Human life Quote by Svetlana Alexievich Download Open image “Nothing, not even human life, is more precious to us than our myths about ourselves.” — Svetlana Alexievich ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Human life Life Nothing Precious Storytelling Us
Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
We tell myths over and over again, lest we forget who we are, lest we not understand that these tales take us through the… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
“We need myths that will help us to identify with all our fellow-beings, not simply with those who belong to our ethnic, national or… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Life becomes precious and more special to us when we look for the little everyday miracles and get excited about the privileges of simply… — Tim Hansel Copy Share Image
We have to make myths of our lives, the point being that if we do, then every grief or inexplicable seizure by weather, woe,… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Myths give us our sense of personal identity, answering the question, 'Who am I?' — Rollo May Copy Share Image
We consider that the lives of all beings are just as precious as our own, and through this we develop a sense of concern… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I learnt too late that what is most important to us is always most precious at the moment it occurs, and it is precious… — Luke Davies Copy Share Image
The most precious thing we have is life. Yet it has absolutely no trade-in value. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
In the post-Soviet era, instead of freedom, various stripes of autocratic-totalitarianism have flourished: Russian, Belarusian, Kazakh... We are finding our way out from under… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
“How can we preserve our planet on which little girls are supposed to sleep in their beds, and not lie dead on the road… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
I write my books at moments of shock. I meet people in extremis and their stories are highly emotionally charged. — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
Women tell things in more interesting ways. They live with more feeling. They observe themselves and their lives. Men are more impressed with action.… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
Many times, I have been shocked and frightened by human beings. I have experienced delight and revulsion. I have sometimes wanted to forget what… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
No book about Soviet sacrifice was as strong as the women's stories I heard as a child. — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
I see the world as voices, as colors, as it were. From book to book, I change, the subjects change, but the narrative thread… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
We thought we'd leave communism behind, and everything would turn out fine. But it turns out you can't leave this and become free, because… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
A man without a memory is only capable of doing evil, nothing else but evil. — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Conception is the beginning of human life. From the time that an ovum is fertilized a new life begins that is neither that of… — Declaration on Procured Abortion Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith 1974 Copy Share Image
To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I free slaves because I believe we are all created equal. I just can't think of anything that has a higher purpose than putting… — Virginia Williams Copy Share Image
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
There seems to be a kind of order in the universe…in the movement of the stars and the turning of the Earth and the… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
“Whenever I think about ancient cultures nostalgia seizes me. Perhaps this is nothing but envy of the sweet slowness of the history of that… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
To all conservative women out there: If you are so sure the embryo needed for stem cell research are precious human life that can't… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image