People Quotes

People cannot win against their loneliness because loneliness is this world’s worst kind of pain.

~ Masashi Kishimoto

Every now and then, I'll run into someone who claims not to like chocolate, and while we live in a country where everyone has the right to eat what they want, I want to say for the record that I don't trust these people, that I think something is wrong with them, and that they're probably - and this must be said - total duds in bed.

~ Steve Almond

Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Our people are good people, our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor.

~ John Steinbeck

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

~ Joyce Carol Oates

There are four kinds of people to avoid in the world: the assholes, the asswipes, the ass-kissers, and those that just will shit all over you.

~ Anthony Liccione

The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.

~ Karl Kraus

People don't want other people to be people.

~ Gene Wolfe

The person you have known a long tme is embedded in you like a jewel. The person you have just met casts out a few glistening beams & you are fascinated to see more of them. How many more are there? With someone you've barely met the curiosity is intoxicating.

~ Naomi Shihab Nye

Fake friends; those who only drill holes under your boat to get it leaking; those who discredit your ambitions and those who pretend they love you, but behind their backs they know they are in to destroy your legacies.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Most people are boring and stupid.

~ Oscar Wilde

Sometimes we meet people and are so symbiotic with them, it’s as if we are one person, with one mind, one destiny.

~ Gayle Forman

Words are like people, I think. Put too many of them too close together and they cause trouble.

~ Carolee Dean

Love may be harder to find in some people, but when they do love you know it must be something marvelous.

~ Criss Jami

I knew people were talking, but I wasn't listening. I wasn't interested in anything anyone had to say.

~ Michael Thomas Ford

People are... Full of contradictions. They're lonely. And then they're not. They're missed. And then they're not.

~ Kou Yoneda

As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People diminished me, they sucked me dry.

~ Charles Bukowski

Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally, one has to rehearse for it.

~ Michel Faber

You learn to move on without the people you love.

~ Bret Easton Ellis

You could push people away, past their limits, even accidentally, and then it was just too late to get them back

~ Laura Moriarty

There are so many people. It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.

~ John Green

Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad.

~ George R.r. Martin

So, now I shall talk every night. To myself. To the moon. I shall walk, as I did tonight, jealous of my loneliness, in the blue-silver of the cold moon, shining brilliantly on the drifts of fresh-fallen snow, with the myriad sparkles. I talk to myself and look at the dark trees, blessedly neutral. So much easier than facing people, than having to look happy, invulnerable, clever. With masks down, I walk, talking to the moon, to the neutral impersonal force that does not hear, but merely accepts my being. And does not smite me down.

~ Sylvia Plath

And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone or that's an evil one because it hurts them. People are too complicated to have simple labels.

~ Philip Pullman

People and their rituals. They cling to things so hard sometimes.

~ Garth Stein

Listen to me. They may control what you do, but no one can pee on your soul without your permission.

~ A.s. King

I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.

~ Susan Sontag

People surprise you, Frank, with just how fuckin stupid they are.

~ Richard Ford

I am weird, and you know what? That's OK. So are most interesting people.

~ Em Bailey

I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.

~ Colette

Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity: who could be ill-disposed toward it on that account? And this kind of virtue has not been outlived even today. A kind of sturdy peasant simplicity, which, however, is possible in all classes and can be encountered only with respect and a smile, believes even today that everything is in good hands, namely in the hands of God; and when it maintains this proportion with the same modest certainty as it would that two and two make four, we others certainly refrain from contradicting. Why disturb THIS pure foolishness? Why darken it with our worries about man, people, goal, future? And even if we wanted to do it, we could not. They project their own honorable stupidity and goodness into the heart of things (the old God, deus myops, still lives among them!); we others — we read something else into the heart of things: our own enigmatic nature, our contradictions, our deeper, more painful, more mistrustful wisdom.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

I know nothing - nothing in the world - of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone - horribly alone.

~ Ford Madox Ford

Then it hit me and I just blurted, 'I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.

~ Sylvia Plath

A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.

~ Zig Ziglar

When people complain of your complexity, they fail to remember that they made fun of your simplicity.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

As the new work fills my notebooks, I've come to realize that the characters in my stories were so real because I really did want to get close to people, I really did want to know them. It was just easier to do it on paper, one step removed.

~ Charles De Lint

People appear like angels until you hear them speak. You must not rush to judge people by the colour of their cloaks, but by the content of their words!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

People always wanted someone to blame, didn't they?

~ Eileen Wilks

Their life is mysterious, it is like a forest; from far off it seems a unity, it can be comprehended, described, but closer it begins to separate, to break into light and shadow, the density blinds one. Within there is no form, only prodigious detail that reaches everywhere: exotic sounds, spills of sunlight, foliage, fallen trees, small beasts that flee at the sound of a twig-snap, insects, silence, flowers.And all of this, dependent, closely woven, all of it is deceiving. There are really two kinds of life. There is, as Viri says, the one people believe you are living, and there is the other. It is this other which causes the trouble, this other we long to see.

~ James Salter

That was the thing to remember about all monsters, They love to frightenpeople, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run.

~ Jeannette Walls