Quotes About Humanity

Humanity's moral conscience progresses, slowly yet surely...

La conscience morale de l'humanité progresse, lentement mais sûrement...

Reason and Justice tell me that there is more love of man in electricity and steam, than in chastity and refusal to eat meat.

There will be time to diet when people stopped killing one another.

I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.

Art goes into the world unarmed, vulnerable to every quirk of fate, and it must survive only by its power to move men not to destroy it.

If the military knew about vampires, and it knew about a few of the other less conventional brands of humanity, too, then what was the big plot? They obviously weren't trying to recruit us, which was sort of a shame. I imagined a full unit of vampire soldiers and I got a little giddy, and distracted. Bad idea, maybe. But it'd be epic, wouldn't it?

What if you allowed your God to exist in he simple words of compassion others offer you? ... What if the greatest beauty of the day is the shaft of sunlight through our window? What if the worst thing happened and you rose anyway? What if you trusted in the human scale? What if you listened harder to the story of the man on the cross who found a way to endure his suffering more than to the one about the impossible magic of the Messiah? Would you see the miracle in that?

the ultimate dwindling resource in the human arrangement isn't cheap oil or potable water or even common sense, but mercy.

She was. She was imperfect. She made mistakes. But she was her best self more often than it's reasonable for any human to be.

The particularity of our problems can be made bearable only through the recognition of our universal humanity. We suffer uniquely, but we survive the same way.

His life is like your life and my life and all the lives of all the people who are reading these words right now. It's a roiling stew of fear and need and desire and love and the hunger to be loved. And mostly, it's the latter.

Our minds are small, but our hearts are big.

You did things you didn't hope to do. You have not always been your best self. This means that you're like the rest of us.

compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got.

There's nothing you can tell Sugar that doesn't strike her as beautiful and human. Which is why men and women write to her about intimacies they can't share with anyone else, unspeakable urges, insoluble grief. She understands that attention is the first and final act of love, and that the ultimate dwindling resource in the human arrangement isn't cheap oil or potable water or even common sense, but mercy.

But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got.

I've long believed literature's greatest superpower is how it makes us feel less alone. Across generations, cultures, classes, races, genders, and every other divide, stories and sentences can make us think, Oh yes, me too. That is precisely how it feels to love and lose and triumph and try again.

She was a real human being laying herself bare, fearlessly, that we might come to understand the nature of our own predicaments.

The only thing I ever hope to do as a writer is to make people feel less alone, to make them feel more human, to make them feel what I have felt so many times as a reader: stories have the power to save us by illuminating the most profoundly beautiful and terrible things about our existence.

We act as if we don't know that awful things happen to all sorts of people every second of every day and the only thing that's changed about the world or the existence or nonexistence of God or the color of the sky is that the awful thing is happening to us.

The mission of literature is to tell us who we are."—Cheryl Strayed @CherylStrayed

our minds are small, but our hearts are big. Just about every one of us has fucked up at some point or another

Our minds are small, but our hearts are big. Just about every one of us has fucked up at one point or another. You're in a pickle. You did things you didn't hope to do. You have not always been your