Julie Plec Quotes

The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.

One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.

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.

The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both.

Real humanity presents a mixture of all that is most sublime and beautiful with all that is vilest and most monstrous in the world.

One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.

The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful.

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

We both can be the most beautiful and benevolent creatures on the planet, but then there's another side that can be as harsh and as ugly as the darkest thing you could imagine seeing.

I'm not too selfish or unselfish.

Humanity, perhaps, that quality of benevolence that humans have, without irony, named after themselves.

I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.

The world is awful but also the world is beautiful. Human beings are awful, but ultimately human beings are tremendous.

People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange.

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.

You can't look in the face of adoration and be cruel.

Art has a way of confronting us, of reminding us, of engaging us, in what it means to be human, and what it means to be human is to be flawed, is to be contradictory, is to be often weak, and yet despite all of these what we would consider drawbacks, that we're also quite beautiful. Spin is the opposite.

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven.