2,272 Quotes About Human-nature

It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.

He lives down in a ribcage in the dry leaves of a heart.

If you are HUMAN, then the limit of what you can do, what you learn, what you can experience HAS NOT YET BEEN REACHED.

What manner of people they were only books and other people could tell... and the tale was a long and gory one dating from the dim, conjectural dawn of history. But being human they were as apt to change as mother nature to remain constant.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something--something else, something more, whether it be true love or a glimpse just beyond the horizon. It was the promise of happiness, not the attainment of it, that had driven the entire engine, the folly and glory of who we are.

Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the suffering in theworld. It’s like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens.

Forgiving ourselves and learning from our inevitable mistakes transforms failure from a stumbling block into a stepping stone.

We can always be humanMeeting each day a wise new manBut the Animal Kingdom to which we belongAnimals we are; this truth can’t be wrong.