2,272 Quotes About Human-nature

...you look the truth in the face - not the truth that has fangs and fur but the hard truth about yourself, that you're just as dangerous as the beings the rest of the people fear but you can't afford to be as honest about it. You can't tell those people that you'll make deals with what they fear in order to keep them sage from the monsters who look just like them.

You sit in these halls with a crown upon your head, and yet you are less of a man than you have ever been.

Human is not a species - human is a promise - a promise to never stop growing - a promise to never stop learning from our mistakes - a promise to acknowledge our shortcomings and sharpen our strengths.

The only bearable thing about being human is that you can change, the second you feel like. Get it through your head that you changed, and cut yourself some slack before you fucking choke to death from all the apologies in your throat.

If you were destined to be a poet, then you won't brainstorm for lines that rhymes. If you were destined to be a celebrity, then you shouldn't start searching for fans. If you are truly a god, then let others worship you!

In times of stress and danger such as come about as the result of an epidemic, many tragic and cruel phases of human nature are brought out, as well as many brave and unselfish ones.

finding mistakes in others is a human nature that satisfies the alter ego

There was a kind of cold-hearted selfishness on both sides, which mutually attracted them; and they sympathized with each other in an insipid propriety of demeanour, and a general want of understanding.

If you could be a person who made no mistakes, had no failures and had no disappointments, you would not be a human, you would be a machine.