Quotes about Human

She had done the usual trick - been nice. She would never know him. He would never know her. Human relations were all like that, she thought, and the worst were between men and women. Inevitably these were extremely insincere.

He was afraid he did not understand beauty apart form human beings.

In all the books love is one of the great facts that mould human life. But it is a catastrophe: it happens suddenly and overwhelmingly, and there is little to be said about it.

"An observer of human nature, sir," said Mr. Pickwick.

Man is but mortal; and there is a point beyond which human courage cannot extend.

In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is -as the light called human life is- at its coming and going.

I labour under the same kind of astonishment to this day, having invariably observed that of all human weaknesses, the one to which our common nature is the least disposed to confess (I cannot imagine why) is the weakness of having gone to sleep in a coach.

In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is—as the light called human life is—at its coming and its going.

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Whether theologians acknowledge it or not, all theologies begin with experience... We are all particular human beings, finite creatures, and we create our understanding of God out of our experience. Hopefully, our own experience points to the universal, but it is never identical with it. For when we mistake our own talk about God with ultimate reality, we turn it into ideology.

Unfortunately, a human being is able to comprehend only that amount of evil which he is able to commit himself.

The Church of England holds very firmly, and continues to hold to the view, that marriage is a lifelong union of one man to one woman. At the same time, at the heart of our understanding of what it is to be human is the essential dignity of the human being.