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Quotes About Humanity

And if we fail? (Delphine) It'll suck to be human. (Madoc)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Disease. Filth. Waste. Crime. Brutality. What's there to like? (Solin) There's brutality on Olympus. (Arik) True. But I hate humanity as much as I hate the gods. Both groups are selfish bastards bent on destroying everything around them. They were given a perfect world and rather than enjoy it, they'd rather destroy it and each other. Excuse me if I don't look at them with love in my eyes but rather scorn in my heart. (Solin)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I'm no longer human and there is no past.' (Acheron's litany)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
What a way to pay a man back for helping you. Gah, I suck as a human being.' (Shahara)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Just remember, sometimes people will put you ahead of themselves. It does happen. (Leta) Yeah, the whole world is just rainbows and puppies. Boy Scouts really do help old ladies cross the street without mugging them and no one ever ignores a trauma victim's screams. (Aiden)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Val, I'm on Bourbon—" "I will not venture down that street of crass iniquities and plebeian horror, Acheron. It is the cesspit of humanity. Don"t even ask it." Ash rolled his eyes at the Roman"s arrogant tone. "I need you in the swamp." Silence answered him. We have a situation. "Where do you need me?
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Don't lie! You're human! - Separated from my body. - Yes, you're about to be.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Out of curiosity, why would you have tried to destroy the world?" "Ever attempted to hunt down a parking space at Christmas? Buy a shirt in a store the day after Thanksgiving? Those two things alone will make you doubt the humanity of humans, and question if survival of the species is in anyone's best interest. What are we fighting for, anyway? Better department store sales?
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Astrid or Aphrodite, she is my Circe. only instead of turning a man into an animal, she has made the animal human --Zarek
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
He had never taken a woman like Bride. One who wasn't biting and clawing at him as she demanded he please her. Something inside him relished the rarity of this. The gentleness. In a life where violence and territory and blood wars reigned, it was nice to have a reprieve. A tender lover's touch. The human side of him craved this. It craved her. - Vane
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
No. I'm quite certain I'm human. Most days anyway. Mornings not always withstanding. Instead of a purse, I'm much more of a bear in the early hours of the day.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Those who judge only by the heart are far too rare in this world.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Remember Arikos the key to humanity is simple. Live your life with purpose. They humans need goals to strive for. All of Trieg's have been taken from him by his enemies so we need to replace them with new ones that matter to him. Without goals humanity is lost and a single man can't function. Acheron had been wrong about one thing. without goals everyone was lost. Even the gods.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
As Plato said, "Be kind to everyone you meet, for we are all fighting a fierce battle.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
When one was an immortal, the freshness of life had a way of dying even more quickly than one's body had. As the centruies blended together, it was easy to forget the human side of oneself. To remember why humanity needed saving. It was hard to remember how to laugh. Then again, laguther and Valerius were virtual strangers. Until Tabitha, he'd never really shared a laugh with anyone.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
For every act of cruelty mankind is capable of, they're just as capable of kindness.(Leta)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Am I the only human on board this ship?" To her deepest chagrin, he hesitated. And when he finally answered, it wasn't what she wanted to hear and gave her no comfort whatsoever. "Define the word 'human.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
No matter what walk of life you're from, you can appreciate the music - songs [can] resonate in your soul and your heart.
~ Common
Every war, when viewed from the undistorted perspective of life's sanctity, is a "civil war" waged by humanity against itself.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
I make small mistakes every day. But major mistakes? It doesn't seem so. I've examined my service to the Tibetan people and to humanity, and I've done as much as I can in my life.
~ Dalai Lama
Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective.
~ Dan Chaon
You live your life and it ends quite quickly and all you can do with it is pass it on decently to someone else. Whether directly or indirectly, behave decently to other people.
~ Danny Boyle
You learn a lot about a person when she saves your life, - Mecho
~ David Baldacci
The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration.
~ David O. McKay