Quotes About Reflection

Humanity is the washerwoman of society that wrings out its dirty laundry in tears.

The struggle we're dealing with these days, which, I think, is part of what the 60s represented, is how do we define our humanity?

The dinosaurs aren't remembered for much more than their bones. When humanity's gone, what do we give to this little planet that we're on, and what could we do collectively, removing the pride?

I say to myself: "Who are you to measure infinite power?

I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of the cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it.

Thinking is the most overrated human activity.

Usually monsters are some aspect of human behavior or humanity at large.

Our problem is that when you lose the touchstone, which is humanity, then when you have something like humans dying, it needs to feel profound.

I'm a human who is aware of the history of humanity and the ways in which the movies touch on those things.

As far as humanity is concerned the origin of stupidity is itself.

... humanity deserved to die horribly, since it had behaved so cruelly and wastefully on a planet so sweet.

Memory is the crux of our humanity. Without memory we have no identities. That is really why I am committing an autobiography.

We can't separate our humanity from our poetry.

I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, 'Well, I've had it with humanity.' But I was wrong.

The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity.

Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside themselves.

At the core of everything that is hurtful to humanity is a lack of consciousness.

History is the self-consciousness of humanity.

I've been practising Buddhism for forty years, and that's what has led me to this path of discovering my own humanity and recognizing the humanity in others.

I think art, at best, holds up a mirror to humanity.

People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Did anyone else have these moments of amazement over the existence of humanity, when they are in awe of how they are here, and alive, even if it's only for a short while?

4.39 HUMANITY & DIVINITYWhen you lose reasoning you forget humanity, When you forget laughter you lose Divinity.[222] – 4

The death of a dog may not by some be regarded as a tragedy, but some dogs are more worthy than some men, and can be more justly mourned.