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Humanity Quotes (page 261)

Suffering, I was beginning to think, was essential to a good life, and as inextricable from such a life as bliss. It’s a great enhancer. It might last a minute, but eventually it subsides, and when it does, something else takes its place, and maybe that thing is a great space. For happiness. Each time I encountered suffering, I believed that I grew, and further defined my capacities – not just my physical ones, but my interior ones as well, for contentment, friendship, or any other human... Lance Armstrong
Salman Rushdie quote: "Can one drown in one's element... If fish can drown in water,..."
Can one drown in one's element... If fish can drown in water, can human beings suffocate in air? Salman Rushdie
Maybe thinking you're supposed to 'have a life' is a stupid way of buying into an untenable 1950s narrative of what life *supposed* to be. How do we know that all of these people with 'no lives' aren't really on the new frontier of human sentience and preceptions? Doug Coupland
...I remember thinking how often we look, but never see...we listen, but never hear...we exist, but never feel. We take our relationships for granted. A house is only a place. It has no life of its own. It needs human voices, activity and laughter to come alive. Erma Bombeck
Sloppy language and sloppy ways go together. Those who are truly educated have learned more than the sciences, the humanities, law, engineering, and the arts. They carry with them a certain polish that marks them as loving the better qualities of life, a culture that adds luster to the mundane world of which they are apart, a patina that puts a quiet glow on what otherwise might be base metal. Gordon B. Hinckley
Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty...the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his fear of life, his arid heart; and it is always, therefore, the signal of secret and violent humanity, the mark of cruelty. James Baldwin
There's no denying his resemblance to the Rodin bronze - the slender, effortless muscularity of youth, the extravagant nonchalance of it; that sense that beauty is in fact the natural human condition and not the rarest of mutations. Michael Cunningham
Hilaire Belloc quote: "The control of the production of wealth is the control of..."
The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself. Hilaire Belloc
It has been my experience that most human stories are circular rather than linear. Regardless of the path we choose, we somehow end up where we commenced - in part, I suspect, because the child who lives in us goes along for the ride. James Lee Burke
With the weight of four thousand years of cannibalism bearing down upon me, even if I was once innocent how can I now face real humans? Lu Xun
P. G. Wodehouse quote: "She's a sort of human vampire-bat"
She's a sort of human vampire-bat P. G. Wodehouse
Stephenie Meyer quote: "I, the soul called Wanderer, love you, human Ian. And that..."
I, the soul called Wanderer, love you, human Ian. And that will never change, no matter what I might become. Stephenie Meyer
She wanted—what some people want throughout life—a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanize and make her capable of sympathy. Nathaniel Hawthorne
... characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility that the author thinks no one else has discovered or said something essential about. Milan Kundera
Charles Dickens quote: "The leprosy of unreality disfigured every human creature in..."
The leprosy of unreality disfigured every human creature in attendance. Charles Dickens

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