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“Naw, Jem. I think that there is just one kind of folks. Folks."

Jen turned and punched his pillow. WHen he settle back his face was cloudy. He was going in to one of his declines, and I grew wary. His brows came together; his mouth became a thin line. He was silent for a while.

That is what I thought, too," he said at last, "when I was your age. If there is just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go ut of their way to despise each other? Scout, I think I am beginning to understand something. I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley stayed shut up in the house all this time...it's because he wants to stay inside”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“I am the One, and I see all.
But the blind man in Apartment 1-A is blind in many ways, as are all human beings, even those with functioning eyes. They are blind to their folly, to their ignorance, to their history, to the future that they will make for themselves. A future born of self-loathing.”
― Dean Koontz, 77 Shadow Street

“Men were indeed more foolish and more cruel than the beasts of the jungle! How fortunate was he who lived in the peace and security of the great forest!”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

“Where would the end be? Will the idea—the definition—of perfection stay the same? No. Perfection is too fickle. It’s in our nature to never be satisfied. We always think we can do more.”
― J.D. Brewer, Vagabond

“We must be able to love other people or forever endure the stain of disgraceful loneliness. By recognizing and expressing empathy for other people, we come to accept our own fallibility.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“I didn't want to write a book that advocated for a less curious world. Prurient curiosity may not be great. But curiosity is. People's flaws need to be written about. The flaws of some people lead to horrors inflicted on others. And then there are the more human flaws that, when you shine a light onto them, de-demonize people who might otherwise be seen as ogres.”
― Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

“I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind- of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough), any wounds being inflicted of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“Just listening to you makes my back hurt. Why do you think that is?"
"Your body is trying to distract your brain from things it doesn't want to hear. That's the problem with machines built by chance. Once a design flaw has become entrenched, it's so difficult to correct it.”
― Bernard Beckett, Genesis

“Maybe that’s what’s immanent to humanity: they strive to know and when they do they still make nothing of it. They come to know and know, but refuse to learn and have to make the same mistakes all over again. Can you really blame them? They are only human, after all, and the world must end twice before they learn a lesson.”
― Sima B. Moussavian, Tomorrow death died out: What if the future were past?

“Of course, our parents get an extra dose of importance in our minds. When we’re little, they’re everything—the gods and goddesses that rule our worlds. It takes a lot of growing up, and a lot of disappointment, to accept that they’re just normal, bumbling, mistaken humans, like everybody else.”
― Katherine Center , Things You Save in a Fire

“The New World's purpose was to be The Old World's Eden - a place of dreams to wipe clean the mistakes and sins of the past and start again. This mirage bore the human flaws of its construction that we are still dealing with today.”
― Stewart Stafford

“There is a certain fascination about death. It is the engine of our world: nothing drives living things more, not even love. Since we had lost it - our most important drive, the most powerful engine - the fascination for it had grown into an obsession. Just as it happens to us with everything that seems unreachable. We want to grasp it, want to touch it, want to be close to it, want to own it.”
― Sima B. Moussavian, Tomorrow death died out: What if the future were past?

“Where men see flaws, grace sees perfection.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson , Night of a Thousand Thoughts