I am only human, although I regret it.

And the ultimate question remains, To live, is it a blessing or the punishment itself ?

To this day, she’s still sad. Because there’s not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it. I’m just saying that I took the pain that...

In the long run one gets used to anything.

He taught us that everyone has a good story and the more of others you understand, the better your grasp of human nature, a gift given great weight in my family.

Perception believed is reality achieved

Holly girl, you are all too human, I can assure you. Prickly and awkward and human, because that’s what witches are – human, that is, not necessarily the prickly and annoying bit. That’s just you.

He lives down in a ribcage in the dry leaves of a heart.

While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed the true and foul odor of my soul, love was...

He knew how intelligent men could be broken by the stupidity of their superiors, how weeks of patient work night and day could be cast aside by such a man

In the cause of expedience and the quest for information, man has always been willing to trump his laws and betray his beliefs to legitimize the torture of those who do not share them.

De gustibus non est disputandum”: It is worthless to discuss personal taste. It is called ‘personal’ for a reason.

You get more misanthropic every day.- I get older every day. My experience of human nature gets wider and deeper.

Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.

The human ego is the ugliest part of man. We lift up men who only show us darkness, and put down those brave enough to show us the light. Likewise, people engage in darkness when...

we are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility.

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.

What people think of you is only what they think of themselves. They look at you and see the maladies, the faults they’ve been carrying within themselves for the longest time. And they identified each...

We crave magic because we are magic. We crave power because we are pure power.

They can fatten me up. They can give me a full body polish, dress me up, and make me beautiful again. They can design dream weapons that come to life in my hands, but they...

But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?

I shall love my kind of love anyway, doggedly, for I must certainly do the best I can with my own nature and if my nature is to love too well or from afar or...

the fact that there was this capacity even in a paranoiac for intelligence, even in a devil worshipper for love; the fact that the ground of all being could be totally manifest in a flowering...

It’s so easy to understand even an unknown person’s real nature through the things that he likes, but it’s possible only to a few people who are actually caring to others for being true to...

I also knew I had inherited the name of the world’s most famous philosopher. I hated that. Everyone expected something from me. Something I just couldn’t give.So I renamed myself Ari.If I switched the letter,...

Writing isn’t about creating perfect characters. There’s no such thing. It’s about creating characters that are real; flawed– yet beautiful, in that they know they need another person. Needing someone else doesn’t make them weak;...

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn’t that what people do?

I am Envy…I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.

Scientist are human. Unraveling the knots of Nature’s mysteries is a reward in itself; but even so, scientists like to hear the applause of the audience

There is such a thing as righteous judgment, but it seems that lately the word ‘judgment’ has become a curse word, period. The issue isn’t whether or not we’re insightful enough to avoid being judgmental,...

The more one judges, the less one loves.

Why was it, she asked herself, that “animals can sometimes subdue their predatory ways in only a few months, while humans, despite centuries of refinement, can quickly grow more savage than any beast?

People grow, but they don’t change.

One saw a bird dying, shot by a man. It was flying with rhythmic beat and beautifully, with such freedom and lack of fear. And the gun shattered it; it fell to the earth and...

I’m the scratchy stuff on the side of the matchbox. But that’s fine with me. I don’t mind at all. Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match.

But in my growth and development, I knew I wanted more. And more. Oh, God. So much more. It’s what being human is all about.

I live in a world where people are guided by limited imagination; only facts that are favorable to them are truths. They are unable to live anyway else. When a person finds out that a...

[For] decades, researchers have told us that the link between cataclysm and social disintegration is a myth perpetuated by movies, fiction, and misguided journalism. In fact, in case after case, the opposite occurs: In the...

Will liked to live so that no one could find fault with him, and to do that he had to live as nearly like other people as possible.

If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism — at least in the sense of this work — is the secret of religion itself; that religion itself, not indeed...

A lifetime isn’t enough to know how a person will behave.

Trust and condemnation work hand in hand for both work on the concept of experience, of knowing it, observing it, realizing it, understanding it and finally accepting it in either of the two categories for...

Most creatures run when they sense danger. People grab a six-pack and a folding chair.

Looters become looted, while time and tide make us mercenaries all.

Seni sama pentingnya dengan matematika. Seni memanusiakan manusia. Seni menciptakan rasa empati

Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?–TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF DROWNING CHILD. If a man gets lost in the mountains, hundreds will search and often two or three...

One human could simply withhold its feelings and intentions from another human by failing to audibilize or it could audibilize things that were not real. The other human would be aware only of what it...

You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn’t annihilate human nature.

friends are thieves of time

In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. They are generally more set on...