Quotes About Humanity

How mingled and imperfect are all our sublunary joys!

This in no life for man or woman, insults and hatred and history.

Justice it means but it's everybody eating everyone else. That's what life is after all.

When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once...

Therefore, everyman, look to that last end that is thy death and the dust that gripeth on every man that is born of woman for as he came naked forth from his mother's womb so naked shall he wend him at the last for to go as he came.

We are foolish, comic, motionless, corrupted, yet we are worthy of sympathy too.

No, sir. Jesus wept: and no wonder, by Christ!

Elmac?k kemikleri yüzüne sert bir ifade veriyordu ama koyu renk kaÅŸlar?n?n alt?ndan dünyaya bakarken baÅŸkalar?ndan bir ba???lama bekleyip çoÄŸu kez hayal k?r?kl???na uÄŸram?? bir insan izlenimi veren gözlerinde sertlik yoktu.

First we feel. Then we fall. — James Joyce, Finnegans Wake .( Faber and Faber November 4, 2002) Originally published May 4th 1939.

before all this has time to end the golden age must return with its vengeance. Man will become dirigible...

O tribes! O gentes!)

Therefore, everyman, look to that last end that is thy death and the dust [369] that gripeth on every man that is born of woman for as he came naked forth from his mother's womb so naked shall he wend him at the last for to go as he came.

If a cavalcade of organized killing has nothing to teach us, I don't know what does.

Non solo un pittore della domenica, ma un essere umano della domenica.

The tragedy of my species xxx is that it does not live in its own time. Homo sapiens is locked on history's rearview mirror, never the road ahead, bent on catching some presumed lost paradise xxx xxx The human race is destroying itself with nostalgia...

Folk take a battering but, they do; they get born and they get brought up and they get fuckt. That's the story; the cot to the fucking funeral pyre.

The wind smelled of humus, lichen, the musky odor of pecan husks broken under the shoe, a sunshower on the fields across the bayou. But any poetry that might have been contained in that moment was lost when I stared into Honoria's face, convinced that human insanity was as close to our fingertips as the act of rubbing fog off a window pane.

If I've learned anything at all from my years, it's the simple lesson that human beings are always more complicated, brave, long-suffering, and, ultimately, heroic than we ever guessed, and that none of us completely understands another, no matter how intimate we are with them.

James Lee Burke

The lack of expression in Detective Benbow was the kind you see in people who have witnessed events that forever change their view of the world. They never talk about it or struggle with it. Instead, they accept the fact that human beings are capable of deeds Satan couldn't think up.

James Lee Burke

James Lee Burke

How did a man know when it was his time? The answer is simple. There comes a moment when you no longer resist the inevitable and you accept the fact that billions have preceded you and that your death is not more important than theirs.

James Lee Burke