“Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfection, where some pain is indelible.”
“To be a human being means to be lonely.To go on becoming a person means exploring new modes of resting in our loneliness.”
“Human beings are made to forget things, otherwise they couldn't tolerate the pain of life. They say that time heals, but it's not time, it's some inner power all people have.”
“All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world.”
“as imperfect human beings, any of us, all of us, are subject at some time or another to make mistakes!”
“Reducing human beings to the faint after-image of some omnipotent deity, or trying to give human life meaning by postponing real fulfilment to some post-mortem paradise ... can actually threaten to rob real life of its meaningfulness.”