403 quotes found
“Masks. - There are women who, however you may search them, prove to have no content but are purely masks. The man who associates with such almost spectral, necessarily unsatisfied beings is to be c...”
“Such is our need to shower blame on some distant entity when it is we who lack the courage to face up to what is there before us.”
“It's embarrassing to be human.”
“Every body has their taste in noises as well as other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.”
“Bah! Magnus scoffed. Humans always blame dwarves. A baby goes missing and it was a dwarf that stole it. A princess runs off with a second son of a king and it was a dwarf who lured her to a deep pr...”
“I guess," says Deagle, finally, "I'll just have a pack of Marlboro Lights. That's what I used to smoke when I was human.”
“Satisfying a savage instinct is incomparably more pleasurable than satisfying a civilized one.”
“Quite half of the human race was in tears.”
“the beast who dreams of man and has so dreamt in running dreams a hundred thousand years and more. Dreams of that malignant lesser god come pale and naked and alien to slaughter all his clan and ki...”
“I saw the patterns of history and thought that a human might be eighty per cent chemicals, eighteen per cent his past, and two per cent feeling, creatures of habit. Which makes psychiatrists really...”
“Don't be so sure," said Gamache. "It's a little humbling to realize the pedestal isn't quite so high after all."Brebeuf chuckled. "Welcome to earth, Armand. It's a little dirty down here.”
“One day, he said, everybodys gonna wake up and realize their parents are human beings, just like them. Sometimes theyre good people, sometimes theyre not.”
“Being human gets so tiresome at times.”
“our struggle to celebrate each other is what's proven most difficult in being human”
“I could take revenge, i could give pain, But i do not know how to be such a cheapSo hurt to one,i love you more than my life to whom always i speak”
“One can be a Jewish, Christian, Buddhist, Hindu or Muslim; it may have, somewhat value. However, if one fails, to be a human, all other qualities, become unimportant and collapse since all the reli...”
“One can only describe the human but can never define it because humans are complex in their nature.”
“Maturity gives the best understanding of our human head and heart. Every decision we take seems less important after the results of the action.”
“In reality the concept of other nation is wrong because there is only one nation: The Human Nation!”
“We are wired to be caring for the other and generous to one another. We shrivel when we are not able to interact. I mean that is part of the reason why solitary confinement is such a horrendous pun...”
