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What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history. — Avery Brooks

Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a relief to have somebody say that? — Kurt Vonnegut

Good heavens! what a foolish thing is this pretended perfectibility of the human race which is continually being dinned into our ears! — Theophile Gautier

The right to evaluate risk for oneself is part of what it means to be a functioning human being. — Mark Steyn

Everybody needs to go to Mongolia just to see what it is to be a human being again. — Milla Jovovich

No human being can control love, and no one is to blame either for feeling it or for losing it. What alone degrades a woman is falsehood. — George Sand

A human being is never what he is but the self he seeks. — Octavio Paz

Fiction's about what it is to be a human being. — David Foster Wallace

Q: What is creativity? A: The relationship between a human being and the mysteries of inspiration. — Elizabeth Gilbert

When you have trouble getting out of bed in the morning, remember that your defining characteristic-what defines a human being-is to work with others. — Marcus Aurelius

An [officer] is still a human being. When that fear kicks in, you never know what can happen. — Method Man

For me, art that's alive and urgent is about what it is to be a human being. — David Foster Wallace

My work as a human being is to quiet my mind, open my heart and do what I can to relieve the suffering with as much wisdom, skill, whatever I got. — Ram Dass

What have we in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew is lying upon it? — Friedrich Nietzsche

We are either going to dissolve as a human race or we are going to break through into a new understanding of what it is to be a human being. — Terry Riley

Wine is an escape from grief,
a slip into sleep,
a cool forgetting of the hot pains of day.
What better cure for being human? — Euripides

Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are. — Yanni

Laughter or crying is what a human being does when there's nothing else he can do. — Kurt Vonnegut

The accurate measure of a human being is what he or she actually gets done. — George Lois

Imaginative truth is the most immediate way of presenting ultimate reality to a human being ... ultimate reality is what we call God. — R.S. Thomas

Fiction should always challenge what you believe in, and make you think hard about what it is to be a human being. — Joe Mynhardt

A human being writes the book, but what writes for him or her is more spirit than physical being, and that spirit lives only in solitude. — Elizabeth Berg

Only a human being can step out of himself and analyze what he is doing right and what he is doing wrong. A dog — Robin S. Sharma

What is a human being, if not a repository for the coexistence of opposing impulses? — Yonason Goldson

I hope that as a totally literate human being that you don't even know what "illiteracy" is because it simply doesn't exist in your world. — Peter Davis

The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being. — Eknath Easwaran

At the end of the day, I'm a human being and I just think that's what it is. Challenging stereotypes by just being who I am. — Tinie Tempah

When a person understands what sort of existence a human being is, and what exactly the "self" is, that person has been liberated forever. — Masahisa Goi

Listening is not merely not talking ... it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told to us. — Andrew Miller

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods. — Margaret Fuller

But, then, every gesture made by a human being is sacred and full of consequences, and that makes me think even more about what I am doing. — Paulo Coelho

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no other is, and to do what no other can do. — William Ellery Channing

Out of love, God becomes man. He says: See, here is what it is to be a human being. — Soren Kierkegaard

Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being. — Elie Wiesel

The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being. — Immanuel Kant

Being passionate is not what makes you a girl, it's what makes you a human. — Emma Watson

This is what I do for a living. It's not who I am as a human being. — Don Johnson

Every single person is a beautiful human being, and we're lucky. That's what gives you longevity. You have to love the people that you work with. — Katee Sackhoff

You can learn from your health challenge what is most important and become a better human being. — Lee L Jampolsky

The day you know when you're not a true human being: Is when you look at what you haven't got instead of what you have. — Me

A true legacy is established over a lifetime and relates to what a human being does for others, not for himself. — Bill Courtney

Listen. All great literature is about what a bummer it is to be a human being. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

HIV is not what defines me. You get that? It is not what defines me. I am not my disease. I am a human being. A guy — J.H. Trumble

Shut up!Leave him alone! He cant understand. He cant help what he is ... but for God's sake, have some respect! He's a human being! — Daniel Keyes

To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Everything you experience is what constitutes you as a human being, but the experience passes away and the person's left. The person is the residue. — Ilka Chase

To be what I term a 'quality' human being one has to be transparently real and have the courage to be what he is. — Bruce Lee

Fiction's about what it is to be a fucking human being. — David Foster Wallace

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

A 'normal person' is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being. — E.L. Doctorow

What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being? — Jose Saramago

What is a human being, then?'
'A seed.'
'A ... seed?'
'An acorn that is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree. — David Zindell

Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power. — Rollo May

The most important question a human being has to face ... What is it? The question, Why are we here? — Elie Wiesel

I just wanted to be a human being. I just wanted to be whoever I saw in the mirror, without a race or a place in life. What is so wrong with that? — Walter Dean Myers

What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into concepts ... — Anton Webern

Without the voice, hands, and feet of a human being, an evil spirit is limited in what it can accomplish. — Perry Stone

Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are — Niels Bohr

Authenticity is not a metaphysically distinctive way of being human; it is just a way of taking responsibility for what one has already been given. — Peter E. Gordon

What kept me hammering away at it was the thought that to live my life as a human being, nothing is more important than being able to express myself. — Naoki Higashida

To be an artist - actually, to be a human being in these times - it's all difficult. ... What matters is to know what you want and pursue it. — Patti Smith

One of the most aggressive things a human being can do is to go against what he or she believes is nice or pretty. — Paulo Coelho

I think what creates a winner is a person who can connect with their partner - another human being.. connect with their soul — Patrick Swayze

It is hard for me to believe that a human being could have done what I have done." Jeffrey Dahmer — Robert Keller

What is the life of a human being - a drop of dew, a flash of lightning? This is so sad, so sad. — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

People say life is short.
life's not short - it's long.
the memory of a human being: that's what's short. — Julio Alexi Genao