Humans Quotes

A demon obsessed with being human is a demon no longer

~ John Connolly

Relationships are where we humans get our greatest education.

~ Pamela Cummins

Humans, in the day that has been the Earth, have been here for less than a minute. We’re a late-night piss in the toilet, that’s all we are.

~ Matt Haig

Living things aren't finished, you see. Everything they have ever been in contact with, each thought they have had, each person they have known - these things are still at work in them; nothing's finished.(The Graveyard Reader)

~ Theodore Sturgeon

Like many human beings, he took the least sign of conversation as his cue to make noise.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

There’s only one Earth, and it’s tiny, but evil human leaders avoid problems they don’t want to resolve by giving them names which make the problems sound like they’re taking place in a different world: they make people not care about other people dying of starvation by calling the place the dying live “the third world.

~ Craig Stone

They put money into attack, by calling it defence.

~ Craig Stone

There were details like clothing, hair styles and the fragile objects that hardly ever survive for the archaeologist—musical instruments, bows and arrows, and body ornaments depicted as they were worn. … No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.

~ Mary Leakey

Man can't handle the chaos. Oh, you can understand it in the abstract, as long as you don't think about it too hard. But at the core of it, whenever humans come against chaos, they deal with it in one of three ways. ... Faced with chaos you will either ignore it, dance around it, or you will go mad.

~ Ilona Andrews

Maple thought optimistically that human beings, on their good days, weren't much dimmer than sheep. Or at least, not much dimmer than dim sheep.

~ Leonie Swann

Nature creates curved lines while humans create straight lines.

~ Hideki Yukawa

You can’t mind these things, you just can’t, for to dislike what makes a person human is to dislike all humans.

~ Daniel Handler

You could take the entirety of the common sense of humans and put it in the palm of your hand and still have room for your dick.

~ Anne Carson

Black holes are the last vestige of civilizations obsessed with tinkering.

~ Kane Freeman

You do not require a license to love someone; you don’t need to pass any complicated tests. Love does not have age limitations, rules, or restrictions. Love is our birthright—it is the one thing that all humans know how to do, the one thing we all deserve. You can’t force it or fake it. You can know someone for an entire lifetime, and not feel a drop of love for them. And you can know someone for a single day, and give your heart to them completely.

~ Nadia Scrieva

Let us forget that we are Baptists, Methodists, Catholics, Presbyterians, or Free-thinkers, and remember only that we are men and women. After all, man and woman are the highest possible titles. All other names belittle us, and show that we have, to a certain extent, given up our individuality, and have consented to wear the collar of authority—that we are followers. Throwing away these names, let us examine these questions not as partisans, but as human beings with hopes and fears in common.

~ Robert G. Ingersoll

The humans create life, and senselessly cause death. For nothing.

~ Rachel Cohn

Humans are pretty complicated,” I said. “No, Boy. Rain-forest ecosystems are complicated. Humans are just a mess.

~ Jon Skovron

Tea carries within itself; knowledge, wisdom, and wellness; for the sake of giving.

~ Aniruddha Sastikar

...the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world.

~ John Green

I refuse to believe that gods want to make mortals unhappy and torment them. That's what humans do. And humans are very definitely not divine.

~ Karen Traviss

God had conceived humans’ heterosexuals, until they start making initiatives.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

let’s face it: Most girls are annoying. I mean, most humans are annoying, so it’s not specific to girls. Also, I don’t really mean “annoying.” I guess I mean that most humans like to try to fuck up your plans.

~ Jesse Andrews

Human beings are pattern-seeking animals. It's part of our DNA. That's why conspiracy theories and gods are so popular: we always look for the wider, bigger explanations for things.

~ Adrian Mckinty

Just because they didn't know they were killing human beings doesn't mean they weren't killing human beings.

~ Orson Scott Card

On the surface, humans appear to hate conflict, but in reality, they seek it.

~ Nagaru Tanigawa

Wherever one encounters members of the human race, they always show the traits of a being that is condemned to surrealistic effort. Whoever goes in search of humans will find acrobats.

~ Peter Sloterdijk

Anna… envied Joan’s deep connection with the human race. She was a member of the club. Anna was half convinced she’d been begotten by a passing alien life-form on a human woman. It was as good an explanation as any for the sense she had of being an outsider.

~ Nevada Barr

Darwin called such a process artificial, as opposed to natural, selection, but from the flower’s point of view, this is a distinction without a difference: individual plants in which a trait desired by either bees or Turks occurred wound up with more offspring.

~ Michael Pollan

It is in the imperceptible space between that which touches and that which is touched that one body can be felt, no matter how closely, to be different from another.

~ Daniel Heller-Roazen

The difference between human and other species is, they eat each other when they have nothing to eat, but we eat each other while having everything.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Humans are the unrivaled plague the nature has even seen.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

We humans kill and murder every species and still we claim to be the peace lovers.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Look out there. Can you feel them? Incredible to think - other human beings out there. You strain your eyes the whole day long, see nothing, hear nothing, still can't believe it somehow - but know it's true. Other warm bodies, hearts pumping blood. That ought to make us feel less lonely, or safer, it seems. Then why is it so shocking? Because - they don't belong here. The possibility of life in this place is more terrifying than the place itself. Can it be that we're really here?

~ Ted Tally

There is much enjoy in vengeance than love, and we humans already knew that.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Humans are very strange. When you need a hug, they throw you away, when you need condolence , they insult you, and when you need love, they betray you.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

~ Ovid

Long after the traces of the human animal have disappeared, many of the species it is bent on destroying will still be around, along with others that have yet to spring up.The Earth will forget mankind. The play of life will go on.

~ John N. Gray

You could also ask who’s in charge. Lots of people think, well, we’re humans; we’re the most intelligent and accomplished species; we’re in charge. Bacteria may have a different outlook: more bacteria live and work in one linear centimeter of your lower colon than all the humans who have ever lived. That’s what’s going on in your digestive tract right now. Are we in charge, or are we simply hosts for bacteria? It all depends on your outlook.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

Humans were always surprising me.

~ Stephenie Meyer