Being human Quote by A.A. Attanasio Download Open image “Being human is the most terrible loneliness in the universe.” — A.A. Attanasio ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Being human Humans Loneliness Terrible Universe
Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in the universe, except that everyone else is still here. — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
Loneliness is part of being human. It reminds us that we are not complete in ourselves. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself. — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. — White Oleander Copy Share Image
At some point just about all of us experience loneliness. In a sense, it is what it means to be a sentient animal, to… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share Image
When humans find themselves surrounded by nothing but objects, the response is always one of loneliness. — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Loneliness is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
of all the deprivations which afflict humankind, none is more dreadful than loneliness. A corrosive, it eats the heart out. People were meant to… — Zelda Popkin Copy Share Image
“…not a fort at all, but a giant amulet, a city made from the magic in our hearts and the land itself.” — A.A. Attanasio Copy Share Image
“360 degrees of the circle can be divided evenly by all integers from 1 through 10 except 7; thus, 7 was considered by pre-talismanic… — A.A. Attanasio Copy Share Image
“The fact of that devotion is nothing less than sacrifice. The only good of which mortals are capable of love. To even begin to do good, one must be willing to go beyond oneself. All things made by man perish. All words scatter into the emptiness that is the future. Only love endures. Love for what is. Not for what… — A.A. Attanasio Copy Share
I dream of a true husband—a good man, not a brute, nor a champion of men on the battlefield; I dream but of a… — A.A. Attanasio Copy Share Image
I dream of a true husband—a good man, not a brute, nor a champion of men on the battlefield; I dream but of a… — A.A. Attanasio Copy Share Image
“The surgeon tells me that you're a sorcerer," Pym said. "Is that so?" Jaki looked to the captain with the glare of the masts… — A.A. Attanasio Copy Share Image
The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of economic imperialism. Here one is reminded of a somewhat modified expression of Proudhon’s: whoever invokes humanity wants to cheat. To confiscate the word humanity, to invoke and monopolize such a term probably has certain incalculable effects,… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share
We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten our former states, except in early spring when we slightly recall being green again. — Rumi Copy Share
“There are no greater or truer lords, gods, fathers, sons or holy spirits, than the humans. Humans are the highest beings on earth.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
We’re built to deal with death, disease, failure, struggle, heartbreak, problems. It’s what separates us from the animals and why we envy and love… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
“There are countless reasons to be jealous. But that doesn’t mean you have to succumb to them.” — Beth Revis Copy Share Image
“I honour the clarity of the present moment, and the stillness at the centre of being (mine & others), even in the midst of… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically short of… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human being takes… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Heartbreak is our indication of sincerity: in a love relationship, in a work, in trying to learn a musical instrument, in the attempt to shape a better more generous self. Heartbreak is the beautifully helpless side of love and affection and is just as much an essence and emblem of care as the spiritual athlete's quick but abstract ability to… — David Whyte Copy Share
The Gnostics believed that exile was the essential condition of man. Do you agree? I do. The artist and the addict both wrestle with this experience of exile. They share an acute, even excruciating sensitivity to the state of separation and isolation, and both actively seek a way to overcome it, to transcend it, or at least to make the… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share
“Either way, you were connected. By your desires. By your defiance. By the simple, complicated fact of who you were.” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
![“360 degrees of the circle can be divided evenly by all integers from 1 through 10 except 7; thus, 7 was considered by pre-talismanic witches and sages to “break out of the circle," because breaking the circle by 7 produces an irrational number, whose nonrepeating decimal sequence runs to infinity.]” quote by A.A. Attanasio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4cb/a-a-attanasio-30107_mathematics_360-degrees-of-the-circle-can-be-divided_356058.jpg)
