Humans Quotes

But I find something compelling in the game's choreography, the way one move implies the next. The kings are an apt metaphor for human beings: utterly constrained by the rules of the game, defenseless against bombardment from all sides, able only to temporarily dodge disaster by moving one step in any direction.

~ Jennifer Dubois

So the people of Earth thought they had instructions from the Creator of the Universe Himself to wreck the joint. But they were going at it too slowly for the Elders, so the Elders put it into the people's heads that they themselves were the life forms that were supposed to spread out through the Universe. This was a preposterous ideas, of course. In the words of a nameless author: How could all that meat, needing so much food and water and oxygen, and with bowel movements so enormous, expect to survive a trip of any distance whatsoever through the limitless void of outer space? It was a miracle that such ravenous and cumbersome giants could make a roundtrip for a 6-pack to the nearest grocery store.

~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

I find myself thinking about this hue-mon all of the time. I wonder if it ever thought about us?Was there room in here for thoughts about beetles?Did it ever wonder how some glow?Or spray liquid fire?Or dance on water?Or drink fog?Maybe someday, if a hue-mon reads this journal, it will help them appreciate all of the amazing little aliens living underfoot.

~ Jay Hosler

People scare me more than anything, for I know too well the savagery of which humankind is capable.

~ Dean Koontz

Those who teach the most about humanity, aren’t always human.

~ Donald L. Hicks

Were it not for frustration and humiliationI suppose the human race would get ideas above its station.

~ Ogden Nash

I deliberately seek out the colors to keep my mind off them, but now and then, I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair and surprise.

~ Markus Zusak

Human bodies are such garbage bags.

~ Dennis Cooper

Rather than heralding a new era of easy living, the Agricultural Revolution left farmers with lives generally more difficult and less satisfying than those of foragers. Hunter-gatherers spent their time in more stimulating and varied ways, and were less in danger of starvation and disease. The Agricultural Revolution certainly enlarged the sum total of food at the disposal of humankind, but the extra food did not translate into a better diet or more leisure. Rather, it translated into population explosions and pampered elites. The average farmer worked harder than the average forager, and got a worse diet in return. The Agricultural Revolution was history’s biggest fraud.

~ Yuval Noah Harari

If we were entirely sane, if madness did not have a serious grip on one side of us, other people's tragedies would hold a great deal less interest for us.

~ Alain De Botton

Why do you think we are the only animal that kisses? She was near again. Because the area in front of our faces is our most intimate zone. She drew a breath. This is why humans are the only romantic animal!

~ Miranda July

People observe the colors of a day at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quiet clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations, with each passing moment.

~ Markus Zusak

The Internet is fast, while humans are slow; capacious, while humans are forgetful.

~ Michael Chorost

Humans are destructive animals, but they are also wise ones.

~ Gemma Malley

What do you do with humans? You eat from them just a little, if they are delicious. You delight in their flesh sometimes, if they are not tedious.

~ Benjanun Sriduangkaew

You proudly said. We are Humans! In reality, we are a bunch of sarcastic, selfish and stupid well-intentioned creatures without any remorse for anything. So, think again about your pride and become, at least, more humble.

~ J.b.alves

Said by Colin the dragon:It's somewhat bizarre to learn that many of you (humans)think that other humans are somehow different enough to be hated and killed, when in reality you're all all tiresomely similiar in outlook, needs and motivation, and differ only by peculiar habits, generally shaped by geographical circumstance.

~ Jasper Fforde

The best way to think of the ageing process in relation to a human face is to imagine a map of an area of innocent land which slowly becomes a city with many long and winding routes.

~ Matt Haig

The human being is single, unique, and unrepeatable, someone thought of and chosen from eternity, someone called and identified by name

~ John Paul Ii

The truth is, the hypocrisy of humans is everywhere

~ Jeremy Griffith

What a sad thing men are. Can't do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can't build something up without tearing it down.

~ Patrick Ness

If someone looks into your eyes, I read in a book one time, he'll see right into your soul. I didn't want anyone to see into my soul.

~ Patricia Reilly Giff

The next day I had a hangover.I realised that if getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.

~ Matt Haig

That’s why we all hate ’em, he thought. Those expressionless eyes watch us, those big faces turn to follow us, and doesn’t it just look as if they’re making notes and taking names? If you heard that one had bashed in someone’s head over in Quirm or somewhere, wouldn’t you just love to believe it? A voice inside, a voice which generally came to him only in the quiet hours of the night or, in the old days, half-way down a whiskey bottle, added: Given how we use them, maybe we’re scared because we know we deserve it…

~ Terry Pratchett

Scientists found that there are exactly as many skin pigment colors to the various races of this world as there are different colors of soil [dirt].

~ Stacy R. Webb

Why we don’t feel sorry for killing thousands of mosquitoes every day? Are they useless or too many? We humans must realize it before it is too late.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Apes or human – we all made the same mistake, tempted by shifting leaves or the smell of sex, by music or a ripe banana.

~ Kathryn Davis

If humans know themselves, they will find that human is real asset and secret of universe. And if they recognize Allaah, they will find nothing but Allaah in the universe.

~ Junaid Raza

The question that naturally occurs is “What would it be like if a star exploded nearby?” Our nearest stellar neighbor, as we have seen, is Alpha Centauri, 4.3 light-years away. I had imagined that if there were an explosion there we would have 4.3 years to watch the light of this magnificent event spreading across the sky, as if tipped from a giant can. What would it be like if we had four years and four months to watch an inescapable doom advancing toward us, knowing that when it finally arrived it would blow the skin right off our bones? Would people still go to work? Would farmers plant crops? Would anyone deliver them to the stores?

~ Bill Bryson

People don't always want what they need nor do they need what they want , but they always need to want.

~ Shaun Maia

We humans are confined to our brane.

~ Kip S. Thorne

Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation (or, more probably, mutations) that set us apart—the mutations that make us the sort of creature that could wipe out its nearest relative, then dig up its bones and reassemble its genome.

~ Elizabeth Kolbert

Why do Twolegs do anything? If we knew that, our lives would be a lot easier.

~ Erin Hunter

We are humans, they say we are mortals. Though we do live once but can last forever.

~ M.h. Rakib

Humans do worse things with money rather than for money.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Twolegs are mad. Even the smallest kit knows that.

~ Erin Hunter

Most people are sheep and sheep don't eat meat

~ Stephen King

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

~ Malcolm De Chazal

Humans don’t make sense.”“If you’re only now learning that,” Kaladin said, “then you haven’t been paying attention.

~ Brandon Sanderson

Go on,” he offered magnanimously. “Feel free to piss on yourselves andcower helplessly.”Gods, sometimes his generosity overwhelmed him.

~ G.a. Aiken