Tragedy is when I cut my finger.
Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
- Mel Brooks
In human intercourse the tragedy begins,
not when there is misunderstanding about words,
but when silence is not understood.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
- Albert Schweitzer
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child.
Things never get back to the way they were.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon,
but that we wait so long to begin it.
- Anonymous
The effort to understand the universe is one
of the very few things that lifts human life
a little above the level of farce,
and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
- Steven Weinberg
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression
and cruelty by the bad people
but the silence over that by the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal.
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
- Benjamin E. Mays
You have a choice about the perspective you take on life.
See tragedy, and the world is tragic -
see beauty, and the world is beautiful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle
than the courage of a final moment;
but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
- John F. Kennedy
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy
of this period of social transition
was not the strident clamor of the bad people,
but the appalling silence of the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The most difficult thing in the world
is to know how to do a thing
and to watch somebody else doing it wrong,
without comment.
- Theodore. H. White
The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
- Henry David Thoreau
I'm not used to feeling so human.
Is it always like this?
- Edward, from Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer
Two things are infinite:
the universe and human stupidity;
and I'm not sure about the universe.
- Albert Einstein
I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another
and I know there are people in the world
that do not love their fellow human beings
and I HATE people like that.
- Tom Lehrer
The end of the human race will be that
it will eventually die of civilization.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only two things are infinite,
the universe and human stupidity,
and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein
Human beings must have action;
and they will make it if they cannot find it.
- Albert Einstein
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
- Walter Bagehot
Science may have found a cure for most evils;
but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
Human beings are the only creatures on the planet
who tell time and think they have to earn a living.
- Buckminster Fuller
Morality is the theory that every human act
must be either right or wrong,
and that 99 % of them are wrong.
- H. L. Mencken
Human salvation lies in the hands
of the creatively maladjusted.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man's nature is not essentially evil.
Brute nature has been known to
yield to the influence of love.
You must never despair of human nature.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The natural cause of the human mind
is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
- Thomas Jefferson
The more laws and order are made prominent,
the more thieves and robbers there will be.
- Lao Tzu
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather 
Our honorable and worthy ancestors knew that the world was flat,
motionless, and the center of the universe.
They knew the human body could not withstand
the forces of traveling faster than 19 mph.
They knew that the way to salvation was
exorcising witches and slaying non-believers.
They knew that it was a mortal sin to marry
someone of a different skin color.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil,
no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads.
This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world.
The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The very essence of instinct is that
it's followed independently of reason.
- Charles Darwin
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy
between the genius and his human qualities
that one has to ask oneself whether
a little less talent might not have been better.
- Carl Jung
If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter
Being angry is as close as a human being
can come to experiencing hell on earth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body
treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- Peter Medawar
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive
and potentially orderly and constructive.
- Margaret Mead
If you were a warrior,
you would know that the worst thing
one can do is confront human beings directly.
- Carlos Castaneda
As human beings, our greatness lies
not so much in being able to remake the world -
as in being able to remake ourselves.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
The human spirit ranges across a truly amazing
diversity of experiences and emotions -
the highest peaks and the lowest valleys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mostly, it is human to dislike surprises -
often with great intensity.
Be open to new ways;
sometimes newness just knocks on our door;
welcome it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
- John Galsworthy
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect,
but of all human contemplations,
the most abhorrent is body without mind.
- Thomas Jefferson
NO ONE is really different;
each of us is actually a member of the human race.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain
To err is human, to forgive divine.
- Alexander Pope
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars,
or sailed to an uncharted land,
or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
- Helen Keller
To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake
is to be continually thrown out of the nest.
- Pema Chodron
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities...
because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
- Winston Churchill
Seriousness is a sickness; your sense of humor
makes you more human, more humble.
The sense of humor - according to me -
is one of the most essential parts of religiousness.
- Osho
What do you take for granted?
It is human nature to take everything for granted -
our companions, our homes,
our electricity, our TVs and computers.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The human voice can never reach the distance
that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure
to dance without cessation;
and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.
- Lewis Carroll
Each and every human being on Earth
has both the responsibility and the privilege
of viewing themselves as Divine beings
with the power to bring about peace.
- James Twyman
I do not believe in immortality of the individual,
and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern
with no superhuman authority behind it.
- Albert Einstein
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
Writers, alas, have to be fools in public,
while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
- Erica Jong
There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
- The Buddha
The human race has one really effective weapon,
and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience.
We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human.
I am a woman first of all.
- Anais Nin
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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