Human Condition Quotes

332 Human Condition quotes by 288 unique authors

Every man has within himself the entire human condition — Michel de Montaigne
...failure is a human condition, not victory over odds; for each Hellen Keller who triumphs, there are tens of millions who fail, mute and deaf… — Joyce Carol Oates
As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an… — Alan Moore
I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few… — Lisa Kleypas
Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness… — Primo Levi
I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever occurred to any… — Mordecai Richler
I ma trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition. — Douglas Coupland
Good writing is good writing. In many ways, itâ€™s the audience and their expectations that define a genre. A reader of literary fiction expects the… — Rosemary Clement-Moore
Anyway, madness and genius. They're the disturbed pals of the human condition. The Bonnie and Clyde, the Thelma and Louise, the baking soda and vinegar.… — Deb Caletti
[...] We have to realize that this wound [of loneliness] is inherent in the human condition and that what we have to do is walk… — Jean Vanier
Anybody who has the courage to raise his eyes and look sanely at the awful human condition ... must realize finally that tiny periods of… — Flann O'Brien
Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors. — Voltaire
the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith — Ernest Becker
I can get my head turned by a good-looking guy as much as the next girl. But sexy doesn't impress me. Smart impresses me, strength… — Lisa Unger
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 heartbreaking inability to… — Elizabeth Gilbert
I've grieved enough for his life cut short and for mine for running on for so long with so little in it. It's weakness now,… — Rosie Thomas
The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings we… — Jane Yolen
So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of… — Voltaire
A day came when I should have died, and after that nothing seemed very important. So I have stayed as I am, without regret, separated… — Guy Sajer
Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can't always understand them, but we have to trust in them. I know you… — Lauren Kate

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