Khaled Hosseini Quotes

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.

People will do more to avoid pain than they will do to gain pleasure.

I'm curious about what makes people do things that they do, unless it's absolutely terrifying to me.

As fast as I can tell there are only two emotions that keep the world spinning year after year...One is fear. The other is desire.

It is my belief that we all have the need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us, yet the worst in us.

When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear.

I think the human mind is fascinating. I love figuring out why people are doing what they do.

We are human beings. We operate from wanting to be rewarded.

Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.

Crimes are more often committed out of fear than wickedness. People live frightened, desperate lives.

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire

I have always thought - and a lot of people won't agree with this - that we're incredibly driven by fear, basically. Aren't we? It's awful to be frightened. I think it's a very strong, very powerful thing, fear.

I've always been, like a lot of people, driven by fear. Always focusing on the fire on the rope, as opposed to what the rope is coming from.

Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.

Do you think that people will obey the truth because it is true, unless they love it? No, they will not. Truth is obeyed when it is loved.

People are motivated by fear, but they are not inspired by it. Everything that inspires us comes from love.

I truly have come to believe that there are only two states of being that generate our thoughts: LOVE or FEAR.

People only respond to fear.

There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.

I just love thinking about what makes people tick

Most good thinking has its origin in fear.

I was a psychology major. I think that definitely helps in general life; I enjoy trying to figure out why people are the way they are.

Why do I doubt her? Perhaps she is just very sensitive, and hypersensitive people are false when others doubt them; they waver. And one thinks them insincere. Yet I want to believe her. At the same time it does not seem so very important that she should love me. It is not her role. I am so filled with my love of her. And at the same time I feel that I am dying. Our love would be death. The embrace of imaginings.

Want of passion is, I think, a very striking characteristic of Americans, not unrelated to their predilection for violence. For very few people truly have a passionate desire to achieve, and violence serves as a kind of substitute.

I think people just love to win.