Quotes About Humanity

Whether we liked it or not we were involuntary witnesses to every man's behaviour, to the way he walked, the way he ate, the way he slept, the way he washed, the way he put on his clothes. No one could hide anything from anybody.

I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.

I long ago gave up defending humanity. It's beyond me on most days to defend myself.

Casting my own eye down Fifth Avenue as my belly swelled, I would register with incredulity: Every one of these people came from a woman's cunt.

Thus even tragedy can be accompanied by a trace of relief. The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity.

No tenemos mucho en común, pero, en general, disfruto con su compañía, la mera yuxtaposición de cuerpos calientes proporciona el más profundo de los consuelos animales.

The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity.

The existence of other people is essentially awkward.

We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.

Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

The true speech of man is idiomatic, if not of the earth and sky, then at least of the saloon and the bleachers.

As I say the words, I realize how true they are. And maybe that's the trick to getting through it, through life: realizing that everybody, including ourselves, is lugging around some kind of screwed-up baggage. Maybe we are put here to help each other carry the loads.

I do not understand it, this fighting and killing/ and urge to conquer." His gaze turned downward then. I touched his arm, and he glanced at me, all the sorrow on this earth filling his eyes then. "I will never understand it.

humanity is a messy business, where knowing what is right doesn't necessarily preclude you from doing what is wrong.

Wer ein Menschenleben rettet, handelt, als würde er die ganze Welt retten.

All men are weak," Phin said. "That's the whole bloody trouble with the world. Too weak to love properly. Too weak to be wrong.

That's the whole bloody trouble with the world. Too weak to love properly. Too weak to be wrong.

That's the whole bloody trouble with the world. Too weak to love properly. Too weak to be wrong.

But I realised it wasn't a ghost, it was his SPIRIT and then I realised that a spirit is just another word for a memory, isn't it? The stronger the memory the stronger the spirit. Because as much as I'd love to believe that the spirit lives on as a thing separate to humanity, I know that's not true. It's in our minds, in our hearts, that a person's spirit lives on.

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She knew how to love them, but never to care for them. And if she'd had a shred of normal, decent—God, I don't know—humanity, she would not have left me with all this. All her disgusting filth and shit and mess! It's all just so, so, lurid. My whole revolting family. Just one disgusting lurid thing after another." She brought herself to a sudden halt. Too much. Way too much.

Too weak to love properly. Too weak to be wrong.

All men are weak," said Phin. "That's the whole bloody trouble with the world. Too weak to love properly. Too weak to be wrong.