Orson Scott Card Quotes

What do you get out of hating people, out of having this bitterness in your heart always?

Sooner or later, fate puts us together with all the people, one by one, who show us what we could, and shouldn’t, let ourselves become. Sooner or later we meet the drunkard, the waster, the betrayer, the ruthless mind, and the hate-filled heart. But fate loads the dice, of course, because we usually find ourselves loving or pitying almost all of those people. And it’s impossible to despise someone you honestly pity, and to shun someone you truly love.

When we talk about having a life of significance and meaning, it's not about fame or money or resources. It's about people and lives and hearts. That's my biggest passion in life.

I'm interested in the human more than I'm interested in building suspense.

I remember playing John Wayne Gacy, serial killer, very sick, neurotic, screwed-up guy. You know what? There's a part of me there, too, and you explore that.

It's important to determine not just the quality of your mind but the fullness of your heart.

I am sorry that as leader of the community, San Antonio and my name go together. But I guess human beings just aren't made of plastic and wiring and metal. They are made of flesh and blood and feelings.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

We will always need to be reminded that we are human. Art gives us that.

Give people not only your care, but also your heart.

I hope you will be yourself, human, even a little sentimental, possessed of a sense of humor and a sense of humility. . . . There are arrogant people in this world and, what is worse, arrogant judges.

No one is born with hate in their heart.

We are not made for law, we are made for love.

It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women than of men.

Before you judge me , try hard to love me , look within your heart Then ask , - have you seen my childhood ?

People will not lend you a hand until you first touch their hearts.

His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of man, as in rock, there may be channels hollowed by the dropping of water, and these can never be destroyed.

Let us then try what Love will do: For if Men do once see we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us.

Love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature.

people are not good to each other. perhaps if they were our deaths would not be so sad.

Today, imagine all the love flowing from your heart to all the people who need your love.

I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.

Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is in this world.

There is something human about the way people react to and identify with suffering. There's a lot more empathy in the world than we perhaps realize.