Pete Townshend Quotes

One has followed the other in an endless circle, for it is certain that as man's insight increases so he finds both wretchedness and greatness within himself. In a word man knows he is wretched. Thus he is wretched because he is so, but he is truly great because he knows it.

Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.

I'm trying to get at something a little transcendent between humans. But at the same time, there's all that baggage: What's beautiful about humans is what's balanced by what's kind of ugly and petty and depressing.

I guess what I always found funny was the human condition.

She is Living and I'm Dead, but I'd like to believe we're both human. Call me an idealist.

Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.

The essence of man is imperfection.

He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and every day its night. Even the sun shows spots, and the skies are darkened with clouds; and faults of some kind nestle in every bosom.

Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?

Alas! Man's vices, horrible as they are supposed to be, contain the positive proof of his taste for the infinite.

You give me the feeling that the universe Was made by something more than human For something less than human. But I identify myself, as always, With something that there's something wrong with, With something human.

Human, all too human.

Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.

In reality, infinity is merely the distance to the heart of a stranger. Eternity is the moment of cognition.

A writer who writes, ''I am alone''... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a reader and by using methods that prevent the individual from being alone. The word alone is just as general as the word bread. To pronounce it is to summon to oneself the presence of everything the word excludes.

Men are but men; we did not make ourselves.

Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the boat is perpetually sinking.

I am human, all too bloody human.

The Ludolphian number is fixed in eternity— not a digit out of place, all characters in their proper order, an endless sentence written to the end of the world by the division of the circle’s diameter into its circumference.

There was never a time when the world began, because it goes round and round like a circle, and there is no place on a circle where it begins. Look at my watch, which tells the time; it goes round, and so the world repeats itself again and again.

Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.

Humanity's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.

What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and the only one who is searching for the Other.

to live means to lack something at every moment