637 quotes found
“To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion?There is nobodyhere among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful games and tradition and emulation, all so skilfully organised to pr...”
“Within perfect walls there is nothing worth protecting. There is, in fact, nothing. And so we exchange privacy for intimacy.”
“What a piece of work is man!”
“Such is the pure movement of nature prior to all reflection. Such is the force of natural pity, which the most depraved mores still have difficulty destroying, since everyday one sees in our theate...”
“In silence alone does a man's truth bind itself together and strike root.”
“You learn nothing about men by snubbing them and crushing their pride. You must ask them what it is they can do in this world, that they alone can do.”
“A man couldn't do what he did. He's a monster."I laughed. "Ain't no monster. Monsters ain't real 'cept in kids' imaginations, under the beds, in the closets. We live in a world a' men and there ain...”
“Humans are amphibians...half spirit and half animal...as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means that while their spirit can be directed to an eternal...”
“The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct acts sooner or later to eliminate the indiv...”
“The people naturally adhere most to doctrines which demand the least self-exertion and the least use of their own reason, and which can best accommodate their duties to their inclinations.”
“We are all flawed and creatures of our times. Is it fair to judge us by the unknown standards of the future?”
“Let us suppose that the great empire of China, with all its myriads of inhabitants, was suddenly swallowed up by an earthquake, and let us consider how a man of humanity in Europe, who had no sort ...”
“What are we, if not an accumulation of our memories?”
“Nature has gone to great lengths to hide our subconscious from ourselves. Why?”
“So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?" Molly asks when Vivian reads some of these stories aloud."It cer...”
“Suffering, he thought later, could rob a man of his empathy, could turn him selfish, could make him depreciate all other sufferers.”
“People don't want the truth,' he says, waving a hand at the streets around us. 'They want better-quality lies. High definition lies on fifty-inch screens.”
“Human nature being what it was, the only time you could really be sure you werent being lied to was when you were talking to yourself.”
“All men lead their lives behind a wall of misunderstanding they have themselves built and most men die in silence and unnoticed behind the walls. Now and then a man, cut off from his fellows by the...”
“Every day we all make little MISTAKES in life, but that doesn't mean we have to pay for them for the rest of our lives.Sometimes GOOD people make BAD choices, but that doesn't mean we are BAD peopl...”
