We are always fearful for ourselves in this life.
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Before men decline into old age, even in the very bloom of youth, they are involved in many troubles, and they cannot escape from the cares, weariness, sorrows, fears, griefs, inconveniences, and anxieties to which mortal life is subject.
We take nothing from the womb but pure filth [meras sordes]. The seething spring of sin is so deep and abundant that vices are always bubbling up form it to bespatter and stain what is otherwise pure.... We should remember that we are not guilty of one offense only but are buried in innumerable impu…
Man is never perfect, nor contented.
I want to live, breathe, I want to be part of the human race,
The human soul is a lonely thing.
But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.
The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don’t need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.
The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.
Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.
Books don’t change the world, people change the world, books only change people.
People are very bad and very good. A little love goes a long way.
I’m just a human being trying to make it in a world that is very rapidly losing its understanding of being human.
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one.
I wondered why nobody ever told me it is human to be angry, unforgiving, and blunt at times.
It’s a mystery of human chemistry and I don’t understand it. Some people, as far as the senses are concerned, just feel like home.
To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.
The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.
The human heart is a dark forest
There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human - in not having to be just happy or just sad - in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.