Degradation Of Humans Quotes

“Tom Buchanan compelled me from the room as though he were moving a checker to another square.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Cruel? Do you mean to the hunchback?”
“I mean—Of course the man himself was quite indifferent; no doubt, it is to him just a way of getting a living, like the circus-rider’s way or the columbine’s. But the thing makes one feel unhappy. It is humiliating; it is the degradation of a human being.”
“He probably is not any more degraded than he was to start with. Most of us are degraded in one way or another.”
― E L Voynich

“What amazed Cardinal Sandomme not a little was that all the bishops present were behaving as if there were something new and unexpected in the situation, as if some new calamity had suddenly hit mankind’s spiritual fiber. Yet this was nothing but the latest step on the road of spiritual degradation mankind had taken long ago . . .”
― Romain Gary, The Gasp

“Me estaba dando cuenta yo, por primera vez, de que todo sigue, se hace gris, se arruina viviendo. De que no hay final en nuestra historia hasta que llega la muerte y el cuerpo se deshace…”
― Carmen Laforet, Nada