92 Quotes About People

In a world defined by connections and relationships, the words we share about one another often hold profound significance. Quotes about people serve as windows into the human experience, reflecting our diverse emotions, perspectives, and truths. Whether you're seeking inspiration, a little wisdom, or merely a reminder of our shared humanity, this curated collection of the top 92 quotes about people will resonate with your heart and mind. Join us as we explore these poignant expressions that capture the essence of who we are.

1. “You can never really know someone completely. That’s why it’s the most terrifying thing in the world, really—taking someone on faith, hoping they’ll take you on faith too. It’s such a precarious balance, It’s a wonder we do it at all. And yet..” - Libba Bray

2. “Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.” - Dale Carnegie

3. “We're actors — we're the opposite of people!” - Tom Stoppard

4. “I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.” - Stephen Sondheim

5. “People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.” - Rick Riordan

6. “When we're connected to others, we become better people.” - Randy Pausch

7. “Quanto mais gosto da humanidade em geral, menos aprecio as pessoas em particular, como indivíduos.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky

8. “I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.” - Fannie Flagg

9. “Enemies are people who's story you haven't heard, or who's face you haven't seen.” - Irene Butter

10. “Neither sugar nor salt tastes particularly good by itself. Each is at its best when used to season other things. Love is the same way. Use it to "season" people.” - Vera Nazarian

11. “Embedded in the larger story of redemption is a principle we must not miss: God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things in the lives of others.” - Paul David Tripp

12. “People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination.” - Paul David Tripp

13. “Men and women are not limited by the place of their birth, not by color of their skin, but by the size of their hope.” - John Johnson

14. “Today wouldn't have happened if histories weren't falsified.” - Toba Beta

15. “I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.” - Oscar Wilde

16. “Not too long ago thousands spent their lives as recluses to find spiritual vision in the solitude of nature. Modern man need not become a hermit to achieve this goal, for it is neither ecstasy nor world-estranged mysticism his era demands, but a balance between quantitative and qualitative reality. Modern man, with his reduced capacity for intuitive perception, is unlikely to benefit from the contemplative life of a hermit in the wilderness. But what he can do is to give undivided attention, at times, to a natural phenomenon, observing it in detail, and recalling all the scientific facts about it he may remember. Gradually, however, he must silence his thoughts and, for moments at least, forget all his personal cares and desires, until nothing remains in his soul but awe for the miracle before him. Such efforts are like journeys beyond the boundaries of narrow self-love and, although the process of intuitive awakening is laborious and slow, its rewards are noticeable from the very first. If pursued through the course of years, something will begin to stir in the human soul, a sense of kinship with the forces of life consciousness which rule the world of plants and animals, and with the powers which determine the laws of matter. While analytical intellect may well be called the most precious fruit of the Modern Age, it must not be allowed to rule supreme in matters of cognition. If science is to bring happiness and real progress to the world, it needs the warmth of man's heart just as much as the cold inquisitiveness of his brain.” - Franz Winkler

17. “People only know what you tell them.And it was true.People gave out their whole life stories to anyone and everyone without a second's thought.Stand at a bus stop,sit in a strange pub,get banged up,and someone would always give you their life story.It was as if they were trying to prove they existed” - Martina Cole

18. “Always try to be joyful and proactively benign to the people. By doing so everyday, people have no control at all over my mood.” - Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]

19. “All these angels start coming out of the boxes and everywhere, guys carrying crucifixes and stuff all over the place, and the whole bunch of them - thousands of them - singing “Come All Ye Faithful” like mad. Big deal. It’s supposed to be religious as hell, I know, and very pretty and all, but I can’t see anything religious or pretty, for God’s sake, about a bunch of actors carrying crucifixes all over the stage. When they all finished and started going out the boxes again, you could tell they could hardly wait to get a cigarette of something. I saw it with old Sally Hayes the year before, and she kept saying how beautiful it was, the costumes and all. I said old jesus probably would’ve puked if he could see it.” - J.D. Salinger

20. “Smart people have the brains, but stupid people have the balls” - Ana

21. “Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.” - Oscar Wilde

22. “In the case of everything that belongs to the realm of sentiment, religion, politics, morality, the affections, and antipathies, etc. The most eminent men seldom surpass the standard of the most ordinary individuals.” - Gustave Le Bon

23. “Night was spreading slowly around the spinning Earth. It should have been full of pinpricks of light. It was not. There were five billion people down there. What was going to happen soon would make barbarism look like a picnic - hot, nasty, and eventually given over to the ants.” - Neil Gaiman

24. “Who’s happy? Happy is just what people think they are when they can’t find anything to bitch about.” - Rasmenia Massoud

25. “And pity--people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to feel sorry for you--that takes a lot of strength, smarts, manipulation. Very powerful people.” - Deb Caletti

26. “الجيوش لاتحارب بعيون مغمضة وآذان مسدودة ومعنويات هابطة،إذا كان القادة يُختارون على أسس خاطئه فكل النتائج ستكون خاطئة ،أهم عناصر قوة الأمة جودة تعليمها ونزاهة قضائها وحسن اختيار قادتها وحاربة الفساد على كل مستوى” - عبد الله السعدون

27. “If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate.” - Taylor Swift

28. “…having learned that people cannot be moulded like clay…” - Louisa May Alcott

29. “History isn't like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people, shoved in a box under the sink of censorship to be cut up for the dusters of propaganda, yet it always - eventually - manages to spring back into its old familar shape. History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it. History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.” - Terry Pratchett

30. “The only means by which one could attain complete happiness is to avoid living in constant expectation of it. It's the expectation that causes our unhappiness and consequent bitterness about life” - Mohammed Naseehu Ali

31. “Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that’s right is to get by,and the only thing that’s wrong is to get caught.” - J.C. Watts Jr.

32. “There are people in the world, who are just wrong, and then there are the masses of population that are right, or at the very least they lie in the veil of between. I on the other hand, do not belong to any group. I don’t exist. It’s not that I don’t have substance; I have a body like everyone else. I can feel the fire when it burns against my skin, the rain when it caresses my face and the breeze as it fingers my hair. I have all the senses that other people do. I am just empty, inside.” - J.D. Stroube

33. “La más común y duradera fuente de fraccionamiento ha sido la variada y desigual distribución de la propiedad” - James Madison

34. “ليس من العجيب ان يختلف الناس في ميولهم واذواقهم ولكن بالاحرى العجب ان يتخاصموا من اجل هذا الاختلاف” - علي الوردي

35. “When it comes to judging individuals, I do not like remarks such as 'too good to be true.' They speak as though one is rewarding the nature of evil. Yet, ironically, we still wonder where all the good people have gone.” - Criss Jami

36. “In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent.” - Criss Jami

37. “Man's sensitivity to little things and insensitivity to the greatest things are marks of a strange disorder.” - Blaise Pascal

38. “I don't believe everything happens for a reason. But I still search for reasons anyway. It's like I don't want to admit that maybe everything really is totally random...that people are just molecules in the air, bumping into each other and floating away again."-p150, NOTES TO SELF” - Avery Sawyer

39. “Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty.” - Nalini Singh

40. “The worst wounds, the deadliest of them, aren't the ones people see on the outside. They're the ones that make us bleed internally.” - Sherrilyn Kenyon

41. “It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.” - Wendelin Van Draanen

42. “people have a natural tendency to anthropomorphize their pets, to ascribe human perceptions and intentions to the animal where none exist” - Dean Koontz

43. “In this funny debut, flashy Filipino fashion designer Boy Hernandez sees his American dream become a nightmare when he’s ensnared in a terrorist plot and shipped to Guantanamo. Gilvarry nails the couture scene, but Boy’s rough journey from Manolo to Gitmo is no joke.” - Andrew Abrahams

44. “He passed his hands over some of the fine embossed bindings as he thought, I am a book also, words and thoughts and stories held together by flesh. We open and close ourselves to the world. We are read by others or put away by them. We wait to be seen, sitting quietly on shelves for someone to bother having a look inside us. ” - Ari Berk

45. “Good things could happen to not so bad people.” - Mike Gayle

46. “Man has created technology. Technology has created man; what we are today. Electricity is our way of life. Without it many would perish.” - O.J. Rendchen

47. “A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world” - Ron Rash

48. “Don’t you see? You and he might never cross paths again. Of course, a chance meeting could occur, and I hope it happens. I really do, for your sake. But realistically speaking, you have to see there’s a huge possibility you’ll never be able to meet him again. And even if you do meet, he might already be married to somebody else. He might have two kids. Isn’t that so? And in that case, you may have to live the rest of your life alone, never being joined with the one person you love in all the world. Don’t you find that scary?” - Haruki Murakami

49. “Anyone who has learned the Quran and holds it lovingly in his heart will 'value his nights when people are asleep, his days when people are given to excess, his grief when people are joyful, his weeping when people laugh, his silence when people chatter and his humility when people are arrogant'. In other words every moment of life will be precious to him, and he should therefore be 'gentle', never harsh nor quarrelsome, 'nor one who makes a clamour in the market nor one who is quick to anger'.” - Ibn Mas'ud

50. “When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.” - Aimee Friedman

51. “And that's why people no longer care which words they use as long as they use lots of them.” - Norton Juster

52. “A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.” - COLSON WHITEHEAD

53. “Those full of fear were the most dangerous of people.” - Melina Marchetta

54. “Ir divu veidu cilvēki.Ir tie, kas dzīvo, spēlē un mirst.Un tie, kas nekad nedara neko citu, kā vien turas līdzsvarā uz dzīves smailes.Ir aktieri.Un ir virves dejotāji.” - Maxence Fermine

55. “Most people do not see the world as it is. They see it as they are” - Margaret Landon

56. “He keeps his deepest belief tight to him: that people are good and want to be good, if only you give them a chance.” - Lauren Groff

57. “It's risky most of the time, but its better to listen to your heart.” - Jonathan Anthony Burkett

58. “Damn real live people, getting in the way of peaceful ideals.” - John Scalzi

59. “Other people are only aspects of our own greater being.” - Doug Dillon

60. “Everyone wants a piece of you. The trick is what piece to give.” - Solange nicole

61. “trouble with people is, they always think they have to talk.” - Jane Stanton Hitchcock

62. “There are four kinds of people to avoid in the world: the assholes, the asswipes, the ass-kissers, and those that just will shit all over you.” - Anthony Liccione

63. “Walking to the subway, Aomame kept thinking about the strangeness of the world. If, as the dowager had said, we were nothing but gene carriers, why do so many of us have to lead such strangely shaped lives? Wouldn’t our genetic purpose – to transmit DNA – be served just as well if we lived simple lives, not bothering our heads with a lot of extraneous thoughts, devoted entirely to preserving life and procreating? Did it benefit the genes in any way for us to lead such intricately warped, even bizarre, lives?… how could it possibly profit the genes to have such people existing in this world? Did the genes merely enjoy such deformed episodes as colorful entertainment, or were these episodes utilized by them for some greater purpose?” - Haruki Murakami

64. “Home was more about people than a place.” - Caragh M. O'Brien

65. “Strong Individuals are those Individuals, whom are Individuals” - Rūpas Re

66. “She liked people. Me, I can take them or leave them, but mostly leave them.” - Sue Townsend

67. “All people are enslaved by something.” - Dejan Stojanovic

68. “Ever since her being turned into a Churchill, she has out-Churchill'd them all in high and mighty claims.” - Jane Austen

69. “1. We fear people because they can expose and humiliate us. 2. We fear people because they can reject, ridicule, or despise us. 3. We fear people because they can attack, oppress, or threaten us. These three reasons have one thing in common: they see people as “bigger” (that is, more powerful and significant) than God, and, out of the fear that creates in us, we give other people the power and right to tell us what to feel, think, and do.” - Edward T. Welch

70. “There is no way in which a man can earn a star or deserve a sunset.” - G.K. Chesterton

71. “Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond who you were.” - Jonathan Anthony Burkett

72. “It’s ignorant to think you know everything about a person. There’s many different sides to everybodys personality and there’s just different colours to a personality.” - Kelly Clarkson

73. “In my experience - and this is a very awkward way to put it, since I don't really know what the word experience means - the strangest people in one's life are the people one has known and loved, still know and will always love. Here, both I and the vocabulary are both in trouble, for strangest does not imply stranger. A stranger is a stranger is a stranger, simply, and you watch the stranger to anticipate his next move. But the people who elicit from you a depth of attention and wonder which we helplessly call love are perpetually making moves which cannot possibly be anticipated. Eventually, you realize that it never occurred to you to anticipate their next move, not only because you couldn't but because you didn't have to: it was not a question of moving on the next move, but simply, of being present. Danger, true, you try to anticipate and you prepare yourself, without knowing it, to stand in the way of death. For the strangest people in the world are those people recognized, beneath one's senses, by one's soul - the people utterly indispensable for one's journey.” - James Baldwin

74. “When people go away they vanish, turn to nothing, stop being. They live only in memories, haunting the imagination.” - Dezső Kosztolányi

75. “...I see more pathology in others than I did ten years ago - the older I get, the more insane people seem...” - John Geddes

76. “A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.” - Mason Cooley

77. “Nobody is so busy that they can't make time for the people they really care about.” - Leila Sales

78. “we all collide. It made him think of Newton’s third law of motion:for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. It was like, whenyou collided with someone, they would not be in the same position as theyused to be. Everyone equally affected one another.” - J.R. Lenk

79. “If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.” - Alice Walker

80. “People accuse me of falling in love easily. It just means that I'm able to see the beauty in most of the people who cross paths with me and I appreciate it for what it is and also for what it isn't. Love is imperfect. Falling for someone's flaws is just as necessary as falling for their strengths. And people like myself, who fall into love easily, are sometimes the loneliest souls around at the end of the day.” - Ashly Lorenzana

81. “No, we aren't civilized, even in our business suits and high heels. People are as mean as ever, and as predictable. Underneath it all, we are not so different from what lurks in the wild, perhaps we're worse.” - Donna Lynn Hope

82. “I don’t care what other people think about me. Most people are idiots, and they can think whatever they want.” - Ida Løkås

83. “People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.” - Otto von Bismarck

84. “Anyone can be polite to a stranger. Anyone can remain charming when spending time with an acquaintance, but what about those with whom we have familiarity? We hurt, offend and piss off the ones we love the most. Whenever we come home from playing nice and kissing ass instead of lips, we remove the masks and be who we really are.” - Donna Lynn Hope

85. “I've never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn't seem very appealing to me.” - Banksy

86. “You can't always be by the people you love you have to let them live their own life.” - Brynlee

87. “The sheath that held her soul had assumed significance - that was all. She was a sun, radiant, growing, gathering light and storing it - then after an eternity pouring it forth in a glance, the fragment of a sentence, to that part of him that cherished all beauty and all illusion.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

88. “He wanted to explain how people were never quite what you thought they were.” - William Golding

89. “To that point, he had always found the vicomtesse overflowing with friendly politeness, that sweet-flowing grace conferred by an aristocratic education, and which is never truly there unless it comes, automatically and unthinkingly, straight from the heart.[...]For anyone who had learned the social code, and Rastignac had absorbed it all in a flash, these words, that gesture, that look, that inflection in her voice, summed up all there was to know about the nature and the ways of men and women of her class. He was vividly aware of the iron hand underneath the velvet glove; the personality, and especially the self-centeredness, under the polished manners; the plain hard wood, under all the varnish. [...] Eugène had been entirely too quick to take this woman's word for her own kindness. Like all those who cannot help themselves, he had signed on the dotted line, accepting the delightful contract binding both benefactor and recipient, the very first clause of which makes clear that, as between noble souls, perfect equality must be forever maintained. Beneficience, which ties people together, is a heavenly passion, but a thoroughly misunderstood one, and quite as scarce as true love. Both stem from the lavish nature of great souls.” - Honoré de Balzac

90. “Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad.” - George R.R. Martin

91. “When you pray and hope for a change. Don't expect a change to come. Expect the opportunity for a change to come.” - Jonathan Anthony Burkett

92. “Ungrateful people forget what they are not grateful for.” - Ana Monnar