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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

What we call human is nothing but a dance of trillions of well organized, interconnected, interesting, and magical molecules. — Debasish Mridha

Ultimately, the transgender question is about more than just sex. It's about what it means to be human. — Russell D. Moore

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

This is a debate about our understanding of human dignity, what it means to be a member of the human family, even though tiny, powerless and unwanted — Henry Hyde

It is extraordinary how the human mind sees what it anticipates and is blind to anything that could not be dreamed of. — Tracy Rees

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

I think acting is revealing to people what it means to be human. — Nick Enright

Our main problem is a lack of understanding of what it means to be human and that we are not separate from nature. — Jacque Fresco

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

What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine? — John Brunner

What is it about the human face that it should be the most memorable thing in existence and yet its atoms are the quickest to disperse? — Marius Kociejowski

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

Church is a place where you get to practice what it means to be human. — James Luther Adams

Instead of what a betrayal it is to be lied to, how rare and wonderful it is when two human beings can tell each other the truth. — Huntley Fitzpatrick

Who hasn't asked himself, am I a monster or is this what it means to be human? — Clarice Lispector

Men are born human. What they must learn is to be an animal. If they learn otherwise it may kill them, and kill life on the planet. — Paul Shepard

One purpose in my writing is to help people expand their own understanding of what it means to be human. — Foster Laverne Harding

What's important is that all human knowledge be made available to all intelligent people who want to learn it. — Stephen Jay Gould

Choice is the essence of what I believe it is to be human. — Liv Ullmann

There's an all too human tendency to believe that what we know and experience now is the way it will and always should be. — Nick Bilton

Art is the act of triggering deep memories of what it means to be fully human. — David Whyte

Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. — Frank Lloyd Wright

I lay there under the stars and thought of what a great responsibility it is to be human. — Donald Miller

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

If this is what it's like to be human, he thought, no wonder the world is so fucked up. — Daryl Gregory

Sordid things, for the most part, are what make human beings, my father included, move. That's what it is to be human, I'm afraid. — Kurt Vonnegut

To be human, that's what most of us long for. It is the human which has become myth to us. — Anne Rice

The payoff of a human venture is, in general, inversely proportional to what it is expected to be. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

What did the Romans say? "De gustibus non est disputandum": It is worthless to discuss personal taste. It is called 'personal' for a reason. — Massimo Marino

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

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose. — Dennis Potter

Acting is about communicating what it is like to be human: the pain, the laughs, the misery, the joy. I suppose I am searching to have it all. — Rosamund Pike

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

Running is the heart of what it means to be human. — Christopher McDougall

the soul said, "Is this what you think it means to be human? — C. G. Jung

Imposters, in one shape or another, are likely to flourish as long as human nature remains what it is and society shows itself ready to be gulled. — Steve Berry

It is a consolation of human life that the sick forget what it is like to feel well, or the miserable to be happy. — Cyril Connolly

How nobody is perfect. How you just have to close your eyes and breathe out and let the puzzle of the human heart be what it is. The — Sue Monk Kidd

I feel that joy is the basic emotion of life and of human beings. It's what supports everything. We are here to be happy. We are to enjoy "alegria." — Alex Abreu

Our species is on the verge of changes that will fundamentally alter what it means to be human ... and we are the people driving that change. — Daniel Keys Moran

Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory. — Mahatma Gandhi

Caring for others is an expression of what it means to be fully human. — Hillary Clinton

To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?' — Robert Fulghum

I've learned how you feel more human once you have known, even in your imagination, what it is like to be not. — Helen Macdonald

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

Learning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human. — Henri Nouwen

All writing is presumption, of course, since no one knows what it is like to be another human being. — Cynthia Ozick

It's ironic. Letting yourself experience what you most don't want to experience is the only way to truly be human. *** — Johnny B. Truant

Human entirety can only be what it is when giving up the addiction to others' ends. — Georges Bataille

Classical music is a wonderful 1200 year-old tradition that witnesses everything that it has meant and what it means right now to be human. — Michael Tilson Thomas

A generation without history is a generation that not only loses a nation's memory but loses a sense of what it's like to be inside a human skin. — Simon Schama