Human nature Quote by Richard North Patterson

“Women and children knew deep in themselves that no misfortune was too great to bear if their men were whole.”

— John Steinbeck

“Let not the worst of men be found worse than they really are.”

— George Lawson

“When all things lasted so short a time and nothing mattered very much, it seemed pitiful that men, attaching an absurd importance to trivial…

— W. Somerset Maugham

He had a moment of clarity about how life should be lived: not as a child or as a woman. They were the two…

— Alice Sebold

“The tragic element in modern man, not ignore the meaning of his life, but it bothers him less and less. ”

— Vaclav Havel

“strongest to make men do very bad things before they are yet, individually, very bad men.”

— C.S. Lewis

“Men with power had the responsibility to know what was best, and they so rarely did.”

— Beck Sherman

“He was a complicated man, and an unhappy one. But he knew also that the world was full of simple miracles.”

— Helen Macdonald

“Men were complex enough to begin with. Give them a thousand years and they only got worse, like ever-growing labyrinths of smugness and bravado.…

— Sara C. Roethle

“He had seen it too many times for it to be a coincidence: men who struggled to get their lives together often went straight…

— Mark Dawson

“So he knew terrible things- even the most terrible things-couldn't stop the world from turning. Life went on. And he made a promise to…

— Matt Haig

“The measure of a man's character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.”

— Lee Martin