“This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.”— Orson Scott Card, amazon.com
“Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.”— Anaïs Nin, amazon.com
“I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals. It’s the only thing I do believe in.”— E. M. Forster, amazon.com
“Everybody’s born with some different thing at the core of their existence. And that thing, whatever it is, becomes like a heat source that runs each person from the inside. I have one too, of course. Like everybody else. But sometimes it gets out of hand. It swells or shrinks inside me, and it shake…”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man’s face. It cannot be concealed.”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com
“We have not immortal souls, we shall never live again; but, like the green sea-weed, when once it has been cut off, we can never flourish more. Human beings, on the contrary, have a soul which lives forever, lives after the body has been turned to dust. It rises up through the clear, pure air beyond…”— Hans Christian Andersen, amazon.com
“It is painfully easy to define human beings. They are beings who, for no good reason at all, create their own unnecessary suffering.”— Natsume Soseki, amazon.com
“Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.”— Albert Einstein, goodreads.com
“I think there’s a big difference between being a bad person and being bad at being a person.”— Megan Falley, amazon.com
“Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”— Yasunari Kawabata, amazon.com
“Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capable only of fractured perceptions.”— Salman Rushdie, amazon.com
“The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.”— Mary Ellen Mark, maryellenmark.com
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying”— Arthur C. Clarke, amazon.com
“From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being…by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list…”— Paul Newman, amazon.com
“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.”— Yohji Yamamoto, amazon.com
“I always marvel at the humans’ ability to keep going. They always manage to stagger on even with tears streaming down their faces.”— Markus Zusak, amazon.com
“You strike me as a kind person. I hope your world is kind. By which I mean, I’ve heard we see the world not as it is but as we are. A saint sees a world of saints, a killer sees only murderers and victims.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.”— Frank Herbert, amazon.com