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Human Quotes by Haruki Murakami
- I'm not human. I'm a piece of machinery. I don't need to feel a thing. Just forge on ahead.
- I think memory is the most important asset of human beings. It's a kind of fuel; it burns and it warms you. My memory is…
- What do you think? I'm not a starfish or a pepper tree. I'm a living, breathing human being. Of course I've been in love.
- People have their own reasons for dying. It might look simple, but it never is. It's just like a rock. What's above ground is only…
- The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you…
- Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking…
- 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…
- Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We can invest enormous time and energy in…
- It's a dark, cool, quiet place. A basement in your soul. And that place can sometimes be dangerous to the human mind. I can open…
- Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?
- I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.
- One of these days they'll be making a film where the whole human race gets wiped out in a nuclear war, but everything works out…
- There are some things about myself I can’t explain to anyone. There are some things I don’t understand at all. I can’t tell what I…
- Results aside, the ability to have complete faith in another human being is one of the finest qualities a person can possess.
- The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and music…
- I am a flawed human being - a far more flawed human being than you realize.
- All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world.
- I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.
- Human beings are ultimately nothing but carriers-passageways- for genes. They ride us into the ground like racehorses from generation to generation. Genes don't think about…
- I find myself thinking about my ongoing existence as a human being and the path that lies ahead of me. Though of course these thoughts…
- People with dark souls have nothing but dark dreams. People with really dark souls do nothing but dream.
- Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left?
- How many times have you said, 'This is it. I've finally found my one true love'? And how many times has the reality turned out…
- Was it Aristotle who said the human soul is composed of reason, will, and desire?” “No, that was Plato. Aristotle and Plato were as different…
- Human love is a fragile creation, and sometimes the smallest thing - the wrong choice of words or a single clumsy gesture - can make…
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- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong