Quotes About Humanity

I know all human beings will be successful. How do I know? They all die.

I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than the things that divide us.

My only job is to write in such a way that the reader gets a new handle on humanity.

When all of a sudden you're successful and sought after overnight, you are instantly opened to a lot of sides of humanity that the average person is never going to see. And those can often be pretty disheartening, and it can make somebody pretty lonely.

The sad thing is that apparently if you want to become the next Premier or the leader, suddenly you've got to shut down your human side.

Even ordinary people aren't ordinary, not really. They're filled up with thoughts and feelings that you might never know are there until they suddenly materialise.

I'm a political poet - let us say a 'human' poet, a poet that's concerned with the plight of people who suffer. If words can be of assistance, then that's what I'm going to use.

We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

I like when characters suffer in stories because that's real life and that's what we all go through.

Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.

Great artists suffer for the people.

I have two boys, so I don't want any more child to suffer like me.

Myself, I suffer from loneliness. And I think we all feel alone. I'm looking for stories that help people deal with loneliness and help them if they are monsters: they don't have to undertake monstrous actions. And maybe they're not monsters.

There's no way to get around the fact that Jesus is the only way to Heaven, and He is so good that He exchanged His place in Heaven to come suffer on a cross for humanity and rose to set us free from eternal life in Hell.

We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.

The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.

The Jews were gassed. Armenians were killed in every conceivable way... So the Holocaust doesn't interest me, see? They've had a lot of publicity, but they didn't suffer as much.

Social niceties are not in order for men who would turn away refugees fleeing for their lives based on their faith to have them suffer in camps.

I think we all suffer the same pain, all feel the same happiness, and we all have the same emotions within us.

I am not Donald Trump. I cannot see my people suffer in front of my eyes.

I never want to see anyone suffer for any reason.

Our present will become the past of other men and women. We depend on them to remember it with the complexity with which it was suffered. As others, once, depended on us.

I suffered too much and I want to stop the suffering of other people.