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