Man Quotes

“حُكمك على الشخص يكون من أسئلته وليس أجوبته”
― فولتير

“To an eagle or to an owl or to a rabbit, man must seem a masterful and yet a forlorn animal; he has but two friends. In his almost universal unpopularity he points out, with pride, that these two are the dog and the horse. He believes, with an innocence peculiar to himself, that they are equally proud of this alleged confraternity. He says, 'Look at my two noble friends -- they are dumb, but they are loyal.' I have for years suspected that they are only tolerant.”
― Beryl Markham, West with the Night

“Were God to show grace to all of Adam's descendants, men would at once conclude that He was righteously compelled to take them to heaven as meet compensation for allowing the human race to fall into sin. But the great God in under no obligation to any of his creatures, least of all to those who are rebels against him.”
― Arthur W. Pink, The Attributes of God

“The devil is a very big angel, but a very little man.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“The most beautiful is to see the joy in your eyes.”
― Gregor Golob

“All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment…”
― Nietzsche Friedrich, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Everywhere man is confronted with fate, with the chance of achieving something through his own suffering.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“What's a drunken man like, fool?
Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would not matter. What is bad (this is my comment again) is that I dare say people will be thankful for the gold pins then.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“Man is the victim of an environment which refuses to understand his soul.”
― Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary Madness

“Man takes root at his feet, and at best he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.”
― John Burroughs

“Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart - one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgment, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat

“What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected.”
― Chief Seattle

“When man will return to nature, nature will return to him.”
― Grigoris Deoudis

“A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

“Ye may kill for yourselves, and your mates, and your cubs as they need, and ye can;
But kill not for pleasure of killing, and seven times never kill Man!”
― Rudyard Kipling

“I beg your pardon; I am drunk without a drink. English wine & words are vulnerable to every man.”
― Santosh Kalwar

“A man typically lights a scene too much, because it makes no matter what you show, a man always wants to see more. A woman understands darkness and shadows”
― Richard Melo, Happy Talk

“Men are not gentle creatures who want to be loved, and who at the most can defend themselves if they are attacked; they are, on the contrary, creatures among whose instinctual endowments is to be reckoned a powerful share of aggressiveness. As a result, their neighbor is for them not only a potential helper or sexual object, but also someone who tempts them to satisfy their aggressiveness on him, to exploit his capacity for work without compensation, to use him sexually without his consent, to seize his possessions, to humiliate him, to cause him pain, to torture and to kill him. Homo homini lupus [Man is a wolf to man]. Who, in the face of all his experience of life and of history, will have the courage to dispute this assertion?”
― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

“But I am a just man, even to my enemy—and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

“​"But you can thank God the Lord for His inconceivable goodness, which can be recognized daily and hourly throughout your entire existence, if only you honestly try! Your whole life shall therefore become a thanksgiving!”
― Abd-Ru-Shin

“Striving to be good is the ultimate struggle of every man. Being bad is easy, but being good requires sincere commitment, discipline and strength. We have to work hard every day just to remain good.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“A pierde tot ce se poate pierde"

Bărbatul este un animal indirect,
Gingaş sufletul lui
de neînţeles este.
Umbra unei frunze o ţine în braţe,
frunza nu, frunza nu.
Fuga unui iepure o ţine pe câmp,
iepurele nu, iepurele nu
Foame îi e de ce n-au mâncat alţii, -
frig îi e
tot timpul de alte stele
Animal indirect, lumină pentru orbi, -
gingaşului se vădeşte,
prin băltoaca de sânge
Nu naşte ci visează, ­-
nu doarme ci ţine în mână arma!

Neputând să piardă nimic
el pierde totul!
moare numai omorând.
Inventează puterea din absenţă.

Lumină în sine însuşi.
Ochi scobiţi cu degetul şi scurşi obraji,
ud al luminii, ­-
neputând să ţii un copil în pântec
tăierea gâtului în chip de sabie
o ţii îngropată în pământul de război al nimănuia

Ce poţi să pierzi tu, -
născut pentru pierdere totul îţi este destinat pierderii
Animal indirect
sufletul tău gingaş nimănuia
de trebuinţă este

Bagă mâna în pământ şi scoate
sabia iar nu sămânţa!
în singurătatea lui A
nu-l îndrăzni pe 1

Animal indirect
lasă-te sus.”
― Nichita Stănescu

“The other day I chanced to meet
An angry man upon the street —
A man of wrath, a man of war,
A man who truculently bore
Over his shoulder, like a lance,
A banner labeled “Tolerance.”
― Phyllis McGinley

“I felt a hole boring through my heart. It was carving a scar that would never heal. I was a man. A man doesn't cry at lost love. Never. Instead, he turns hard. From now on, I would live up to my name"...Rattler.”
― Barry Andrew Chambers

“Diesel better have a big dick, that's all she was saying.”
― Erin McCarthy, Slow Ride

“The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature

“It takes a real secure man to understand it's okay to cry and an even wiser one to teach that it's okay.”
― Carlos Wallace

“We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.”
― Samuel Butler

“As he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature.”
― John Shelby Spong