Another Human Quotes
228 quotes by 188 authors
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The primary urge that motivates and engenders writing...is the writer's desire to invent and tell a story, and to know himself. But the more I…
— David Grossman
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But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another…
— Haruki Murakami
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Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of thought,…
— Cynthia Heimel
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I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course…
— Carrie Fisher
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the calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powers, dreams beyond one’s own; to induce in…
— George Steiner
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To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.
— Irving Stone
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...being human always points, and is directed, to something, or someone, other than oneself—be it meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter. The…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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Why does anyone stay in an unhappy relationship? Because people do. They do it all the time. And the truth is, when you’re in it,…
— Sarah Dunn
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Man is capable of greatness, love, nobility, compassion. Yet never forget that his capacity for evil is infinite. It is a sad truth, boy, that…
— David Gemmell
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Tonight I saw myself in the dark window as the image of my father, whose life was spent like this, thinking of death, to the…
— Louise Glück
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My playing had called to another human being at last. Surely, she could be no other than my own true love. Slowly, I got to…
— Cameron Dokey
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I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be.
— Suzanne Collins
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Human love, human trust, are always perilous, because they break down. The greater the love, the greater the trust, and the greater the peril, the…
— D. H. Lawrence
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I don't think we have all the words in a single vocabulary to explain what we are or why we are. I don't think we…
— Alexandra Fuller
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No man treats a motorcar as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying…
— Bertrand Russell
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My mother told me that life isn't always about pleasing yourself and that sometimes you have to do things for the sole benefit of another…
— Chelsea Handler
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Never worry alone. When anxiety grabs my mind, it is self-perpetuating. Worrisome thoughts reproduce faster than rabbits, so one of the most powerful ways to…
— John Ortberg
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For the record, surgeries aren't pretty. there's a hideous sense of intimately inappropriate exposure to another human being, and it feel something like accidentally walking…
— Jim Butcher
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No human being can be more human than another human being. I liberate you from my ignorance.
— Maya Angelou
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I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being--neither white, black, brown, or red; and when you are dealing with humanity as a…
— Malcolm X
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