[...] We have to realize that this wound [of loneliness] is inherent in the human condition and that what we have to… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
“We writers constantly try to build up our own confidence by getting published, making sales, winning prizes, joining cliques or proclaiming theories.… — Boria Sax Copy Share Image
Many science fiction writers are literary autodidacts who focus on the genre primarily as a literature of ideas rather than as a… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I think music is a lifting force, I think love is the lifting force in the human condition. I think you see… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
“To hold two ideas that contradict each other is to flirt with absurdity, and humans are creatures who spend their lives trying… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“When thinking harshly on the human condition, as I so often do, my antidote is to think gently on libraries, for if… — Howard Norman Copy Share Image
The human condition is better improved by altering detrimental circumstances and personal perspectives than by trying to alter personal outlooks, while ignoring… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
We tend to set up success in Christian work as our purpose, but our purpose should be to display the glory of… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“To honor and celebrate; or to balance and rectify, drawing what you want or need into your life. A third mode is… — Cait Johnson Copy Share Image
“Why aren’t you asking a hundred other guys why they don’t write strong women characters? I believe that what I’m doing should… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
“We have this distinctly human concept of good and bad. Nature doesn't have that. It just is. I'm not comfortable with that.… — Joe Hutto Copy Share Image
“...the sea's only gifts are harsh blows and, occasionally, the chance to feel strong. Now, I don't know much about the sea,… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“I had been reading children's books all my life and saw them not as minor amusements but as part of the whole… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Yet again, an ancient answer echoes across the centuries: Listen! Listen to stories! For what stories do, above all else, is hold… — Ernest Kurtz Copy Share Image
“Our disability is discursive: we simply do not know how to talk about these things any more. For the last thirty years,… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
The possible signs of a coming collapse are the same as the greatest strengths of Western civilization: democracy, capitalism, the generally peaceful… — Arthur Demarest Copy Share Image
“[He] believed both love and hate to be irrelevant. To him, they were "impediments of the human condition," and, in his words… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“No, I mean, this is a problem that most people have. A problem of the human condition. We get ahold of some… — Phillip DePoy Copy Share Image
The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
What freedom does a starving man have?" The answer is that starvation is a tragic human condition- perhaps more tragic than loss… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I've always been very keen on Pascal, and what I'm most keen on in Pascal is his emphasis upon human wretchedness. He… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
I believe in the American theatre. I believe in its power to inform about the human condition, its power to heal ...… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
“History reminds us of the inherent weakness in the human condition and the very real possibility that our fellow human beings are… — John Fea Copy Share Image
...failure is a human condition, not victory over odds; for each Hellen Keller who triumphs, there are tens of millions who fail,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“That is one of the conceptions most difficult for stupid people to grasp. They always suppose some ponderable alteration will make the… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
I believe that the Jews have made a contribution to the human condition out of all proportion to their numbers: I believe… — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
“By freeze-framing the image of our lifestyle, by stopping our mental clock at times and letting time flow, 'psychological' time can replace… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“Here is one of the great truths of the human condition: when you need Stayfree Maxi Pads to absorb the expectorants produced… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Except in extreme cases of biochemical imbalance, giving over your brain to chemical tinkering is the ultimate act of nihilism. It amounts… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
Fame is a very unnatural human condition. When you stop to realize that Abraham Lincoln was probably never seen by more than… — Chevy Chase Copy Share Image
Degas was obsessed by the art of classical ballet, because to him it said something about the human condition. He was not… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“For me, fantasy must be about something, otherwise it's foolishness... ultimately it must be about human beings, it must be about the… — George Clayton Johnson Copy Share Image
Anyway, madness and genius. They're the disturbed pals of the human condition. The Bonnie and Clyde, the Thelma and Louise, the baking… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
I realized the universe is 15 billion years old and unspeakably complicated. I still love the teachings of Christ, but I also… — Moby Copy Share Image
I write about the things that happen to us all. The things that are tough, the things that matter, from a loved… — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
When I was in '97, I didn't know I was in a very major moment. But with the privilege of reflection, I… — Mara Brock Akil Copy Share Image
“We all of us carry the seed of evil in our hearts and souls,” she told him. “Even the purest, even the… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
I think that there are artists of different genres whose calling is to use their art to hope to affect and better… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
“A basic guide for application offers this equation: The intention of the text The human condition of the text The human situation… — Zack Eswine Copy Share Image