Humans Quotes - Page 38

• 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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• The Divine is simply that which science has not yet explained. In effect, God = Infinity - Human Knowledge.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Infinity, Divine, Effects

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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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• Rose was so full of life and passion that sometimes she seemed more human than I was.

  Richelle Mead

  Passion, Rose, Sometimes

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.29, Penguin

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• Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic.

  Carl Sagan

  Book, Writing, People

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Book by Carl Sagan, 1990.

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• He looked exactly like a rat. Like the human being version of a rat. Like the villain in a Don Bluth movie.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Rats, Villain, Versions

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Eleanor & Park”, p.42, Macmillan

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• If you muster that courage to stand under fire and not go down, you will amass an inner strength that no one can touch. You won’t be another faceless, nameless, forgotten human in a long historical line of the defeated. You will be a steeled warrior, and a force to be forever reckoned with. And beneath the pain that lingers, you will have the comfort of knowing that you are strongest of all. That when others caved and broke, you kept fighting even against hopeless odds.” - Caleb

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Pain, Fighting, Warrior

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• God Tris, are you even human?

  Veronica Roth

  Tris

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• When you first take someone’s life, two people die. The person you just killed and the human being you used to be. You’re never the same after that—it changes you forever and not in a good way —and no matter how hard you try, you can’t go back to the innocence you had. Ever.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Two, People, Forever

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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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• 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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• For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes the adventure. We only work with it differently.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Life, Adventure, Journey

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• The world is full of actors pretending to be human

  J. D. Salinger

  Actors, World, Pretending

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• Why are we such tortured human beings, with tears in our eyes and false laughter on our lips? If you could walk alone among those hills or in the woods or along the long, white, bleached sands, in that solitude you would know what meditation is. The ecstasy of solitude comes when you are not frightened to be alone no longer belonging to the world or attached to anything. Then, like that dawn that came up this morning, it comes silently, and makes a golden path in the very stillness, which was at the beginning, which is now, and which will be always there.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Morning, Laughter, Eye

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• The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, World, Speech

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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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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• human relationships simply aren't durable. I think back to the women in my life. they seem non-existent.

  Charles Bukowski

  Thinking, Seems, Human Relationships

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “Love is a Dog From Hell”, p.38, Harper Collins

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• Writing is the greatest thing that can happen to a human being. It's the best.

  Joss Whedon

  Writing, Happens, Human Beings

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• You are the human clay," Vosch whispers fiercely in my ear. "And I am Michelangelo. I am the master builder, and you will be my masterpiece.

  Rick Yancey

  Ears, Clay, Masters

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.128, Penguin

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