“It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.”

“Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”

Yasunari Kawabata (1899–1972) Japanese author, Nobel Prize winner

“Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming every resource, destroying everything they touch.”

Scott Westerfeld book Pretties

“Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”

Yasunari Kawabata (1899–1972) Japanese author, Nobel Prize winner

“Human beings are millions of things in one day.”

Nick Hornby book A Long Way Down

“The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day.”

Idries Shah (1924–1996) writer and Sufi teacher

“Therefore THE IDEA OF 'ARTISTIC WORK' MUST BE ABOLISHED AS A COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY CONCEPT OF WHAT IS CREATIVE and work must be accepted as one of the functions of the living human organism in the same way as the beating of the heart or the activity of the nerve centers, so that it will be afforded the same protection.”

El Lissitsky (1890–1941) Soviet artist, designer, photographer, teacher, typographer and architect

“Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other. Which is what I do every day. An apparently ineffectual operation, since I must begin all over again the next day.”

Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist

“The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.”

Franz Kafka book The Zürau Aphorisms