Human nature Quote by Donna Tartt

“People die, sure,” my mother was saying. “But it’s so heartbreaking and unnecessary how we lose things. From pure carelessness. Fires, wars. The Parthenon,…

— Donna Tartt

“There are two most important things in the world - being in danger, and being saved.”

— Ava Dellaira

“The things that we have done together and the awful splits that have broken us into war survivals in the past stay like a…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Why did we have to do terrible things to get what we needed? When all of this bloodshed and heartache and resentment could have…

— Kailey Bright

“So it is not one whit mysterious that we poison the water and air and topsoil, and construct ever more cunning doomsday devices, both…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I found myself wondering at the impermanence of things. One day, I thought, people will have forgotten any of this happened. This war, these…

— Kate Morton

“War is catastrophe. It breaks families in irretrievable pieces. But those who are gone are not necessarily lost.”

— Ruta Sepetys

“We signed on the dotted line for things we didn't know we cared about. We ate the things we shouldn't, spent money when we…

— Tahereh Mafi

“What was the use trying to make safe and sure our little life? Sooner or later the great wave must come and sweep all…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“Our civilization is doomed to a short life: its component parts are too heterogeneous. I personally am content to see everything in the process…

— Paul Bowles

“Great things seem complex and cause the nations to rush towards the minor things that seem easy to reach, hence, they perish. And again…

— Blaise Tshibwabwa

“The world destroys itself and we rebuild it. The destroying is as important as the rebuilding. There can be as much joy in the…

— Jade Chang