Quotes About Human

...the power of grace can work great things in the human person, greater than we might have dared to hope...(pg.52 in The Examen Prayer).

We sense that 'normal' isn't coming back, that we are being born into a new normal: a new kind of society, a new relationship to the earth, a new experience of being human.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it.

The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.

Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.

I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself.

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

The human condition ... is defined by the aspiration to always supersede oneself, which in turn requires nonconformity.

Human reason can excuse any evil.

Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.

The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place.

The artist is a god, but he is also an idiot. That is the human way.

There will always be those who want to make paintings of the human form with all its parts all where they should be, in spite of progress.

It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the weaknesses which are found in the strongest minds.

Don't let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.

To postpone unpleasantness is human; to forget it is divine.

When I touch a human hand, I touch heaven.

The things that make us human often make us ill.

Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race.

But then again...perhaps the whole human race is cursed, and I'm simply in the lower echelon and therefore lose everything first.

Let every human heart be open at spark of the light.

That's the trouble with good writers. Only the bad ones make you want to do the human thing and look away.

The ones who take human circumstances too personally will eventually be left outside mercy