16 quotes found
“To travel is to discover that human beings everywhere are human beings.”
“This has suggested to some that the very structure of human thought is oppositional-that is to say, rational and associative, rather than linear and categorical.”
“For eventually one gets over realitys affront to ones innocence. One grows accustomed to the melancholy fact that we all sell ourselves at one time or another, that whoring is the dirty little secr...”
“Life consists of many different stories. A person has not just one but countless life stories that weave in between each other and together create exactly that specific life and that specific human...”
“Plants or animals rarely behave in an unnatural manner thats contrary to their true makeup. Human beings are also natural beings, but at the same time, were conscious entities. We therefore have fr...”
“What matters is the living have breath!”
“...when I see a man or woman alone, he or she looks mysterious to me, which is only to say that for a moment I see another human being clearly.”
“Science fiction has no ceiling.”
“I have lived long enough to learn that the worst kind of beings, are human beings.”
“Nothing supernatural has ever harmed me. My wounds and losses have all be at the hands of human beings...”
“People who would refuse to share their bread shared their insanity instead.-Three Daughters of Eve”
“A first premonition of the rich variety of life had come to him; for the first time he thought he had understood the nature of human beings - they needed each other even when they appeared hostile,...”
“[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the wrong way, through lenses clouded by distraction, exhausti...”
“For eventually one gets over reality’s affront to one’s innocence. One grows accustomed to the melancholy fact that we all sell ourselves at one time or another, that whoring is the dirty little se...”
“Plants or animals rarely behave in an unnatural manner that’s contrary to their true makeup. Human beings are also natural beings, but at the same time, we’re conscious entities. We therefore have ...”
