Human Nature Quotes

The Fates have given mortals hearts that can endure.

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

"There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person."
"Not till the reserve ceases towards one's self; and then the attraction may be the greater."

If you can stand knowing that some people won't like you, you are free to be yourself.

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

Mad in pursuit and in possession so.

It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigor is in our immortal soul.

He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.

Funny thing about black and white - you mix it together and you get gray. And it doesn't matter how much white you try and put back in, you're never gonna get anything but gray.

It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique.

I am not a student of human nature. I am a professor of a far wider academy of which human nature is merely a part.

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.

Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow.

Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you’ll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want.

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

Every man is what he thinks he is (up to a certain point).