2,272 Quotes About Human-nature

We feel a private thrill, admit it, at the sight of beauty in flames. We wish to blast all the fine old things to oblivion and replace them with tasteless identicalstructures.

Beware the dark pool at the bottom of our hearts. In its icy, black depths dwell strange and twisted creatures it is best not to disturb.

You’re either good, or you’re clever.

Nothing could have been more imprudent or more natural than this reply. It reflected the ecstasy inspired by great crises.

By all means, become an abomination--but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.

We are a race prone to monsters, she thought, and when we produce one we worship it.

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

God’s love is unconditional love. Love despite our faults. Lucky for us, we’re bad.

When the hysteria subsides, this video is destined to be another relic that we will never truly understand. A new tragedy presents itself before we can make sense of the last. Why does this keep happening, and who keeps doing this to us? I wish I could strangle their collective necks and be done with it, so we could hail our utopia in peace. Maybe some advanced being will sift through this junk when we’re gone, and wonder how siblings could be so cruel to each other.