Best Human Nature Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.”

“After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, "Oh! Life is so hard!" and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.”

“Some people want you to grow — but only with them.”

“What are humans?’ Quillo asked. Lonī gave it some thought. He had not figured humans out fully, despite his years on earth. ‘The humans I have seen? Well, those are two-legged, feeble animals. They eat even if they are not hungry, and take up more space than they need. Not very friendly. We don’t mingle.”

“I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won't make that mistake again.”

“I believed my love would be reciprocated because it was pure. But it wasn’t. Reaction to every action? It doesn’t work that way with a human heart. Human mind resembles the quantum world. Always uncertain. Beyond any explanation.”

“Only an arrogant man can sense arrogance in others.”

“Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy.”

“I have only to contemplate myself; man comes from nothing, passes through time, and disappears forever in the bosom of God. He is seen but for a moment wandering on the verge of two abysses, and then is lost.”

“This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.”

“Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.”

“In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.”

“You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.”

“After 49 years of marriage, isn’t it amazing when you can look at your partner sound asleep next to you and still believe they have potential.”

“Bizim hepimizin içinde zübüklük olmasa, bizler de birer zübük olmasak, aramızdan böyle zübükler büyüyemezdi. Hepimizde birer parça olan zübüklük birleşip işte başımıza böyle zübükler çıkıyor. Oysa zübüklük bizde, bizim içimizde. Onları biz, kendi zübüklüğümüzden yaratıyoruz. Sonra, kendi zübüklüklerimizin bir tek Zübük’de birleştiğini görünce ona kızıyoruz.”

“If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism — at least in the sense of this work — is the secret of religion itself; that religion itself, not indeed on the surface, but fundamentally, not in intention or according to its own supposition, but in its heart, in its essence, believes in nothing else than the truth and divinity of human nature.”

“We are animals and as animals we kill to survive. Unfortunately some of us are monsters and kill just because they can.”

“Just because somebody smiles when he hands me a bag of shit, that doesn't mean I have to take it. I don't give a damn how friendly he is. It's what he does that matters.”

“The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition”

“Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime—if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more—was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside.”

“You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.”

“People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.”

“Beyond the mind lies true gratification — music, love, freedom, playfulness. The mind cannot grasp them; it simply dissolves and lets you enjoy.”

“The stupidity is impressing others with your physical body and expecting love for your soul.”

“The compulsion to do something for fun or pleasure is a bondage. Even wealth becomes a bondage when you think that having it means you must use it to seek pleasure and gratification.”

“The cave of the mouth is where men's spirits shelter.”

“In those days the world was not a garden and the people were not idle as they are now. Then on the face of the world there was real wilderness, empty of humanity, and the wilderness that humanity created, the wilderness that it packed with itself and which it called City. People toiled and people idled and the toilers worked for themselves and yet not for themselves and the idle did no work or little work and what they did, did only for themselves; money was all-powerful then and people said they made it work for them but money cannot work, only people and machines can work.”

“The oldest sin is certainty. The second oldest is enforcing it.”

“Nothing is as fragile as a system built on obedience. One frightened whisper can topple it.”

“Man, this creature so 'noble in faculty,' moves step by step in a pilgrimage that is destined to bring him only back again to the inanimate state of the stone. From dust we are, and to dust we ultimately return.”