Human Experience Quotes

"I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy. Second, there are no tragic answers, only silent ones." "The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death. What’s that, a bonus?" "Touch has a memory" "Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence" "Memory's truth is to desire" "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"