149 quotes found
“Up here on the Ice each of us is singular, isolate, I as cut off from those like me, from my society, and its rules, as he from his.”
“Humans dont connect their actions with what befalls them. Dont they perceive time as linear?"They do, said Aitassi. They just dont see why they should do anything individually to change their futur...”
“Humans make mistakes. They get angry, they do stupid things they're not proud of, and they hurt the people they love the most.”
“And this is precisely where the tension lies: Panthera tigris and Homo sapiens are actually very much alike, and we are drawn to many of the same things, if for slightly different reasons. Both of ...”
“It's something you don't see until it's gone-the shapes and things have and the ways in which the people around you mould the shapes.”
“Irrationality is the exclusive preserve of humans as among all creatures only we have the power to rationalise, that being the art of packaging patently irrational as apparently rational.”
“People who are indifferent about the happenings around them are human biomasses.”
“Humans wasted so much time by being redundant.”
“Human bodies are such garbage bags.”
“If we were entirely sane, if madness did not have a serious grip on one side of us, other people's tragedies would hold a great deal less interest for us.”
“Why do you think we are the only animal that kisses? She was near again. Because the area in front of our faces is our most intimate zone. She drew a breath. This is why humans are the only romanti...”
“You proudly said. We are Humans! In reality, we are a bunch of sarcastic, selfish and stupid well-intentioned creatures without any remorse for anything. So, think again about your pride and become...”
“The best way to think of the ageing process in relation to a human face is to imagine a map of an area of innocent land which slowly becomes a city with many long and winding routes.”
“The truth is, the hypocrisy of humans is everywhere”
“What a sad thing men are. Can't do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can't build something up without tearing it down.”
“The next day I had a hangover.I realised that if getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.”
“Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation (or, more probably, mutations) that set us apartthe mutations that make us the sort of creature that could wipe out its nearest relative, then dig up ...”
“Why do Twolegs do anything? If we knew that, our lives would be a lot easier.”
“Twolegs are mad. Even the smallest kit knows that.”
“Most people are sheep and sheep don't eat meat”
