Quotes About Loss Of Humanity

#1. College football would be much more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students, and even more interesting if the trustees played. There would be a great increase in broken arms, legs, and necks, and simultaneously an appreciable diminution in the loss of humanity.

H.L. Mencken

#2. The catch was this: Power always involved loss of humanity.

Jodi Picoult

#3. More commonly suffering breaks people, crushes them, and is simply unilluminating. You see how gruesomely human beings are destroyed by pain, when they have the added torment of losing their humanity first, so that their death is a total defeat ...

Saul Bellow

#4. We hunger for connection but take pride in being distant.

Turcois Ominek

#5. I still remember the moment when my gaze fell upon the mutilated face of a young woman, her features slashed through with a bayonet. Soundlessly, and without fuss, some tender thing deep inside me broke. Something that, until then, I hadn't realised was there.

Han Kang

#6. It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object , than to attempt to make men mere machines and instruments of political benevolence. The world on the whole will gain by a liberty, without which virtue cannot exist.

Edmund Burke

#7. The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would have been the loss of those for whom he is sacrificing himself. But in his abnegation lies the secret of his grandeur.

Andre Gide

#8. The world has become jaded. Romance has died, some no longer believe in love, and because of this, they suffer.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#9. This, I suppose, is part of being human, learning from our losses how better to appreciate what is left in their wake.

Jon Chopan

#10. Fear gives people their humanity. Fear of loss.

Karina Halle

#11. We can lose money, But the loss of human life is loss forever.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

#13. A world without esoteric knowledge is a poorer place and we as a humanity pay the price for the loss of its principles.

Belsebuub

#14. College football is a game which would be much more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students, and even more interesting if the trustees played. There would be a great increase in broken arms, legs, and necks, and simultaneously an appreciable diminution in the loss to humanity.

H.L. Mencken

#15. Rarely is the pain of losing someone expressed with such directness, energy, and, yes, humor. The grief in Evan Kuhlman'sWolf Boyis palpable, and so is the flawed, honest humanity of his characters. Here is real loss and somehow, real catharsis.

Peter Orner

#16. Human hearts are made to bleed at the sight a precious item destroyed, irrespective of who owns the item.

Dauglas Dauglas

#17. Science and technology have been embarrassed by two world wars, many smaller ones, and the spread of weapons that could destroy humanity. As a result, there is some loss of confidence in the great achievements of technology.

Thomas Keating

#18. From the Balance sheet of humanity, to the Profit & Loss account of emotions, I am all in good books. I am a Chartered Accountant.

Vikrmn

#19. No war is ever a war without the loss of a life of a solider

PureDragonWolf

#20. Because most people have great difficulty recognizing the humanity of another person if they can't recognize that person's gender, the gender-changing person can evoke in others a primordial fear of monstrosity, or loss of humanness.

Susan Stryker

#21. A timeless energy encircles the world, drawing humanity into its grasp, eternally swirling, pulling souls together, tearing them apart in the eternal struggle of love, life and loss...

Virginia Alison

#22. May your P&L account of deeds for humanity be in profits; for you have to present the your Balance Sheet on the Judgment Day.

Vikrmn

#23. Mourn with those are sorrowful.
Be happy with those who are joyful.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity.

Salman Rushdie

#25. I'd never felt more human than I did when my mother lay in bed, dying. This was not the frailty of a man who is said to be "only human," subject to a weakness or a vulnerability. This was a wave of sadness and loss that made me understand that I was a man expanded by grief.

Don DeLillo

#26. At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, 'Do you want temporary economic gain or long-term environmental loss, which one do you prefer,' we invariably choose the money.

Ethan Hawke

#27. Fateful encounters with a cruel world reveal our character. No human is immune from heartbreaking loss. Regardless of our socioeconomic status, eventually everybody shall suffer a grievous personal loss, a body blow that inflicts pain of inexpressible magnitude.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#28. When we start rating each other's lives and afflictions, we lose a bit of our humanity, compassion and perspective.

Ariana Carruth

#29. Everyone feels loss and love and laughter. That's what connects humanity. It's why I love Shakespeare.

Stephanie Beatriz

#30. Friends disappear
or they are powerless.
This is what misfortune means
an acid test of friendship.
I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

Anne Carson

#31. The orgasm is humanity's driving force. Time freezes and there isn't a feeling of loss, a void, a little death, but a reminder that of all earthly activity, none is more perfect.

Chloe Thurlow