Human Experience Quotes

"Ennobling sorrow melts the heart to love" "We cannot selectively numb emotions; when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions" "Life is not a spectacle or feast; it is a predicament." "I’m afraid that sometimes you’ll play lonely games too" "I didn't have anything to offer anybody except my own confusion." "The wine of this fleeting world caused you and me to forget " "Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?" "Where one man hates and another loves, there is truth." "If we are to be entirely alive, it must be through feeling deeply." "There is only one type of story in the world-your story." "All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation" "Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it" "Life is without meaning. We bring meaning to it" "The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life." "To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving." "The heart frames the universe, rendering it intelligible" "The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain" "People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think." "It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story." "No one ever expects science to solve the problem of life completely."