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[...] if Jesus is not the answer to the human condition, there is no answer. — Nik Ripken

What pays for all this?"
"Grief in the face of inevitable death. The wish to stop time. The human condition. — Margaret Atwood

I don't think most people are all heroic or all villainous, so I find ambiguity of motivations to be a natural human condition. — Ann Nocenti

Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century. — Salman Rushdie

I think you have to live inside your contradictions and find a way to accept that that's the human condition - to be forced to live in contradiction. — Alison Hawthorne Deming

I like real problems, the human condition - twisted, darker stuff. — Drea De Matteo

There is no way to explain enlightenment. It is just a word to indicate something beyond, something very, very far beyond the normal human condition. — Frederick Lenz

While it is one thing to wish for the truth, it is quite another to cope with it — Jeremy Griffith

The human condition ... is defined by the aspiration to always supersede oneself, which in turn requires nonconformity. — Pablo Antonio Cuadra

Her job as a writer of fiction was to report on the human condition, to tell us who we are and what we think and what we do. A — Elizabeth Strout

Taigen Dan Leighton has lovingly illumined still another dimension of the human condition. — John Daishin Buksbazen

Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self. — Jerzy Kosinski

You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition. — Dan Simmons

The human heart is a dark forest — Tobias Wolff

Sexuality is a remarkable aspect of the human condition. — Asa Don Brown

No matter what chains are broken, slavery is a condition of the heart. — Marquita Burke-DeJesus

I'm sorry about today."
"Do you want to talk about it?"
"I was bored and lonely."
"Some would call that the human condition. — Michael Nava

Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior. — Tim Robbins

Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors. — Voltaire

I was born human. But this was an accident of fate - a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change. — Kevin Warwick

I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition. — Sharon Gless

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune. — Socrates

The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man. — Milan Kundera

I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I prefer to do television. Typical human condition. — Penelope Keith

Experiencing differences is crucial to the human condition. Especially when that difference is over the head, blower powder. — Ernest Hemingway,

Reviews condition people. At the end of the day, a lot of human minds are malleable. They can be easily shaped with strong words. — Drake

Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity. — Ernesto Che Guevara

People got opinions, that's all they've got. — Larry McMurtry

Improving the human condition takes little effort; destroying it takes maximum force. — T.F. Hodge

Foolishness is the human condition, and exactly what God handles best. — Curtiss Ann Matlock

The unceasing flow of thought in all its various forms is an inescapable and defining aspect of the human condition. — Paul O'Brien

Cartoons are windows into the human condition, — Doug Marlette

Your conflicts reflect subminds in dispute. Such is the human condition — Gregory Benford

Is the human condition not defined by an endless struggle to control the ego's subterfuges? — Romeo Dallaire

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition. — Bill Gates

We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves — George Eliot

Finding understanding of the human condition is what rehabilitates and transforms the human race — Jeremy Griffith

Mistaken ideas always end in bloodshed, but in every case it is someone else's blood. This is why our thinkers feel free to say just about anything. — Albert Camus

They are surprised that he did it, though, which shows you that the male mind expects very little in the way of altruism from it's fellows. — Stephen King

Death and ruin is man's preferred ecosystem. — Joe Hill

Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct. — Penelope Fitzgerald

Nature, and the natural human condition, generates tremendous suffering. We have the means to overcome that, and we should deploy it. — Ray Kurzweil

Art is not life, and life is not art; but the beauty and horror of the human condition exists between the two. — H.G. Mewis

What was there about the human condition that made us hold on to tragedy with such tenacity and easily forgo the happiness we could reach readily? — V.C. Andrews

Postmodernism: The cultural condition marked by the absolute gratification of human desires and the absolute neglect of human needs. — Peter K. Fallon

A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [ ... ] — Gary Shteyngart

I was not alone in the human condition. — Lisa Wingate

Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat. — Jose Saramago

I'm human, It's a terminal condition — C.D. Reiss

Every man has within himself the entire human condition. — David Shields

The more I know, the more I realize that I don't know much at all ... — Hans Christian Hollenbeck

The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about. — Patrick O'Brian

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Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture. — Erich Fromm

This human condition and people's stories. That's what I love. The other thing is traveling. — Fisher Stevens

In a tavern everybody puts on airs except the landlord. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

For whatever it's worth, I believe we're born imperfect, and perfection, whatever that may be, is unattainable by us mere humans. — Liza M. Wiemer

You can either be a vain movie star, or you can try to shed some light on different aspects of the human condition. — Leonardo DiCaprio

The Human Condition has a vacancy ... a transient declaring It's Self The Victor! Till death do us part in This War for human isolation. — Rosemarie Yusen

All this miraculous hatred. Christ, a man can't eat his breakfast for filling his belly full of it. — Colum McCann

I ma trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition. — Douglas Coupland

Daddy, I don't like military parades. I never want to be like those people who march rank and file to music - they were given brains by mistake. — Corinne Maier

To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain. — Herman Melville

To acknowledge God is to fully accept the sorrow of the human condition. — Douglas Coupland

We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition. — Madeleine M. Kunin

Human beings are interested in the human condition. — William Boyd

Our lives can only be interpreted in retrospect, yet must be lived from day to day, blindly. What folly, the human condition! — Joyce Carol Oates

When we see the brain we realize that we are, at one level, no more than meat; and, on another, no more than fiction. — Paul Broks

What held the civilized world together was the thinnest tissue of nothing but human will. — Paulette Jiles

Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - whether of sex, race, or servitude. — Adrienne Rich

We believe that an individual must endeavor to assume the universalism inherent in the human condition. — Frantz Fanon

The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of liberty. — Dante Alighieri

Scoundrels are always sociable. — Arthur Schopenhauer

All men are in need of help and depend on one another. Human solidarity is the necessary condition for the unfolding of any one individual. — Erich Fromm

It's the desire to study the human condition, the desire for collaboration, to learn and absorb, and to lead a well-examined life. — Nicole Kidman

There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past. — Morris West

You're fucked up, mister. But you're cool." "I believe that's what they call the human condition, — Neil Gaiman

In the end we're all miserable. It's a human condition. — Yvonne Prinz

Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history. — Charles Frankel

I think it's the human condition to be frequently embarrassed by your parents. — Ivanka Trump

Only tyranny fears the full expression of liberty. — Jose Marti

Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition. — Jane Yolen

Although we cannot control God's time, it is part of the human condition to want to receive the things we are waiting as quickly as possible. — Paulo Coelho

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating. — O. Henry

The problems I had existed before I did, and I discovered them. — Guy Sajer

My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind, — Langston Hughes

It seems to be part of the human condition to need someone you can look down on. I still don't get that one. — Janis Ian

History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything. — Jeffrey D. Sachs

Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same. — Hugh Hardy

To get hold of the human condition, we need next a much broader definition of history than is conventionally used. — Edward O. Wilson

To grapple with and understand anxiety is, in some sense, to grapple with and understand the human condition. — Scott Stossel

I love the grandiosity, how sweepingly entertaining films can be. And I think there's a place for films that pry more into the human condition. — Colin Farrell

Men always forget that human happiness is a disposition of mind and not a condition of circumstances. - John Locke — Robert Jackson Bennett

They say the first thing to go when you're old is your legs or your eyesight. It isn't true. The first thing to go is parallel parking. — Kurt Vonnegut

the natural condition of the human ego: that it is empty, painful, busy and fragile. — Timothy J. Keller

The basic condition of human life is happiness. — Dalai Lama

This idea of how everything is interconnected, and the impermanence of things.. It sums up the human condition to me, and it helps me on my path. — Jeff Bridges

The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence. — George Eliot

I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition. — Werner Herzog

I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection. — Nicolas Cage