Quotes About Humanity

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.

The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.

Deep within every man there lies the dread of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the tremendous household of millions and millions.

Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.

We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.

One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits.

Be guided by feeling alone. We are only simple mortals, subject to error...

As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.

So I am lonely, but not alone, like everybody else.

What is private belongs to me alone. What is personal belongs to all of us through the shared experience of being human.

Clichés remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that others have trod this ground long ago.

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

Talent alone gets you nowhere. You really have to have the grit, and you gotta have a love for people.

Compassion can drive us to do amazing things and give us perspective.

[Raul Castro] is one of the most amazing human beings I've ever met.

We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason.

It's us that's really amazing.

The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul?

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.

I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice.

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

We can shoot rockets into space but we can't cure anger or discontent.

To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we know that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.

And so how was a human to pray? I didn't know, and yet I prayed. I prayed the terrible prayer: "Thy will be done." Having so prayed, I prayed for strength. That seemed reasonable and right enough. As did praying for forgiveness and the grace to forgive. I prayed unreasonably, foolishly, hopelessly, that everybody in Port William might be blessed and happy—the ones I loved and the ones I did not. I prayed my gratitude