“The you is programmed for unhappiness because it is programmed to seek that which can never bring true happiness. It goes after… — Gina Lake Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
An occasion, catalyst, or tripwire?permits the poet to reach into herself and haul up whatever nugget of the human condition distracts her… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Man is born in order to think (there he is, Kirill, finally!). Except that I don't believe that. I've never believed it,… — Boris Strugatsky Copy Share Image
I don't see myself as some kind of lone figure standing out there and doing my work in solitary splendour, but as… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“The origin of the human condition is best explained by the natural selection for social interaction—the inherited propensities to communicate, recognize, evaluate,… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I see depression as an exponentially developed version of a human condition. Meaning I always think in the end it's humanizing. People… — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
“Life Contains Inevitable Difficulties Life is not only short, but difficult. There are times of great joy, love, triumph, and delight, moments… — Roger Walsh Copy Share Image
Life is atrocious, we know. But precisely because I expect little of the human condition, man's periods of felicity, his partial progress,… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“Getting organized can bring us all to the next level in our lives. It’s the human condition to fall prey to old… — Daniel J. Levitin Copy Share Image
“Hazel sometimes had a fantasy daydream at school where the teacher walked into the classroom and yelled, ISN’T EVERYTHING HORRIBLE? DOESN’T THE… — Alissa Nutting Copy Share Image
“We are all bisexual to begin with. That is a fact of our condition. And we are all responsive to sexual stimuli… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless, more submissive, and… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Most of us live in a condition of secrecy: secret desires, secret appetites, secret hatreds and relationship with the institutions which is… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
A bleak, black book, it engenders awe and despair. I have read it in its entirety 4 1/2 times, each time finding… — Michael Silverblatt Copy Share Image
The theist can only find meaning by leaving this life for a transcendental world beyond the grave. The human world as he… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
I realise that I had the best of serious picture journalism. There was an innocence in our approach, especially in the 1950s… — Eve Arnold Copy Share Image
“I’m a pessimist of the human condition, as a rule, but contemplating the future and how the Carpenter kids could contribute to… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
As authors, most - most authors , our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
'Revolutionary Road' is a fascinating study of the human condition of a fragmenting marriage and the torment that these two people put… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
If the participants regret participating, then you won't have something that reveals some greater truth about human condition or allow some other… — Rod Blackhurst Copy Share Image
Being a cop is often seeing the worst of the human condition and behavior. With all of that said, there is no… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
“Perfection is an illusion. Yet perfectionists demand it from others while being far from flawless themselves. The margin of error of the… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
I had a fear of becoming anything, a fear of becoming a specialist. I might have become a doctor, but if you… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
We all grow up with anger. It's part of the human condition. But what do you do with that? It seems obvious… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
How, then, find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct which holds one to the earth and… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“Morality was not relative, they claimed, nor even existing solely in the realm of the human condition. No, they proclaimed morality as… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Aging is no accident. It is necessary to the human condition, intended by the soul. We become more characteristic of who we… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Someone once said to me, 'Some of us choose to live with a lifeboat just a little bit out of our reach.'… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
“The ultimate evil is the weakness, cowardice, that is one of the constituents of so much human nature. When, rarely, unalloyed nobility… — John Simon Copy Share Image
“The future needed service, not pity, not piety; but in the past lay darkness, confusion, waste, and all the cramped primitive minds,… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature and by no other feeling. My love… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
THEATRE HAS THE POWER TO MOVE, INSPIRE, TRANSFORM AND EDUCATE IN WAYS THAT NO OTHER ART FORM CAN. THEATRE REFLECTS BOTH THE… — Irina Bokova Copy Share Image
Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
The sympathies of a well-adjusted person can easily be aroused by the plight of strangers. Indeed, the skillful writer of a novel,… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
I've grieved enough for his life cut short and for mine for running on for so long with so little in it.… — Rosie Thomas Copy Share Image
Strangely, charity sometimes gets dismissed, as if it is ineffective, inappropriate or even somehow demeaning to the recipient. 'This isn't charity,' some… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
It would be wonderful if people could grow together in groups, teaching and learning communities where they empower, evoke, explore the enormous… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
