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