Human Limitations Quotes

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Madeleine L'Engle
“Do you think things always have an explanation?
"Yes. I believe that they do. But I think that with our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations. But you see, Meg, just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.”
Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

Philip Roth
“Sembrava non capire o, anche in un momento di stanchezza, non ammettere che avere dei limiti non era poi una cosa così vergognosa, e che lui stesso non era una casa di pietra di centosettant'anni, il cui peso gravasse su imperturbabili travi di quercia: che era, insomma, qualcosa di più transitorio e misterioso.”
Philip Roth, American Pastoral

“We have invented many things that have worked, such as cars, airplanes, televisions, toasters and the internet, but a lifestyle that works for people's benefit and well being has always eluded us.”
Chuck Burr, Culturequake: The Restoration Revolution

Seamus Heaney
“Banish the thought that praying can ever affect
The edicts of gods.”
Seamus Heaney, Aeneid Book VI

Louis Yako
“I lost all hope
Ever since I discovered
That one home can’t contain me
One life is not enough for me
And one death won’t do…

(July 1, 2015)”
Louis Yako, أنا زهرة برية [I am a Wildflower]