Human Quotes

Such is our need to shower blame on some distant entity when it is we who lack the courage to face up to what is there before us.

~ José Saramago

I like pulling on a baggy bee suit, forgetting myself and getting as close to the bees' lives as they will let me, remembering in the process that there is more to life than the merely human.

~ Sue Hubbell

Some one dear to one can be loved with human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

~ Leo Tolstoy

It's embarrassing to be human.

~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

I once had been in the middle of a mass chaos and terrible riots.There, I witnessed how men were truly such as beasts unleashed.

~ Toba Beta

The human body is not a thing or a substance, given, but a continuous creation.

~ Norman O. Brown

Every body has their taste in noises as well as other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.

~ Jane Austen

Eden is a factory and human was a reject.We are being recalled in order to be fixed.

~ Toba Beta

Water: 35 liters, Carbon: 20 kg, Ammonia: 4 liters, Lime:1.5 kg, Phosphrus: 800 g, salt: 250g, saltpeter:100g, Sulfer: 80g, Fluorine: 7.5 g, iron: 5.6 g, Silicon: 3g, and 15 other elements in small quantities.... thats the total chemical makeup of the average adult body. Modern science knows all of this, but there has never been a single example of succesful human trasmutation. It's like there's some missing ingredient..... Scientists have been trying to find it for hundreds of years, pouring tons of money into research, and to this day they don't have a theory. For that matter, the elements found in a human being is all junk that you can buy in any market with a child's allowence. Humans are pretty cheaply made.

~ Hiromu Arakawa

Because I'm moved in writing to be irrepressible. Writing to you seems like some holy cause, cause there's not enough female irrepressibility written down. I've fused my silence and repression with the entire female gender's silence and repression. I think the sheer fact of women talking, being, paradoxical, inexplicable, flip, self-destructive but above all else public is the most revolutionary thing in the world.

~ Chris Kraus

Bah!” Magnus scoffed. “Humans always blame dwarves. A baby goes missing and it was a dwarf that stole it. A princess runs off with a second son of a king and it was a dwarf who lured her to a deep prison. And when they find her with the prince—lo, she was rescued!“A king is stabbed in the back in his own chapel, and a princess’s toweris turned into a death trap,” Royce called back to them. “Friends arebetrayed and trapped in a prison—yes, I can see your surprise. Where do they get such ideas?”“Damn his elven ears,” Magnus said.

~ Michael J. Sullivan

It is easy to do good, but it takes a lifetime to become human!

~ Aainaa-Ridtz

Guilt and misery shrink, by a natural instinct, from public notice: they court privacy and solitude: and even in their choice of a grave will sometimes sequester themselves from the general population of the churchyard, as if declining to claim fellowship with the great family of man; thus, in a symbolic language universally understood, seeking (in the affecting language of Mr. Wordsworth)’ Humbly to expressA penitential loneliness.

~ Thomas De Quincey

Satisfying a savage instinct is incomparably more pleasurable than satisfying a civilized one.

~ Jed Rubenfeld

Quite half of the human race was in tears.

~ Marcel Proust

I once got lost in a dark woods with no supplies.Struggling to deal with nature, beasts and storms,that was time when I lost my arrogance as human.

~ Toba Beta

the beast who dreams of man and has so dreamt in running dreams a hundred thousand years and more. Dreams of that malignant lesser god come pale and naked and alien to slaughter all his clan and kin and rout them from their house. A god insatiable whom no ceding could appease nor any measure of blood.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

The real funny thing is, whether the demons exist or not at all in your life, it's nothing to do whether you believe or not to one, none nor both of them.

~ Toba Beta

I do understand why a desperate engineer still use a hammerto solve a hard problem. I think, that made him more humane.

~ Toba Beta

Humans should be grateful if they haven't been in contact withaliens, while humans are still making bloodshed with each other.

~ Toba Beta

God created many races wilier than men.But it doesn't mean angels higher than us.

~ Toba Beta

We need to perceive ourselves as the special race.If not, beasts will perceive themselves as the chosen.

~ Toba Beta

He leaned down and kissed my forehead. The soft melody of his lips was calming. I closed my eyes. I could smell his human skin, his human breath, his human hair, and for the first time, I would give anything to be human too.

~ Alysha Speer

I saw the patterns of history and thought that a human might be eighty per cent chemicals, eighteen per cent his past, and two per cent feeling, creatures of habit. Which makes psychiatrists really pharmacists who have to listen longer.

~ Gerard Donovan

But I knew what it said. That I could be imperfect, but only so much. Human, but only within limits. And honest, to her or to myself, never.

~ Sarah Dessen

The only disability that I have, is that I'm human.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Emotion is not what makes us weak. It's what makes us human, The ability to care, even if people often do not.

~ Tony Moyle

Being human complicates things.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

People say ‘dogs who roam in Mercedes are Lucky’, this is your feeling, not the Dog’s!!!

~ Harrish Sairaman

Right now universes are being created thrown together and destroyed the world over. Seven billion souls, each preoccupied with their own unique reality, each with a head full of memories, plans, learned knowledge and accumulated trivia; birthdays, telephone numbers, bus routes, passwords. Each one with somewhere to go, something they need to get done. They all have birth certificates and shoe sizes. Every single one has a story.

~ Graeme Cameron

For eighty-eight years, the world revolved around Ivy. That which she could see and touch was real to her, everything else a mere figment. Departing visitors, setting off back for their own lives, were swiftly dispatched from her conscious thoughts, taking with them all tangible evidence of their existence. She would lock her doors to the outside world and settle down with a cup of tea, but for Foggy entirely alone in her world. And yet conversely, whilst the conversation in that departing car might revolve around Ivy for a handful of miles, the reality of her existence would soon be forgotten in favor of the more immediate stresses and strains pervading the lives of Peter and Janet. Out of sight, out of mind.Every human being occupies a space at the dead center of his or her own universe.

~ Graeme Cameron

People were animals, and animals were nothing but teeth. You bit first, and you bit often, That was the only way to survive.

~ Frances Hardinge

...he was not so much a human as a civil war.

~ H.g. Wells

One day,” he said, “everybody’s gonna wake up and realize their parents are human beings, just like them. Sometimes they’re good people, sometimes they’re not.

~ Krystal Sutherland

The moon understands what it means to be human. Uncertain. Alone. Catered by imperfections.

~ Unknown

Ah, brothers, this God which I created was human work and human madness, like all gods!He was human, and only a poor piece of man and Ego: this phantom came to me from my own fire and ashes, that is the truth! It did not come from the ‘beyond’!

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Oh, no, nope, shoot. Are we about to human mate?

~ Jackson Lanzing

When we get down to the very basics of human life we find that we arrive to take a ride on spaceship Earth for several decades and then we leave.

~ Steven Magee

The moon understands what it means to be human. Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections.

~ Unknown

Being human gets so tiresome at times.

~ Rhett Devane