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We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.

— Emile M. Cioran

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

My family had all kinds of complications in relationships. I would like to meet the person who did not. Since when is being absolutely perfect what being a human is? What do we gain from that?

— Anthony Edwards

I don't know why we're not interested in seeing good people. I think we like seeing good people, but only if bad things happen to them. Which is weird, isn't it?

— James McAvoy

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.

— V. S. Naipaul

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

— Aesop

I don't want to say that our expectations of love are too high; it's just that if we're to meet them, we have to become a little more self-aware.

— Alain de Botton

Can we ever really know anyone well? Let's just say we often found ourselves in each other's company and neither of us minded.

— Bernard Werber

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.

— Stephen Hawking

✗Opposing Perspectives

I've never met a person who does not want a safer world, better medical care and education for their children, and peace with their neighbours. I just don't meet those people. What I meet, over and over again, as I travel around, is that the essential human condition is optimistic - in every one of these places.

— Eric Schmidt