Edward Albee Quotes

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

He can kill anything for need but he could not even hurt a feeling for pleasure.

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

There are people whose feelings and well-being are within our influence. We can never escape this fact.

Ultimately, my character is defined by the quality of my sensitivity to other people. I exist in equilibrium. I am here to the degree I am there.

May we help more than we hurt, may we seek to understand more than be understood and may we love more than we judge.

Savor kindness because cruelty is always possible later.

So the smart brain must be balanced with a warm heart, a good heart -a sense of responsibility, of concern for the well-being of others.

Kindness effects more than severity.

It’s much easier to be cruel than one might think.

We will never recognize the true value of our own lives until we affirm the value in the life of others.

The basis of all good human behavior is kindness.

Humans are not really very humane.

What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.

Nature is cruel but we don't have to be

Kindness. The most unkind thing of all.

Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild.

A good thing can't be cruel.

Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.

Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.

Remember that no matter how selfish, how cruel, how unfeeling you have been today, every time you take a breath, you make a flower happy.

If I am only happy for myself, many fewer chances for happiness. If I am happy when good things happen to other people, billions more chances to be happy!

If you can be kind to people, you will be a genius in this world.

Dumbledore would have been happier than anybody to think that there was a little more love in the world.

No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.