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Humans Quotes by Marilynne Robinson
- I can’t believe we will forget our sorrows altogether. That would mean forgetting that we had lived, humanly speaking. Sorrow seems to me to be…
- The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art.
- I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another.
- Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it. But…
- The moon looks wonderful in this warm evening light, just as a candle flame looks beautiful in the light of morning. Light within light...It seems…
- I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I want to feel…
- That odd capacity for destitution, as if by nature we ought to have so much more than nature gives us. As if we are shockingly…
- To think that only faultless people are worthwhile seems like an incredible exclusion of almost everything of deep value in the human saga. Sometimes I…
- Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you if they want, but you…
- I experience religious dread whenever I find myself thinking that I know the limits of God’s grace, since I am utterly certain it exceeds any…
More Humans Quotes
- 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