Quotes About Humanity

En este perro mundo —pensó—, cuando te haces viejo y te duele hasta el sentido común, un mendrugo de amabilidad, o de lástima, es un manjar de dioses.»

Dios se compadece primero de los hijos de puta. Hasta en eso la vida era una grandísima zorra.

Die Liebe ist der einzige Stein, der immer über denselben Menschen stoplert.

Omul e un animal moral abandonat într-un univers amoral È™i condamnat la o existen?? finit? si f?r? alt? semnificaÈ›ie decât perpetuarea ciclului natural al speciei. E imposibil de supravieÈ›uit într-o stare prelungit? de realitate, cel puÈ›in pentru o fiin?? omeneasc?. Ne petrecem o bun? parte a vieÈ›ilor noastre visând, mai ales când suntem treji.

man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip.

this chorus of simians we call humanity.

All holy books are, above all, great stories whose plots deal with the basic aspects of human nature, setting them within a particular moral context and a particular framework of supernatural dogma. -Andreas Corelli

More or less everyone has lost someone, whatever side they belong to.

However many sorrows you drag along with you, you'll only have walked a few steps before bumping into someone who will remind you that there's always another person with a far worse set of cards than yours in the game of life.

Men? Who knows. Nature is a mother, though a cruel one, and she leaves them silly at birth. But some of them aren't that bad.

Por qué son tan bobos a veces? —preguntó Bea. —¿Los hombres? Quién sabe. A lo mejor es porque la naturaleza es madre, aunque cruel, y los atonta de nacimiento. Pero algunos no están tan mal. —Eso

We're a disgraceful lot.

But I couldn't absorb the idea that death could actually walk by my side, with a human face and a heart that was poisoned with hatred, that death could be dressed in a uniform or a raincoat, queue up at a cinema, laugh in bars, or take his children out for a walk to Ciudadela Park in the morning...

because of the eternal human stupidity of pursuing those who hurt us the most.

It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for a human being. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

En contra de lo que usted cree a pies juntillas, el universo no gira en torno a las apetencias de su entrepierna. Otros factores influyen en el devenir de la humanidad.

Eu o observam cu coada ochiului È™i îmi d?deam seama c?, numai când m? uitam la ea, începea s?-mi vin? mai puÈ›in greu s? cred c?, poate, înc? mai r?m?sese ceva bun È™i decent în lumea asta mizerabil? È™i, cu ceva noroc, în mine însumi.

Lo que hace falta en el mundo es más gente mala de verdad y menos cazurros limítrofes.

People die, especially those who would do better to stay alive. Perhaps it's because God needs to make room for the huge amount of jerks with which he enjoys peppering the world.

Es curioso cómo juzgamos a los demás y no nos damos cuenta de lo miserable de nuestro desdén hasta que nos faltan, hasta que nos los quitan.

Martin, fables are possibly one of the most interesting literary forms ever invented. Do you know what they teach us? Moral lessons? No. They teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.

Every earthly revelation has a spiritual significance. I believe that if we humans were more spiritual, we wouldn't need visions. These are given whenever someone hasn't quite grasped an invisible spiritual lesson and needs a visual to go with it. We must learn to pull off this rough husk and feed on its sweet kernel.

Ah, but is it not the mind that is the real grace of Homo sapiens? All the things to think about! All the things to read and appreciate! All the arts! All the things of the spirit!

Maybe it's animalness that will make the world right again: the wisdom of elephants, the enthusiasm of canines, the grace of snakes, the mildness of anteaters. Perhaps being human needs some diluting. At any rate, how nice to be well dressed and among friends and in a state where poems pop out by themselves.