“Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.”— Max Brooks, amazon.com
“We have all hurt someone tremendously, whether by intent or accident. We have all loved someone tremendously, whether by intent or accident. It is an intrinsic human trait, and a deep responsibility, I think, to be an organ and a blade. But, learning to forgive ourselves and others because we have n…”— Nayyirah Waheed, Warsan Shire, kepthoney.com
“Figuring out who people are takes time. And it takes twice as much time if they're trying to impress you.”— Doris Egan, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, amazon.com
“I don't believe in psychology; which says everything you do is because of yourself. That is so untrue. We are social animals, and everything we do is because of other people, because we love them, or because we don't.”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“dear samantha i’m sorry we have to get a divorce i know that seems like an odd way to start a love letter but let me explain: it’s not you it sure as hell isn’t me it’s just human beings don’t love as well as insects do I love you far too much to let what we have be ruined by the failings of our spe…”— Jared Singer, armedwithvisions.com
“A lot of the stuff in People is the same stuff that people blame the Internet for encouraging. Cute, short and colorful. So it's not Digital's fault.”— Gemma Sieff, 0s-1s.com
“He said that man’s heart was the only bad heart in the animal kingdom; that man was the only animal capable of feeling malice, envy, vindictiveness, revengefulness, hatred, selfishness, the only animal that loves drunkenness, almost the only animal that could endure personal uncleanliness and a filt…”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel; at is worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable; and first and last and all the time he is a sarcasm. Yet he blandly and in all sincerity calls himself the 'noblest work of God.'”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.”— Andy Warhol, amazon.com
“There is no prose as inspiring as a single human being with the courage to live well.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.com
“Imagine immortality, where even a marriage of fifty years would feel like a one-night stand. Imagine seeing trends and fashions blur past you. Imagine the world more crowded and desperate every century. Imagine changing religions, homes, diets, careers, until none of them have any real value.Imagine…”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com