Joe Abercrombie Quotes

There's really no "bad" people; there's just humans who are doing the best they can to figure life out. It's hard! We can all relate to that.

You've got to let people be just, you know, people. Everyone does bad things sometimes, for all sorts of reasons. You've got to at least understand.

I always feel that life can teach you how to act. I'm always looking at life through other people's eyes. By feeling empathy. And I do feel that I am constantly learning.

I think, to me, I was always taught you never approach any character as a villain. Every human being on earth really believes that they're doing the best thing. We all have our rationalizations.

To me, acting used to be just, 'Get my face out there, get girls, make a little bit of money, make my mom proud.' It was just like sports. But there were moments in 'Moonlight' that I really felt like I had to know why he is the way he is. Or just people in general - why this person walks around with a frown on their face instead of a smile.

I love to learn about people.

Today, rather than looking for the worst in people, I encourage you to look for what's best within them.

The more that we self-analyze ourselves, the nicer we are to people and to ourselves, and the more we understand each other.

I've become more empathetic, and my capacity to understand and be patient - to give people a break - has enlarged over the years.

Reading is the best return on investment. You have to live your entire life in order to know one life. But with reading you can know 1000s of people's lives for almost no cost. What a great return!

No. But I understand her. Life makes people what they are.

You don't spend most of your life in other people's heads without losing every prejudice you ever had.

I don't believe in good people and bad people. I believe in the better parts of people.

Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.

I don't really care if people like a character ornot; I think in life we don't always like everybody. But you haveto be able to understand them.

Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.

A student of life considers the world a classroom.

In life, we all learn from everyone.

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Nobody's really unsympathetic, I think. People do good and bad things. If a character's totally unsympathetic, they're not real and I'm not interested. Even the real monsters have to have a spark of something you can relate to.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.

My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding.

Watching children grow up, you learn a lot about life and about being a better person - you learn a lot about what's really important in the world and what isn't.

I was a little truth seeker as a child. I wanted more than anything to understand myself and also other people.