“Some days I survive by accident, not hope. The pain never stops—it just changes costume. And still, somewhere in the static, there’s… — Jonathan Harnisch Copy Share Image
“perused a selection of love eggs. According to a handwritten card, concubines in the Secret Palace had used them to strengthen their… — Greg Keen Copy Share Image
Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The first truth, Buddha taught his disciples, is that suffering is part of the human condition. If we simply try to avoid… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
From education to the environment, from high wages to health care to human rights, California is proof that progressive policies put into… — Kevin de Leon Copy Share Image
Folk music has always contained a concern for the human condition. And since it brings people into it from different points of… — Mary Travers Copy Share Image
I've been inspired for a long time by Nicole Holofcener. I admire her greatly as an auteur, examining the human condition in… — Pollyanna McIntosh Copy Share Image
The path of compassion leads to the development of insight. But it doesn't work to say, "Ready, set, go! Be compassionate!" Beginning… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
I think that metaphor really is a key to explaining thought and language. The human mind comes equipped with an ability to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Globalization has considerably accelerated in recent years following the dizzying expansion of communications and transport and the equally stupefying transnational mergers of… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“Al-e-Ahmad’s invocation of existentialist and absurdist themes in the context of Tehran’s slums underlined a shared predicament. Following Hedayat, he spoke of… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“See, that’s the tragedy of the human condition. No one wants to be corrupted by power when they set out to get… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Curmudgeons speak up because they have to, because it’s become critically important for them to tell the truth as they see it.… — Lionel Fisher Copy Share Image
“In our day and age, global society has been saturated with the wrong teaching of false positivity. The denial of darkness never… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you a secret about the human condition. Nihilism leads to spirituality. And spirituality leads to nihilism. It is never… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
“It's the human condition, Kitten. The unknown isn't something that sits well. They'd rather push it away-not completely, but just enough that… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
“Whatever touches or enters into a sustained relationship with human life immediately assumes the character of a condition of human existence. This… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“For starters, would your soul mate even still be alive? A hundred billion or so humans have ever lived, but only seven… — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
“I thought I was just catching up to everyone else, but it turned out I overshot the mark and had begun to… — Clive Treadwell Copy Share Image
“I love being able to create characters, give them problems, and make sure everything turns out right in the end. Writing gives… — Jennie Adams Copy Share Image
The reason why the romantic love relationship is such an intense and universally sought-after experience is that it seems to offer liberation… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
After having read a lot of fiction, literature, whatever you want to call it, from Wolfe to Houellebecq, I think you have… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Anybody who believes and experiences their life and doesn't have shades of gray in it doesn't live where I live and is… — Alexis Denisof Copy Share Image
“The Tragedy of the human condition is that the very things that make us interesting and culturally important and progressively brilliant are… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth to me; the element shows… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“I've found that one must try and teach people that there's no top limit to disaster-that, so long as breath remains in… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
The destination of the soul: this is what I, led on by Nils Holgersson, came to seek in the literature of Western… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
What is the secret to a happy life? Is there a secret? Is there only one secret? These are the questions that,… — Brett Cooper Copy Share Image
What is especially disturbing about the political left is that they seem to have no sense of the tragedy of the human… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The desert ... may serve better as the backdrop for the problematic relationship between man and the environment. The human struggle, the… — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
“Does truth lie in the everyday events, the daily incidents, in the pettiness and vulgarity most people’s lives are compounded of, or… — Jorge Amado Copy Share Image
I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think… — Kevin Bacon Copy Share Image
Nasr combines in his writing audacious intellectual criticism, deep understanding of Islam... and a commitment to the Western-European contributions to the emancipation… — Mohammed Arkoun Copy Share Image
Research is an expression of faith in the possibility of progress. The drive that leads scholars to study a topic has to… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
I am very interest in the human condition. That is what I love about acting. I like studying different people and their… — Dennis Quaid Copy Share Image
There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty,… — Mike Figgis Copy Share Image
Of course you want to drive that out of yourself because you want to be wise, not foolish. You also have to… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The human condition can be summed up in a drop of blood. Show me a teaspoon of blood and I will reveal… — Laird Barron Copy Share Image
I enjoy learning about different periods and people, and then taking what's universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches… — Laura Linney Copy Share Image
