Peter S. Beagle Quotes

We all know about love, faith, sadness, despair, hope, hopelessness, longing, desire... those are things we all have inside of us, and that's what my songs are about... what it means to be a human being.

I'm totally human.

If you ain’t scared… you ain’t human.

I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.

Some of us are only going to show our emotions while we're actually vulnerable. But that's what makes us human.

Emotions are the key to many aspects of life. They are precisely the elements that make human beings human. I think the fact that emotions have been reduced and put off to the side in intellectual work, particularly in the 20th Century, is tragic.

A certain amount of anger doesn't make us less empathetic, less humane, less loving. It just makes us real.

I'm no expert. I have no psychic powers, and I sure don't possess any secret wisdom. I'm just Janet. I have strengths, weaknesses, fears, happiness, sadness. I experience joy and I experience pain. I'm highly emotional. I'm very vulnerable.

Principally, I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartedly love John, Peter, Thomas and so forth …

I really like investigating the things that make us human.

I'm a man of many emotions, so I'm a human being, and I think that's what people tend to forget sometimes.

Science may provide the most useful way to organize empirical, reproducible data, but its power to do so is predicated on its inability to grasp the most central aspects of human life: hope, fear, love, hate, beauty, envy, honor, weakness, striving, suffering, virtue.

The true artform is being a human being.

The worst of faces still is human.

Human beings can be awful, but they can also be tremendous.

Anything's possible in Human Nature ...Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy.

What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.

There's no victory-condition for being human.

Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human thing — by, for and about human beings. If you lose that focus, you obviate the source of the power and permanence of literature.

Without emotion, what's the point of being human?

No human is completely fearless.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

Innately, there are qualities in human beings that are always repetitive. There are things like love and hate and jealousy that are just going to be there forever.