Being Human Quotes:

Being human is the most terrible loneliness in the universe.

- A.A. Attanasio

source: A. A. Attanasio (1997). “The Dragon and the Unicorn”, GuildAmerica Books

topic: Loneliness, Being Human, Terrible

The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.

- Aaron Carter

topic: Humanity, Life Is, Being Human

I believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Believe, Humanity, Being Human

The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.

- Anatole Broyard

topic: Epic, Stories, Being Human

Being human in the digital world is about building a digital world for humans.

- Andrew Keen

source: Source: www.theguardian.com

topic: World, Digital, Being Human, Digital World

... one of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. [p. 65]

- Anne Lamott

topic: Law, People, Being Human

Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.

- Bjorn Ulvaeus

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Rights, Being Human, Equal

There's no victory-condition for being human.

- Bruce Sterling

topic: Victory, Being Human, Humans

The audience will make you feel like a demigod. But when you leave the stage, get back to being human.

- David Coverdale

topic: Being Human, Demigods, Stage

A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings, human or otherwise.

- Derrick Jensen

source: Derrick Jensen (2000). “A Language Older Than Words”

topic: Culture, Being Human, Produce

We are all here to be a service to those who can't be a service to themselves. We can give people hope and more reasons for being human.

- Dionne Warwick

source: "This much I know: Dionne Warwick". Interview With Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2012.

topic: People, Giving, Being Human

Obviously the idea of being human is a very human idea.

- Dominic Monaghan

topic: Ideas, Being Human, Humans

I have never, in all my life, been so odious as to regard myself as 'superior' to any living being, human or animal. I just walked alone - as I have always walked alone.

- Edith Sitwell

topic: Animal, Being Human, Humans

I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.

- Ellen Glasgow

topic: Humanity, Human Nature, Being Human

can't blame a man for being human when human is all he'll ever be!

- Eric Jerome Dickey

topic: Men, Blame, Being Human

Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.

- Ernest Cline

topic: Being Human, Videogame, Bearable

We always find it difficult to forgive our heroes for being human.

- Frances Hardinge

topic: Hero, Forgiving, Being Human

..there is hope. That's the marvelous thing about being human. We can change our future. We need not be enslaved by the experiences of the past. We can learn to love even when we have not received love.

- Gary Chapman

topic: Past, Needs, Being Human, Marvelous Things, Hope And Love

Animism is far from primitive, nor is it about pre-modernity because animism does not serve as a precursor to modernity. Rather animism is one of the many vitally present and contemporary other-than-modern ways of being human.

- Graham Harvey

source: Graham Harvey (2005). “Animism”, p.21, Columbia University Press

topic: Doe, Way, Being Human, Animism

Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

- Henri Nouwen

topic: Mean, Compassion, Being Human

Chacun de nous a un jour, plus ou moins triste, plus ou moins lointain, o  u' il doit enfin accepter d'e"  tre un homme. There will come a day for each of us, more or less sad, more or less distant, whenwe must accept the condition of being human.

- Jean Anouilh

topic: Being Human, Accepting, Plus

To my mind, there is a reason that music is there and it's about being human.

- Kim Deal

source: "It used to be about music. Now, without the drink, it's good to go back to that". Interview with Jude Rogers, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2009.

topic: Mind, Being Human, Reason

What a bummer it is to be a human being.

- Kurt Vonnegut

topic: Humanity, Being Human, Humans

When did we stop being people, being human?

- Malorie Blackman

topic: People, Being Human, Humans

Without emotion, what's the point of being human?

- Marie Lu

source: Marie Lu (2013). “Champion: A Legend Novel”, p.115, Penguin

topic: Emotion, Being Human, Humans

The great advantage of being human is that we can employ rational thought and resolve to change our circumstances.

- Mariella Frostrup

source: "Will underachieving and being directionless alienate me from people?" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2012.

topic: Being Human, Advantage, Circumstances, Rational Thought

Part of the blessing and challenge of being human is that we must discover our own true nature.

- Mark Nepo

topic: Blessing, Challenges, Being Human, True Nature

Being human is overrated.

- Mark Penn

source: "Clinton's Road to Second Place" by Jackie Calmes, www.wsj.com. June 04, 2008.

topic: Being Human, Overrated, Humans

Being human is being a lot of things at the same time.

- Matthias Schoenaerts

topic: Being Human, Humans

Burnout is what happens when you try to avoid being human for too long.

- Michael Gungor

topic: Long, Trying, Being Human, Burnout

The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a ***** addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.

- Nick Hornby

source: "How does it feel to be a woman? First, the Good News..." by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2001.

topic: Needs, Dramatic, Being Human, Heroin Addiction

The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone

- Nick Hornby

topic: Dramatic, Being Human, Enough

Being human, we can only receive infinite truth in finite doses

- Norman Grubb

topic: Truth, Infinite, Being Human, Dose

Music is part of being human.

- Oliver Sacks

topic: Musical, Being Human, Music Is

Oh, humiliation is poisonous. Its one of the deepest pains of being human.

- Pierce Brosnan

topic: Pain, Being Human, Humiliation, Poisonous

Harold could no longer pass a stranger without acknowledging the truth that everyone was the same, and also unique; and that this was the dilemma of being human.

- Rachel Joyce

topic: Unique, Stranger, Being Human

I'm obsessed with being human.

- Rachelle Lefevre

source: "Rachelle Lefevre Interview OFF THE MAP". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 12, 2011.

topic: Being Human, Obsessed, Humans

Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Limits, Influence, Being Human, Elementals, Mental Power

Good taste has everything to do with being cultured and being refined, and if art has to do with anything, it has to do with being human.

- Rich Mullins

topic: Art, Taste, Being Human, Good Taste, Refined

At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.

- Richard Rorty

source: Richard Rorty (1999). “Philosophy and Social Hope”, ePenguin

topic: Fighting, Justice, Being Human, Social Injustice

Often what we take for a kindness is just someone acting in their capacity as a human being.

- Robert Breault

topic: Kindness, Acting, Being Human

There are too many people, and too few human beings.

- Robert Zend

topic: People, Human Nature, Being Human

That's something that is almost part of being human and I'm certain that will continue.

- Sally Ride

topic: Being Human, Certain, Humans

Only you can take responsibility for your happiness..but you can't do it alone. It's the great paradox of being human.

- Simon Sinek

topic: Responsibility, Being Human, Paradox

The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life.

- Stephen Levine

topic: Listening, Attention, Being Human, Gifts Of Life

Life is a mess, Rose said. You can fix the mess human beings make, Rose said, But you can't fix the mess being human is.

- Tom Spanbauer

source: Tom Spanbauer (2007). “In the City of Shy Hunters”, p.254, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

topic: Rose, Life Is, Being Human

Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.

- Vidal Sassoon

topic: Our Society, Realizing, Being Human

Being human means having power; specifically, the power to accomplish whatever we want.

- Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

source: Eric Swanson, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (2010). “The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness”, p.179, Random House

topic: Mean, Want, Being Human

Merely being human is morally significant.

- Alice Crary

topic: Being Human, Significant, Humans

If we're not conscious of sex, than we don't know we're having the pleasure. There's a compromise. By virtue of being human, there's self-reflection. Sigmund Freud should replace the Gideon Bible in motel rooms.

- Francis Levy

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Compromise, Virtue, Being Human

Part of being human is having a sense of humor.

- Patrick Wolf

topic: Sense Of Humor, Being Human, Humans

Being human, at times, is very painful, and that leads us to reawakening.

- Suzanne Giesemann

topic: Painful, Being Human, Humans

It may be hyperbolic to declare that Shakespeare teaches us more about being human than all the natural scientists combined.

- Philip Kitcher

topic: May, Being Human, Scientist

Don’t get addicted to being human. This is only temporary.

- Robert Monroe

topic: Being Human, Humans, Temporary

Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

source: Abraham Joshua Heschel (1965). “Who is Man?”, p.44, Stanford University Press

topic: Self, Independence, Being Human

Let's all help each other be a little bit better at being human beings.

- Chelsea Handler

source: Source: variety.com

topic: Littles, Helping, Being Human, Helping Each Other

Thats the beautiful thing about being human: Things change.

- Stephenie Meyer

topic: Beautiful, Things Change, Being Human

Don't be afraid to be human - you're human, you're going to have emotional days. You're going to have days when things suck and then some days when things are great, but don't feel guilty because you're experiencing that. Don't feel guilty from being human.

- Chris Colfer

source: "Chris Colfer Vents His ‘High School Frustrations’ In ‘Struck By Lightning" By Carolyn Gregoire, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2012.

topic: Emotional, Guilty, Being Human

One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.

- Christopher Morley

source: Christopher Morley (1920). “Hide and Seek”

topic: Humanity, Being Human, Penalties

Once you've achieved everything, there is nothing left. You take out the core of being human: the striving.

- Peter F. Hamilton

source: Peter F. Hamilton (2010). “The Evolutionary Void”, p.381, Pan Macmillan

topic: Being Human, Strive, Humans

Part of being human is that we can’t go back, we can only hope that if we come across that moment again we’ll do it the right way.

- Jesse Lacey

topic: Way, Moments, Being Human, Worst Moments

Stop being Jews and start being human beings.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Being Human, Jew, Humans

For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.

- Terry Eagleton

source: "Ideas for modern living: virtue" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2010.

topic: Kind, Affair, Being Human, Prospering

There is no doubt that being human is incredibly difficult and cannot be mastered in one lifetime.

- Terry Pratchett

source: "Thief of Time". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2001.

topic: Doubt, Lifetime, Being Human

What is private belongs to me alone. What is personal belongs to all of us through the shared experience of being human.

- Terry Tempest Williams

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Being Human, Shared Experiences, Humans

Touch is the meaning of being human.

- Andrea Dworkin

source: Andrea Dworkin (2009). “Intercourse”, p.40, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Being Human, Humans

… but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human.

- John Irving

topic: Being Human, Form, Humans, Exhaustion

Bernie Sanders is all about being humane and loving to each other.

- Tommy Chong

source: Source: vegascannabismag.com

topic: Being Human, Humane

If being human requires freedom, then enslavement to the cares of this world is dehumanizing.

- Tony Campolo

topic: World, Care, Being Human

Being human is a lot more difficult than being on tour.

- Trent Reznor

topic: Being Human, Difficult, Humans

Peace is something that we can bring about if we can actually learn to wake up a bit more as individuals and a lot more as a species; if we can learn to be fully what we actually already are; to reside in the inherent potential of what is possible for us, being human.

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

topic: Wake Up, Being Human, Individual

I don't want to test that simple sense of being human. I don't want to transform it.

- Ayad Akhtar

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Simple, Being Human

I have no interest in problematizing things. So what I am writing to is that simple sense of being human in myself.

- Ayad Akhtar

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Writing, Simple, Being Human

Christianity is an entirely new way of being human.

- Maximus the Confessor

topic: Way, Christianity, Being Human

Of all the creatures on this planet none is more dangerous than a human being.

- Robert A. Heinlein

topic: Humanity, Being Human, Danger

Sometimes being human sucks.

- Melissa Marr

topic: Sometimes, Being Human, Humans

If you have superpowers and no one can actually cause you any physical harm, then everything has to be very thought-through. You almost have to fake at being human.

- Henry Cavill

source: Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2013.

topic: Fake, Causes, Being Human

There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.

- Bertolt Brecht

topic: Taste, Human Nature, Being Human, Good Taste

I really prize my freedom more than work. I prize just being human and doing other things.

- Rose McGowan

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Just Being, Being Human, Humans

I do pray. I pray to something...up there. I have a God sense. It's not religious so much as superstitious. It's part of being human, I guess.

- Jack Nicholson

source: Source: www.esquire.com

topic: Religious, Praying, Being Human

Being human is difficult. Some people make it more difficult than others. I was one of those people.

- Lana Del Rey

source: "Lana Del Rey: Can She Live?". Complex Magaxine Interview, www.complex.com. January 24, 2012.

topic: Trust No One, People, Being Human

Acknowledge to yourself that the factory job is dead. Having a factory job is not a natural state. It wasn't at the heart of being human until very recently. We've been culturally brainwashed.

- Seth Godin

topic: Jobs, Heart, Being Human

For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become.

- Carol Ann Duffy

topic: Machines, Who We Are, Being Human, Time Machine

For me, philosophy is an activity of thought that is common to human beings. Human beings at their best.

- Simon Critchley

source: Simon Critchley, Carl Cederstr?m, Todd Kesselman (2013). “Impossible Objects”, p.33, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Philosophy, Common, Being Human

Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.

- Janet Fitch

topic: Suffering, Being Human, Humans