Quotes About Human nature

He was like anybody else, Red said. Insufferable and likeable. Bad and good.

The beast in man had lifted its mask and the time of euphemistic niceties and rationalizations was over.

Caring passionately about something isn't against nature, and it isn't against human nature. It's what we're here to do.

Maybe human beings are programmed … to help one another, even to fall in love. But just because it's human nature doesn't make it bad, Tally. Besides, we had a whole city of pretties to choose from, and we chose each other.

I think we all have light and dark inside us.

Teaching Fire a Lesson Fire is hot. That's what it does. If you get burned by fire, you can be annoyed at yourself, but being angry at fire doesn't do you much good. And trying to teach the fire a lesson so it won't be hot next time is certainly not time well spent. Our inclination is to give fire a pass, because it's not human. But human beings are similar, in that they're not going to change any time soon either.

It's human nature to be weird, but also human to be lonely. This conflict between fitting in and standing out is at the core of who we are.

It is a relief to discover that although there might be axe murderers and kidnappers in the world, most people seem a lot like us: sometimes afraid and sometimes brave, sometimes cruel and sometimes kind.

Policemen and criminals were not so very much different.  So said Grand-père Filepe.  Certainly, they tended to know the same people, to drink in the same places, to roam the same streets at very nearly the same hours.

it's human nature to want to seize control when the people we love are suffering. But trying to impose our personal agenda on someone else's experience is the shadow side of love, while real love recognizes that life unfolds at its own pace.

Every person has the potential to be unpleasant and harmful, just as every person has the potential to be pleasant and helpful.

Why do the wicked prosper?" In essence, there are many answers, but they all boil down to one common denominator: The wicked prosper because God will not control human nature. He will only invite us into his affections.

Regrets were like assholes; everyone had one. Hammer

Why can't we resist the urge to second-guess and evaluate each other?...Sometimes I wonder if the final judgment will be a breeze compared with what we've put each other through here on earth. p 225

People are basically irritating. Myself included.

All of us have darkness inside us, and at times it possesses and seduces us in ways we never thought possible.

But you're human, aren't you? (Kat) I'm human, except when I first wake up in the morning. Even I don't want to be around myself then. (Kish)

There was nothing humane about humanity. At the end of the day, they were all animals with only survival instincts.

I know I don't want to ask this, but the compulsion's more than I can bear. What's kind of human? Ash She's a ghost. Nick What kind of idiot dates a ghost? Ash

Humans are capable of so much creativity and goodness and at the same time they are destructive and cruel. (Leta)

My people never dreamed of a world like this. Of having so much without backbreaking, debilitating work. And yet for all the physical improvements, people are still people. They're killing each other to get more to prove a point only the killer understands. Still brutalizing and torturing each other over things that in another hundred years won't even matter.

Just in my experience, all people do is take. None of them give a damn about helping someone else. (Aiden) And sometimes people can surprise you. (Leta) Yeah. You're right. I'm constantly amazed by the unprovoked treachery they're capable of. (Aiden)

We hate and we love for reasons that are known only to us.

Familiarity breeds contempt. By bringing them in close, they realize that you're just as human as they are. That's when the madness sets in. They can't understand why you have more than they do when you're just a regular human being the same as them. Then they hate you for it. (Leta)