Human Quotes

Property is not the natural and obvious and inevitable concept that most people think it is.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

The human emotions are worthy of nothing when our existence has no realistic value.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

It may be said, in broad-brush terms, that the primary purpose of life is the continuation of life. A deep program for survival and reproduction underwrites the complex cycles of life, in which death is the grand equalizer. There is, however, a peculiar novelty: human awareness of the cycle of life and a capacity to anticipate our own, individual death.

~ Richard J. Borden

The artist says to the cosmos: All I ask is infinite love-is that so very wrong? And the cosmos doesn't even bother to respond.

~ John Lanchester

They are distinct enough that our crude instruments can pick up the differences, yet both are healthy instances of that staggeringly improbable, exquisitely engineered system we call a human being.

~ Steven Pinker

One of the greatest gift you can give another human being whi is going through adversity is HOPE.

~ Shaka Senghor

The only way we can touch the heart of men is to overlook an offense.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Having a roof over your head with enough food to eat is a fundamental need of all humans if they are to achieve happiness.

~ Gyalwa Dokhampa

Samsa looked down in dismay at his naked body. How ill-formed it was! Worse than ill-formed. It possessed no means of self-defense. Smooth white skin (covered by only a perfunctory amount of hair) with fragile blue blood vessels visible through it; a soft, unprotected belly; ludicrous, impossibly shaped genitals; gangly arms and legs (just two of each!); a scrawny, breakable neck; an enormous, misshapen head with a tangle of stiff hair on its crown; two absurd ears, jutting out like a pair of seashells. Was this thing really him? Could a body so preposterous, so easy to destroy (no shell for protection, no weapons for attack), survive in the world?

~ Haruki Murakami

I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire.

~ Roy Orbison

He knelt among the shadows and felt his isolation bitterly. They were savages it was true, but they were human.

~ William Golding

Remarkable, really, the lengths to which humans will go to fit things into their version of reality.

~ Rick Riordan

You're like this...this goddess pretending to be human... And I don't know which one I love.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

Love Has No Color.... No Race.... Love Is Pure And Divine But Only A Little of Us Are Able To Preserve It's Purity.... Sadly, In This Digital World, Purity Is Rare To Find In Human....

~ Muhammad Imran Hasan

The human race is one of the few creatures whom can cry tears. If you look at us we are running around like small insects—all submerged in our own important errands. Everyone blind of whats going on underneath their own noses. We can be compassionate as well as evil. We can love and we can destroy. I will always wonder how the same creature can do both. Oxymoron.” Everything Changes, Always.

~ Adrian Sandvaer

The human brain has billions of neurons and hundreds of billions of interconnections. It can process more than two million bits of information per second and can remember everything you have ever seen or heard.

~ Ben Carson

True, beneath the human façade, I was an interloper, an alien whose ship had crashed beyond hope of repair in the backwoods of Southern Appalachia—but at least I’d learned to walk and talk enough like the locals to be rejected as one of their own.

~ Sol Luckman

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

~ Man Ray

Sometimes being vulnerable as a child is not knowing what lies ahead. We think our choices will make a huge difference in our lives because our parents and other elders spend so much time making sure we think before we act and make our minds up about what we want to be “when we grow up”. Some are already at that stage early on, some are not. We learn the ways of the world all in good time, but being vulnerable is to be human. We never stop.

~ Cyndi Goodgame

Humans are amazing ritual animals, and it must be understood that the Tzutujil, nor any other real intact people, do not 'practice' rituals. Just as a bear must turn over stumps searching for beetles, real humans can only live life spiritually. Birth itself was a ritual: there was not a ritual for birth, or a ritual for death, or a ritual for marriage, for death was a ritual, life a ritual, cooking a ritual, and eating were all rituals with ceremonial guidelines, all of which fed life. Sleeping was a ritual, lovemaking was a ritual, sowing, cultivating, harvesting, storing food were rituals, even sweeping, insulting, fighting were rituals, everything human was a ritual, and to all Tzutujil, ritual was plant-oriented and based on feeding some big Holy ongoing vine-like, tree-like, proceedance that fed us it's fruit.

~ Martin Prechtel

Because you are neither an angel nor a god. I am quite aware that your actions have been prompted by your pure feelings, and I understand perfectly well that, for that very reason, you do not wish to receive money for what you have done. But pure unadultered feelings are dangerous in their own way. It is no easy feat for a flesh-and-blood human being to go on living with such feelings. That is why it is necessary for you to fasten your feelings to the earth – firmly, like attaching an anchor to a balloon. The money is for that. To prevent you from feeling that you can do anything you want as long as it’s the right thing and your feelings are pure.

~ Haruki Murakami

For your information, Lester, there are at least five wonderful parts of the female body that can be viewed by the owner only with a hand mirror.

~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Pages entertain me more than pictures do.

~ Amit Kalantri

The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in livingcreatures on the hither side of good and evil. In human beings it was visible only when they were inrepose, their minds untroubled, their bodies motionless.

~ Aldous Huxley

For your information, Lester, there are at least five wonderful parts of the female body that can be viewed by the owner only with a hand mirror.'And as they stared after me, I went regally back down the hallway and up the stairs to Dad's room.

~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

There is a certain beauty in our intrinsic human cruelty.

~ Youssef

Whenever a person is the object of your activity, remember that you may not treat that person as only the means to an end, as in instrument, but must allow for the fact that he or she, too, has or at least should have, distinct personal ends.

~ John Paul Ii

To err is human, to accept full responsibility is to just run with it

~ Josh Stern

WANG. We live in a time of great change. It is easy to find monsters- and as easy to find heroes. To judge rightly what is good - to choose between good and evil - that is all that is to be human.

~ Edward Bond

I was enjoying the great human trophy hunt and, looking back, it scares the hell out of me

~ Clint Van Winkle

No account of the history of the Allahabad High Court can ever becomplete without an honourable and detailed reference to PunditKanhaiya Lal Misra and the multifaceted and many splendoured trailthat he has left behind not only in the field of Law but in almost everyother sphere of noble human activity.

~ Munindra Misra

I think acting is revealing to people what it means to be human.

~ Nick Enright

Joy, anger, sadness, pleasure, love, evil, greed. Where is your heart at? This world is like a furnace you temper yourself, and your character. This is the same for everyone.

~ Da Xia

A human who learns, and practices the art of love as does divinity, is no longer human.

~ T.f. Hodge

To kill someone it's not necessary to have weapons, your words and attitude can do the same job.

~ M.h. Rakib

Better or worse, we are living such a fallacious world, where people like to seek their own interests in in others' matters.

~ M.h. Rakib

The first Abenaki word I ever learned was Bitawbagok – the word they use for Lake Champlain. It means, literally, the waters between. Since I’ve come back from Quebec, I have thought of my address as Bitawkdakinna. I don’t know enough Abenaki to be sure it’s a real word, but translated, it is the world between. I had become a bridge between the natural world and the human one. I fit into both places and belonged to neither. Half of my heart lived with the wild wolves, the other half lived with my family.

~ Jodi Picoult

I walk this road of flames and danger alone. To see the ocean of dreams. And drink from its endless freedom that flows though our vein's to be someone/something much more than human.

~ Sequence Kye Kenneth Young

Regardless of what comes and goes on the stage, the stage is always just there. The people of the world are all actors, but if they own the stage, they become the masters. As masters, they will always be able to act on the stage.

~ Woo Myung

Improving the human condition takes little effort, destroying it takes maximum force.

~ T.f. Hodge