Quote by Thomas Bernhard

“He was an abomination precisely because they saw his humanity, but degraded it and would not recognize it.”

— Jean M. Auel

“He hadn't yet had enough experience with humans to know that the thing they hold dearest to their hearts, the last thing they relinquish…

— Gregory Maguire

“[He] believed both love and hate to be irrelevant. To him, they were "impediments of the human condition," and, in his words again, "imagine…

— Max Brooks

“He still wanted to believe that people could survive their misfortunes. He believed that was all anyone had.”

— Alice Hoffman

“...inasmuch as every man takes the sufferings that fall to his share as the greatest.”

— Hermann Hesse

“The most baffling about the human psyche is that even after seeing the misery and suffering all around. He is convinced that these would…

— Gian Kumar

“Does mankind truly hate itself? How can one surmount such irreverence?”

— Brom

“He had discovered that there was not just one God but many, and some were more than cruel — they were insane, and that…

— Stephen King

“He who is concerned only with the purity of his own life ruins the great human relations.”

— Confucius

“That everything apart from death, everything he preached about, was nothing but a defence people had created against their fear of death. And yet…

— Jo Nesbø

“And now, all these years later, it seemed to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended.”

— Stephen King

“...Give your approval to all you cannot understand. Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed... ”

— Wendell Berry