#human-nature

"and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful."

"Humans are strange. … They value punishment because they think it means their actions are important—that they are important. … it's vanity."

"Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too."

"You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue."

"In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone."

"While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed the true and foul odor of my soul, love was born in her – for she does love me! Well, well! There is nothing real, then, except evil."

"I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago."

"He lives down in a ribcage in the dry leaves of a heart."

"Though the ancient poet in Plutarch tells us we must not trouble the gods with our affairs because they take no heed of our angers and disputes, we can never enough decry the disorderly sallies of our minds."

"Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change."

"No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high."

"This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls."

"I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them."

"I don't know why people are afraid of lust. Then I can imagine that they are very afraid of me, for I have a great lust for everything. A lust for life, a lust for how the summer-heated street feels beneath my feet, a lust for the touch of another's skin on my skin...a lust for everything. I even lust after cake. Yes, I am very lusty and very scary."

"Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue)."

"Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations."

"The more one judges, the less one loves."

"I like living in my head because in there, everyone is kind and innocent. Once you start integrating yourself into the world, you realize that people are nasty, mean creatures. They're worse than zombies. People try to crush your soul and destroy your happiness, but zombies just want to have a little nibble of your brain."

"A sin is nothing more than regret. Not for doing it once, but doing it again when you know you’re going to regret it."

"The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy."