Nature of man Quote by Devdutt Pattanaik

“Humans are naturally scared and confused beings. They not only fear the unknown, as they live fearing themselves... ☥”

— Luis Marques

“...there’s seldom one event that makes a person a certain way, it’s the numerous bumps and bruises and stories of personal triumph in a…

— L.M. Adams

“We turn ourselves into beasts so that we may cope with being human.”

— Dr. Johnson

“Our passion for fear consumes us and gives birth to the imaginary. Once fear is unleashed, it feeds upon us and rips us apart…

— Nancy B. Brewer

“We fear the beast because we fear the beast within...”

— Gerald Hausman

“What fears you, that you are unable to see the kindness in a stranger's smile, to feel the tenderness in a lovers touch, and…

— Sonia Valencia Singh

“as our lives become less and less genuine, we require bigger and bigger thrills to scare us, for just a moment, into feeling human…

— Johnny Truant

“If fear and hatred made beasts of us, then it was our stories that made us human.”

— Joyce Chua

“that alertness for measuring and weighing event against eventuality, circumstance against human nature, his own fallible judgement and mortal clay against not only human…

— William Faulkner

“I cling to the beauty and strength of nature and all wild creatures with a passion born of certainty that only through them can…

— Virginia McKenna

“We are, perhaps uniquely among the earth’s creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable…

— Lewis Thomas

“We start by working with the monsters in our mind. Then we develop the wisdom and compassion to communicate sanely with the threats and…

— Pema Chödrön