strange children in their cradles and did not despair and did not turn away.

  Cassandra Clare

  Children, Forever, Grace

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2014). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again?

  Jodi Picoult

  Mean, Monsters, Definitions

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.410, Simon and Schuster

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• What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?

  Anton Chekhov

  Human Beings

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• Idiot - A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but "pervades and regulates the whole." He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions and opinion of taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Fashion, Powerful, Decision

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.150, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a rock star and you'll think "they'll remember me now," but (a) they don't remember you, and (b) all you leave behind are more scars. Your coup becomes a dictatorship. Your minimall becomes a lesion.

  John Green

  Stars, Thinking, Rocks

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, 2012.

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• The history of empires is the record of human misery; the history of the sciences is that of the greatness and happiness of mankind.

  Edward Gibbon

  Empires, Misery

  "The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon".

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• I finally knew... why Christ's prayer in the garden could not be granted. He had been seeded and birthed into human flesh. He was one of us. Once He had become mortal, He could not become immortal except by dying. That He prayed the prayer at all showed how human He was. That He knew it could not be granted showed his divinity; that He prayed it anyhow showed His mortality, His mortal love of life that His death made immortal.

  Wendell Berry

  Prayer, Love Life, Garden

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• A blessed thing it is to have a friend; one human soul whom we can trust utterly; who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults; who will speak the honest truth to us, while the world flatters us to our face, and laughs at us behind our back; who will give us counsel and reproof in a day of prosperity and self-conceit; but who, again, will comfort and encourage us in days of difficulty and sorrow, when the world leaves us alone to fight our own battle as we can.

  Charles Kingsley

  Blessed, Fighting, Self

  Charles Kingsley (1881). “The Works of Charles Kingsley”

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• God Tris, are you even human?

  Veronica Roth

  Tris

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• A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman's heart in particular.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Heart, Strange, Particular

  Mikhail Lermontov (2015). “A Hero of Our Time”, p.105, Xist Publishing

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• The things that really shake the human soul aren't beauty or kindness. Although such things are certainly moving, but those feelings don't last long. But... anger or sadness are different. They leave an undelible mark. Even after the wound heals... you can never forget the pain completely.

  Fuyumi Soryo

  Kindness, Pain, Moving

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