Biographies Quote by George Steiner

Humanity has been passing through a gray and desolate time of confusion.

— John Steinbeck

Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a…

— Anonymous

Everybody thinks of others as being excessively human, with all the frailties and crotchets appertaining to that curious condition. But each of us also…

— Christopher Morley

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

— Virginia Woolf

The human mind is scattered. We have become negligent about our distractions, inertia, confusion, doubt, fear, and anger.

— Rajmani Tigunait

If we are more affected by the ruin of a palace than by the conflagration of a cottage, our humanity must have formed a…

— Edward Gibbon

As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“We are, on earth, two distinct races. Those who have need of others, whom others amuse, engage soothe, whom solitude harasses, pains, stupefies, like…

— Guy de Maupassant

All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.

— Maxim Gorky

“Acknowledging other people’s basic humanity is a remarkably effective way of shooing away the swarm of self-referential thoughts that buzz like gnats around our…

— Dan Harris

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

... we will hope that future historians will explain the morbid symptoms of present-day society as the childhood ailments of an aspiring humanity, due…

— Albert Einstein