Quotes About Humanity

Visto che siamo al mondo, stiamo tutti morendo.

What a world, Sadie thought. People once made glass sculptures of decay, and they put these sculptures in museums. How strange and beautiful human beings are. And how fragile.

his eyes reminded Sam of his own. They had the patina of a person who had felt pain and expected to feel it again.

Kiedy? przekonasz si?, ?e ludzie z regu?y nie s? ani ca?kiem dobrzy, ani ?li. Mo?e w nich tkwi? odrobina dobra i ca?a masa z?a albo mog? by? z gruntu dobrzy z niewielk? domieszk? z?a

This novel has humor, romance, a touch of suspense, but most of all love—love of books and bookish people and, really, all of humanity in its imperfect glory." —EOWYN IVEY, author of The Snow Child

Leemos para saber que no estamos solos. Leemos porque estamos solos. Leemos y no estamos solos. No estamos solos.

Pada akhirnya, kita adalah kumpulan karya.

an irresistible of why we read and why we love. We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works.

We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works.

On, there are so many lives. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead of one by one by one. We could select the best pieces of each, stringing them together like a strand of pearls. But that's not how it works. A human life is a beautiful mess.

People, you'll find, aren't usually all good or bad. Sometimes they're just a little bit good and a whole lot bad. And sometimes they're mostly good with a dash of bad. And most of us, well, we fall in the middle somewhere.

We love what we love in spite of ourselves, toward something larger and more generous than the velvet prison of self.

I wonder why peopke are so afraid of love. Of different kinds of love. I just don't get it. Why aren't we afraid of racism" Of war? But love? It just doesn't make sense.

we can't hide from it, we are all touched by the madness of it.

I won't say we human beings still don't have much to learn. Sometimes we love and hate without thought. We expect too much from one another, and often we are wrong.

A man must have his faults.

That's when I realized that Heaven doesn't exist in another place, and neither does Hell. It's all here on Earth. We live them both, right here with one another. It's just that sometimes we have to go through Hell to get to Heaven.

To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or her to be on earth at this moment

We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.

Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

he was as if a "reborn" human being, a "fundamentalist" as a human being.

Te bastará con familiarizarte con la naturaleza y ella se acercará a ti. El hombre, si es inteligente, por supuesto, es capaz de crearlo todo, desde las calumnias hasta los bebés probeta, pero al mismo tiempo extermina a diario dos o tres especies en el mundo. Este es el gran autoengaño de los hombres.

The story can also serve as a philosophy for getting on in society – to teach the morally superior man that each day he should investigate his own personal conduct, or that human life is suffering, or that suffering in life derives from the self. Or the story could be developed into numerous intricate and complex theories. It all depends on how the storyteller tells it.