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Quotes tagged “human affairs”

“She did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughter-House Five
Tagged: breakup, Relationships, What It Means To Be Human, Human Relationships, human affairs
“Somewhere
someone
thinks they love
someone else
exactly like
I
love you.
Somewhere
someone shakes
from the ripple
of a thousand butterflies
inside a
single stomach.
Somewhere
someone
is packing their
bags
to see the world
with someone
else.
Somewhere
someone
is reaching through
the most
terrifying few
feet of space
to hold the
hand
of someone
else.
Somewhere
someone
is watching
someone else’s
chest
rise and fall
with the
breath
of slumber.
Somewhere
someone
is pouring
ink like blood
onto pages
fighting
to say the truth
that has
no words.
Somewhere
someone
is waiting
patient
but exhausted
to just
be
with someone
else.
Somewhere
someone
is opening
their eyes
to a sunrise
in someplace
they have never
seen.
Somewhere
someone
is pulling out
the petals
twisting the
apple stem
picking up
the heads up penny
rubbing the
rabbits foot
knocking on
wood
throwing
coins into
fountains
hunting for
the only clover
with only 4 leaves
skipping over
the cracks
snapping the
wishbone
crossing their
fingers
blowing out
the candles
sending dandelion
seeds into the
air
ushering eyelashes
off their thumbs
finding the first
star
and waiting for
11:11 on
their clock
to spend their
wishes
on someone
else.
Somewhere
someone
is saying
goodbye
but somewhere
someone else
is saying
hello.
Somewhere
someone
is sharing their first
or their last
kiss
with their
or no longer their
someone
else.
Somewhere
someone
is wondering
if how they feel
is how the other
they
feels about them
and if both theys
could ever become
a they
together.
Somewhere
someone
is the decoder ring
to all of
the great mysteries
of life
for someone
else.
Somewhere
someone
is the treasure map.
Somewhere
someone
thinks they love
someone else
exactly like
I
love you.
Somewhere
someone
is wrong.”
— Tyler Knott Gregson, Somewhere, Someone
Tagged: People, humans, Human Connection, human affairs, Human Relationships, Relationships, Human Experience, Living, Experience, Life
“After all, how did you say goodbye to someone who wasn’t exactly gone?”
— Richelle Mead, Shadow Kiss
Tagged: Farewells, Goodbyes, Relationships, People, human affairs, Feelings
“I certainly do care for you...less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing.”
— Gertrude Stein, Three Lives
Tagged: Caring about someone, caring, Feelings, Concerned, feelings towards someone, Love, human affairs, Relationships
“So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
Tagged: People Come and Go, People, Human Connection, human affairs, People Change, Moving Forward, Life, Moving On, Letting Go
“No one will ever know anyone. We just have to deal with each other.”
— Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction
Tagged: Relationships, human actions, human affairs, Knowing People, Dealing with Depression, Life
“Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.”
— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 1 1931-1934: Vol. 1(1931-1934), Volume 1
Tagged: human beings, human affairs, interactions, Relationships, Human Interaction, human contact
“Everybody’s born with some different thing at the core of their existence. And that thing, whatever it is, becomes like a heat source that runs each person from the inside. I have one too, of course. Like everybody else. But sometimes it gets out of hand. It swells or shrinks inside me, and it shakes me up. What I’d really like to do is find a way to communicate that feeling to another person. But I can’t seem to do it. They just don’t get it. Of course, the problem could be that I’m not explaining it very well, but I think it’s because they’re not listening very well. They pretend to be listening, but they’re not, really. So I get worked up sometimes, and I do some crazy things.”
— Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel
Tagged: human beings, human affairs, Human Behavior, human actions, confiding, Understanding, Communication, interpersonal understanding
“I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
— Albert Camus, The Stranger
Tagged: World, Human Existence, World Views, indifference of the world, Indifference, world and humanity, Reality, Uniqueness, human affairs, Acceptance

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