“For this will cure him that is sick, and rouse him that is in dumps; one that has loved, it will remember of it; one that has not, it will instruct. For there was never any yet that wholly could escape love, and never shall there be any, never so long as beauty shall be, never so long as eyes can see. But help me that God to write the passions of others; and while I write, keep me in my own right wits.”
Source: Daphnis and Chloe / The Love Romances of Parthenius and Other fragments
“What a shame to have been born a human being and to spend your whole life worrying. You should reach the point where you can be happy to have been born a human.”
Source: To You: Zen Sayings of Kodo Sawaki
“The day Science recognise Humanity in Totality - as in Energy & Mass - we would know with evidence that there is birth of Anti-Humanity simultaneously with Humanity.”
Source: The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!
“You must win over your Celestial & Genetic Weaknesses in order to Mature into A Better Human; else you are As Good As Not Lived.”
Source: The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!
“If I could never really be like other people, then at least I would be like myself and make the best of it.”
Source: My Left Foot
“Humans can't be fixed," says Ibrahim. "We're not lawnmowers.”
Source: The Bullet That Missed
“Fireflies can make light inside of their bodies—and we can make light outside of ours.
If other animals studies humans the way we study them, this would be our notable feature.”
Source: Night Magic: Adventures Among Glowworms, Moon Gardens, and Other Marvels of the Dark
“They’ve turned language into a weapon. Make people afraid of the truth and they’ll burn it themselves.”
Source: The Heir of Ash and Thunder
“To be a vampire meant a life that went on forever. To be human means covering that life, cherishing it's temporariness. There was value in such a thing, a certain bittersweet longing that perished with each passing day.”
Source: A Steeping of Blood
“The body is the subconscious made visible. To ignore its whispers is to mute the very core of human suffering.”
Source: Crossing the Forbidden Highway: The Untold Story of Orgone, Body Therapy, and Suppressed Emotion