Puny Human Quotes

#1. Puny human body, my ass!

Margaret Weis

#2. There are things of such darkness and horror - just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty - that they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception.

Stephen King

#3. I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'

J. Cole

#4. How small the cosmos (a kangaroo's pouch would hold it), how paltry and puny in comparison to human consciousness, to a single individual recollection, and its expression in words!

Vladimir Nabokov

#5. I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. I felt very puny as a human. I thought, 'Fuck that. I want to be a superhuman.

David Bowie

#6. Have you ever seen someone and thought to yourself, Whoa, he's hot! I'd like to screw his brains out. And then, you talk to the guy and realize someone already has?

Penny Reid

#7. I've never had a day job. I've been very fortunate.

Shane West

#8. The slime of all my yesterdays rots in the hollow of my skull.

Sylvia Plath

#9. Across our country, social enterprise partnerships between the public and private sectors are providing millions of Americans - young and old - a second chance.

George R. Roberts

#10. I own you, Erica. Your heart, the blood that beats through it when I hold you down this way. Your body, the way it moves for me, comes for me. It's all mine. Say it. Tell me I own you, baby.

Meredith Wild

#11. I do get a fair amount of scripts; I got 'Frozen River' kinda just that way. I have a hard time turning my back on anybody who says they have something for me.

Melissa Leo

#12. Yolandi, the central character in the book "All My Puny Sorrows" says that "the core of the argument for it [assisted suicide] is maximizing individual autonomy and minimizing human suffering" (p. 222).

Miriam Toews

#13. I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up.

Jim DeMint

#14. This chariot is built out of human dreams about the sun, kid. It's as old as Western Civilization. Every day, it drives across the sky from east to west, lighting up all those puny little mortal lives. The chariot is a manifestation of the sun's power, the way mortals perceive it.

Rick Riordan

#15. Never regret anything that once made you smile

Red

#16. Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.

Malorie Blackman