Human Experience Quotes

"A world without stories would be a world without love" "The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over." "Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either " "To survive, you must tell stories" "The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is" "I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks." "It will always be there—the need to connect, the need to understand, the need to deal with unbearable pain through a form of transcendence." "Love is at once an affirmation and a transcendence of who you are." "To love is to have experienced the profound mutuality of others." "I guess the truth is that people are good at heart until something breaks them and then they aren’t" "Nothing is funnier than unhappiness." "The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops." "He that loves no woman lives an incomplete life" "Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life." "Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle." "In the end, I am reduced by my choices whether bad or good." "Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and since this spirit knows itself only through the senses it is to these that it turns whenever it has to test its own self-knowledge." "You make music to move people " "Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex" "The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories"