149 quotes found
“Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.”
“we all need someone to talk to, be with and love”
“Humans, in the day that has been the Earth, have been here for less than a minute. Were a late-night piss in the toilet, thats all we are.”
“Living things aren't finished, you see. Everything they have ever been in contact with, each thought they have had, each person they have known - these things are still at work in them; nothing's f...”
“They put money into attack, by calling it defence.”
“Nature creates curved lines while humans create straight lines.”
“Black holes are the last vestige of civilizations obsessed with tinkering.”
“Anna envied Joans deep connection with the human race. She was a member of the club. Anna was half convinced shed been begotten by a passing alien life-form on a human woman. It was as good an expl...”
“Humans are the unrivaled plague the nature has even seen.”
“Look out there. Can you feel them? Incredible to think - other human beings out there. You strain your eyes the whole day long, see nothing, hear nothing, still can't believe it somehow - but know ...”
“Humans were always surprising me.”
“Through the window, I saw the beautiful world outside: the sky, the sun, the cacti, the rocks, and the dirt. How I longed to return to it! I licked at the air, trying to smell the desert's deliciou...”
“I was familiar with humans at this point only from afar, but even from there, I found them a pitiable species: scaleless, fangless, clawless, nearly furless, wingless, venomless, witless. I honestl...”
“They were so ignorant, so naive, so resigned to their lot. They refused to believe anything that didn't fit in with what they were used to believing.”
“In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless.”
“You humans live in shallow waters”
“When we perceive aliens as a joke to be laughed at,they feel so pity for us on the success of their plans.”
“Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism, health foods, zen, surfing, ballet, hypnotism, group encounters, orgies, biking, herbs, Catholicism, weight-l...”
“This was the species whose main excuse for not doing something was 'if only I had more time'. Perfectly valid until you realised they did have more time. Not eternity, granted, but they had tomorro...”
“Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.”
