Human condition Quote by hf saint

“I wiped off my fingers, but it wasn't the mold or maggots making my stomach revolt... No, it was the knowledge that all around…

— Margaret Rogerson

“Maybe the natural world wasn't so jaw-droppingly horrible, appaling, nasty, vile. Sometimes nature could be quite sweet, really, as delicate as a confused and…

— Scott Westerfeld

“And strange it is That nature must compel us to lament Our most persisted deeds.”

— William Shakespeare

“For a while, it was as poisonous and wrenching as it had been since the day it happened, as intolerable: a crime against nature.…

— Ariel Levy

“It was like a sickness. It was like the uncontrollable urge to eat dirt.”

— Cynthia Lowen

“Once upon a time, we ate to sustain ourselves. Now food itself is toxic.”

— Mark Schatzker

“Was this what the human reproductive urge was like, a pointless and powerful desire to replicate wonderful, irreplaceable me, even when the me in…

— Jeff Lindsay

“I didn't know what to do with this new reality, the horror of my conception. I wanted to bury it in the backyard, far…

— Chevy Stevens

“I rested my forehead against the wall and closed my eyes. It wasn’t just my curiosity, or my fascination with anatomy, or how I…

— Megan Shepherd

“I began to feel that nature itself was nurturing me, reminding me that life still offered beauty and calm, and that I was also…

— Elizabeth Berrien

“I felt expendable, throw-away, swallowed by a big biological project that I didn't initiate or choose, that produced me but would also chew me…

— Lionel Shriver

“This was not me. I was spilling my guts, as some people called it; divulging. It was word vomit and Saphira Elgin had her…

— Tarryn Fisher