Mankind Quote by David Grant Urban Download Open image ““The tragedy of man is the difference between what he can be, and what he is.”” — David Grant Urban ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mankind Philosophy
“The greatest tragedy that can befall a man is not death but the inability to do what should be done at the right time” — Anthony Copy Share Image
A tragedy means always a mans struggle with that which is stronger than man. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Man can recover from epic tragedy, he can live through immense hardship and endure the great injustices of life, but take away his hope… — David Alejandro Fearnhead Copy Share Image
“The tragedy in a man’s life is what dies inside of him while he lives.” — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“Of a sane man there is only one safe definition. He is the man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Man is more himself, more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing and grief superficial.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Man's tragedy is that when he can do something, in the end he will always do it — Jacques Attali Copy Share Image
“All who live are in despair.(?) And that is the sickness unto death.(?) It is that a man refuses to be what he is.(?)” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“The tragic element in modern man, not ignore the meaning of his life, but it bothers him less and less. ” — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“Two years, I thought. Two years living wrapped in vicious guilt, self-doubt, and rage. No truth to salve the wounds, only the steady application… — David Grant Urban Copy Share Image
“Books said nothing for a few minutes. Then, gazing out over the water, watching a sailboat heeled over, cutting across the bay, he asked,… — David Grant Urban Copy Share Image
“He pulled out a short-barreled pistol from the drawer and placed it on the desktop. It was not what he was looking for. The… — David Grant Urban Copy Share Image
“Civilization is diaphanous: a dazzling display, beautiful, a brilliant golden orb of order and geometric precision. But just touch it lightly and see toward… — David Grant Urban Copy Share Image
“We stared at each other, bound by common experience, but each looking at the other through the steady crosshairs of inherent distrust.” — David Grant Urban Copy Share Image
“Love may come more than once, but there is only one first love. The only time there is nothing to compare it to. Every… — David Grant Urban Copy Share Image
“What we have now is but a bare remnant, an age of vast information, but spread thin like a superficial crust passing as knowledge.… — David Grant Urban Copy Share Image
“Truth is an illusionary ideal, a structure with a foundation of opinion, garnished by selected facts, eroded over time and rebuilt new every generation.” — David Grant Urban Copy Share Image
“He looked at me and smiled. I was thinking he would fit in perfectly at any college campus across the country. Instead, he ran… — David Grant Urban Copy Share Image
“Unclaimed or abandoned bodies. There could be no stronger definition of loneliness.” — David Grant Urban Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
“If attempting to make the world a civilized one, makes you a bad woman in the eyes of the dumb patriarchal society, then, by… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind. — Horace Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
A South Korean inventor has finally created the robot that mankind has been waiting for. Scientists who have been worried about the robot apocalypse… — Mike Pesca Copy Share Image
My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little… — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
You should avoid hedging, at least that's what I think. You should be ashamed to die until you've made some contribution to mankind. — Vernon Johns Copy Share Image
