Choosing to forgo the small rewards of society now will lead to the monumental rewards of becoming a person of value later.
When your words enter the material world in the form of ink or on screen, you are immediately afforded the opportunity to judge their worth.
I have no interest in dying. But I have to. I have to care one day about things that don't matter to me.
It is chronic water shortage in the body that causes most diseases of the human body. Dr. Fereydoon Batmanghelidj
Human nature being what it was, the only time you could really be sure you weren’t being lied to was when you were talking to yourself.
I refuse to believe that gods want to make mortals unhappy and torment them. That's what humans do. And humans are very definitely not divine.
To be a poet, I realized, a true poet, was to become the Avatar of humanity incarnate; to accept the mantle of poet is to carry the cross of the Son of Man, to suffer the birth pangs of the Soul-Mother of Humanity.
Too many people out there tell us what we can and cannot do but…they don’t know who we are, what’s put in us.
Living as I do with human beings, the more that I observe them, the more I am forced to conclude that they are selfish.
It is painfully easy to define human beings. They are beings who, for no good reason at all, create their own unnecessary suffering.
Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfection, where some pain is indelible.
The sole agents, indeed, in the action of her novels are individual human beings. And the comedy is the outcome of their making fools of themselves and of one another.
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.
Are we Human? Or are we dancer? My sign is vital, My hands are cold, And I'm on my knees, begging for the answer, To are we Human? Or are we Dancer?
Growing up I often wondered how the world would be today if, since the beginning of human life, every person acted as I did.
Çoğu insan Kafka'nın ihtiyarına benzer. Umut ederler ama yüreklerinin sesini, itkisini dinleme ve ona göre davranma yetisinden yoksundurlar; bürokratlar onlara yeşil ışık yakmadığı sürece beklerler de beklerler.
And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love.
The purpose of art is to give the traveling human race an improved map that shows the way to itself. If art isn't for *that*, what is it for?
We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.
Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.
I believe that the ability to laugh at oneself is fundamental to the resiliency of the human spirit.
