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Quotes About Humanity

All great humorists are sad... I cannot help seeing beyond the tinsel of humour, and recognising the pitiful basis of jest - the world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
~ William Wordsworth
The still, sad music of humanity.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
Most people like the sad songs. Some of the oldest songs known to man are sad. Listening to a voice singing something sad is a really great way to help you to feel sad when you need to.
~ Patty Griffin
We try to... we are, I suppose to a certain extent all affected and erm, that is both funny and sad I think.
~ Tony Hancock
Living, it can be sad too.
~ Jean-Luc Godard
Life possesses an amazing array of profoundly sad faces.
~ Aberjhani
We burn so hard, but we shed so little light; it makes us crazy and sad.
~ Clive Barker
Man is a sad mammal that combs its hair.
~ Cees Nooteboom
O suffering, sad humanity! O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, yet afraid to die, Patient, though sorely tried!
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Yes. But sad's alright. Sad's just apart of everything
~ David Almond
That's sad too, people cannot do anything that dreadful they cannot do anything very dreadful at all they cannot even remember tomorrow what seemed dreadful today
~ William Faulkner
Biologically we're all the same. We all get sad, we all get happy, and we all die. Anyone who pretends that that's not the case is either a sociopath or utterly delusional.
~ Moby
Mr. Spock : 'I began to study human behavior from an alien perspective, thinking, humans are interesting, sad, foolish, but worthy of study.
~ Leonard Nimoy
people are not good to each other. perhaps if they were our deaths would not be so sad.
~ Charles Bukowski
Just watching Israel bombarding Palestine and Palestine sending one or two little rockets over to Israel - it's just too sad for words.
~ Richard Branson
It's a sad comment on humans that none of them are tolerable to one who can read their minds
~ Charlaine Harris
I have received hostile voice mail messages and e-mails. They are often anonymous, I'm sad to say, as anonymous messages are delivered only by very low forms of human life, in my opinion.
~ Ben Brantley
Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.
~ William Wordsworth
It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep.
~ Corazon Aquino
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if science grounded in observation.
~ Auguste Comte
To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
~ Baruch Spinoza