Human condition Quotes

“Quot homines, tot sententiae”

— Terence

Those not present are always wrong.

— Philippe Nericault Destouches

We're either nothing or a God's regret.

— Robert Frost

A man of fifty is responsible for his face.

— Anonymous

The human condition itself inspires me.

— Nathan Parsons

Mortality defines the human condition.

— Drew Gilpin Faust

Habits form a second nature.

— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

“the human condition is a singularity,”

— Edward O. Wilson

For many men that stumble at the threshold are well foretold that danger lurks within.

— William Shakespeare

I guess what I always found funny was the human condition.

— John Prine

“Improving the human condition takes little effort; destroying it takes maximum force.”

— T.F. Hodge

Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances.

— Charles Stross

Any great art is meant to illuminate the human condition.

— Sterling K. Brown

He that hath the name to be an early riser may sleep till noon.

— James Howell

Everyone stumbles at one time or another. It's the human condition

— Amby Burfoot

Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space.

— White Oleander

Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow.

— Janet Fitch

“It was the human condition: the need to know the worst, the destructive desire to see how it feels when you hit…

— Helen Sarah Fields

I guess I really enjoy movies that have to do with human conditions and maybe based a little bit more in reality,…

— Boti Bliss

“... there is a whole hell of a lot of knowledge about the (expletive removed) human condition that we are not ready for.”

— Norah Vincent

Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art.

— Tucker Max

Why do we write novels or make television about real things? It's the human condition and human suffering.

— Ioan Gruffudd

A realistic recognition of the human condition is that it is corrupt beyond belief. What do you suppose would happen if the…

— Frederick Lenz

As long as greed, stupidity and cowardice remain a part of the human condition, there will be a constituency for Democrats.

— Jack Kelly

My advice would be to look at the things you do to make money as ways to inform your work in the…

— Wilson Cruz

Don't attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you're lonely. Lonliness is the human condition. No…

— Janet Fitch

I love studying folklore and legends. The stories that people passed down for a thousand years without any sort of marketing support…

— Tim Schafer

“he mentioned that The Tragedy of Man by Madách had “influenced my whole life.” The moral he recalled from it was that…

— William Lanouette

“The materialistic and selfish quality of contemporary life is not inherent in the human condition. Much of what appears ‘natural’ today dates…

— Tony Judt

I think music is a lifting force, I think love is the lifting force in the human condition. I think you see…

— David Crosby

Religion to me is when man gets ahold of spirituality: "My god is right, yours is wrong." Religion to me is the…

— Denzel Washington

We are all substantially flawed, wounded, angry, hurt, here on Earth. But this human condition, so painful to us, and in someways…

— Alice Walker

“If I am right, then enjoying music involves a kind of outward-going sympathetic movement. In music, as in sex and architecture, the…

— Roger Scruton

“It is, often, in the utter despair of humanness that we become willing to consider deeply spiritual answers. Although the door and…

— Donna Goddard

“But then I realized, they weren't calling out for their own mothers. Not those weak women, those victims. Drug addicts, shopaholics, cookie…

— Janet Fitch

“The Self since the time of Descartes has been stranded, split off from everything else in the Cosmos, a mind which professes…

— Walker Percy

“In 1983 Colonel Burns wrote a poem in which he envisioned how his fledgling communications network might one day influence the world.…

— Jon Ronson

“A community is only being created when its members accept that they are not going to achieve great things, that they are…

— Jean Vanier

I feel very strongly that history is about everything. It isn't just about politics or the military or social issues. If art,…

— David McCullough

“To commit one’s life to the Jesus Reality is far more than an intellectual undertaking. While the Reality of Jesus is a…

— John F. Baggett