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Quotes About Humanity

Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.
~ Alice Sebold
Life is just a plain bloody mess, that's all. And people are fools.
~ Athol Fugard
Pioneering spirit should continue, not to conquer the planet or space ... but rather to improve the quality of life.
~ Bertrand Piccard
Every way all that anyone could be.… If anybody.
~ Jennifer Niven
People can be great, but they can also be lousy. I am often lousy.
~ Jennifer Niven
You are not alone." Before I can tell him, Actually I am, which is part of the problem; we are all alone, trapped in these bodies and our own minds, and whatever company we have in this life is only fleeting and superficial
~ Jennifer Niven
No estás solo. ? Y antes que pueda decirle ‹‹De hecho lo estoy, lo cual no forma parte del problema. Todo estamos solos, atrapados en el interior del cuerpo y de la mente, y sea cual sea la compañía que podamos tener en esta vida, no es más que pasajera y superficial››
~ Jennifer Niven
You are not alone." Before I can tell him, Actually I am, which is part of the problem; we are all alone, trapped in these bodies and our own minds, and whatever company we have in this life is only fleeting and superficial.
~ Jennifer Niven
Actually I am, which is part of the problem; we are all alone, trapped in these bodies and our own minds, and whatever company we have in this life is only fleeting and superficial
~ Jennifer Niven
Atticus, he was real nice…." "Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them." —To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
~ Jennifer Niven
It's okay to be a person. We're all afraid. We all get hurt. It's okay to hurt. You'd be so much more likable if you just acted human.
~ Jennifer Niven
I don't want a Nazi to notice me and think, Jew. Because then I might die, too.
~ Jennifer Roy
As Papa pulls me along, I see brown shoes, brown pants legs, brown dresses, brown road. I look up at the brown buildings and the cloud of brown dust and smoke that hangs in the sky. Bright colors don't exist in the ghetto, except for the yellow stars and puddles of red blood that we carefully step around.
~ Jennifer Roy
Some'll rob you blind, some'll kick you when you're down, but you spread some good feeling and some warmth about, and people like that. Aye.
~ Jenny Colgan
I never understand," he said, shaking his head, "why anyone would go through the trouble of making up new people in this world when there's already billions of the buggers I don't give a shit about.
~ Jenny Colgan
Ça ne sert à rien de devenir amère parce qu'il y a des connards sur terre. S'il n'y avait pas de connards, tu ne saurais pas repérer les gens bien.
~ Jenny Colgan
it is not unreasonable to think that when you touch a baby's face you are touching the face of God. Have you ever seen a baby in an old people's home? They are worshipped. They become divine.
~ Jenny Colgan
I never understand," he said, shaking his head, "why anyone would go to the trouble of making up new people in this world when there's already billions of the buggers I don't give a shit about.
~ Jenny Colgan
Have the people living here under untroubled circumstances and at so great a distance from the wars of others been afflicted with a poverty of experience, a sort of emotional anemia? Must living in peace - so fervently wished for throughout human history and yet enjoyed in only a few parts of the world - inevitably result in refusing to share it with those seeking refuge, defending it instead so aggressively that it almost looks like war?
~ Jenny Erpenbeck
People are gonna disappoint you sometimes. We're flawed creatures. Not one of us is perfect, not even you, and you've gotta let people mess up and then you've gotta forgive them. That's just life.
~ Jenny Han
It took me a long time to figure it out. That I was the one who had put my dad on that pedestal. I did that, not him. And then I despised him for not being perfect. For being human.
~ Jenny Han
Tardé mucho tiempo en comprenderlo. Fui yo el que puso a mi padre en ese pedestal. Lo hice yo, no él. Y luego lo desprecié por no ser perfecto. Por ser humano.
~ Jenny Han
Of course you'll look at other girls. You have eyes, don't you? I swear, that's just as silly as when people say they don't see color. Everyone sees everyone. You can't help but see.
~ Jenny Han
FEW CAN IGNORE A BABY'S CRIES, EVEN IF THE RESPONSE IS IRRITATION. THIS IS ONE OF THE BUILT IN SAFEGUARDS THAT IS SUPPOSED TO GUARANTEE THE SURVIVAL OF THE RACE.
~ Jenny Holzer