“Improving the human condition takes little effort; destroying it takes maximum force.” — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. — White Oleander Copy Share Image
No character, however upright, is a match for constantly reiterated attacks, however false. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Our years, our debts, and our enemies are always more numerous than we imagine. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Could we know what men are most apt to remember, we might know what they are most apt to do. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet Copy Share Image
The business of fiction is the study of the human condition, and gender is something that many humans are obsessed with, thus… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Sometime you just need to be silent, have a drink and crack a smile or somethin', because the human condition, in general,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
What interests me is love, sex, death, cruelty, compassion and the desire for meaning in an apparently godless universe. In other words… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Oil paints were wiser to the human condition, understanding our imperfections and giving us enough time to rework ourselves until we made… — S. Walden Copy Share Image
“While religions could not liberate humans from the agony of the human condition…they did provide an invaluable way to withdraw from the… — Jeremy Griffith Copy Share Image
I love studying folklore and legends. The stories that people passed down for a thousand years without any sort of marketing support… — Tim Schafer Copy Share Image
“By “the Permanent Things” [T. S. Eliot] meant those elements in the human condition that give us our nature, without which we… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Television was the most revolutionary event of the century. Its importance was in a class with the discovery of gunpowder and the… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
We have this desire for everything to be explained to us. But if you go through your daily actions, very little ends… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
My advice would be to look at the things you do to make money as ways to inform your work in the… — Wilson Cruz Copy Share Image
“he mentioned that The Tragedy of Man by Madách had “influenced my whole life.” The moral he recalled from it was that… — William Lanouette Copy Share Image
“The materialistic and selfish quality of contemporary life is not inherent in the human condition. Much of what appears ‘natural’ today dates… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
We are all substantially flawed, wounded, angry, hurt, here on Earth. But this human condition, so painful to us, and in someways… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“We humans may be brilliant and we may be special, but we are still connected to the rest of life. No one… — Patricia McConnell Copy Share Image
“[At the scene of a murder] The cats' bloodthirst was normal; it was the way God had made them. They were hunters,… — Shirley Rousseau Murphy Copy Share Image
“On an individual level, the human condition changed day by day, even hour by hour, and while you were soaking in self-pity… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“It is, often, in the utter despair of humanness that we become willing to consider deeply spiritual answers. Although the door and… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
“In 1983 Colonel Burns wrote a poem in which he envisioned how his fledgling communications network might one day influence the world.… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“A community is only being created when its members accept that they are not going to achieve great things, that they are… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
“The crucial issue of the times, he suggested, was the human person: a unique being, who lived in a material world but… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
“Language is our identity tool and by using experience, observation, and imagination, we each discover the words that give voice to our… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image