Human Experience Quotes

244 Human Experience quotes by 207 unique authors

Yet human experience and the practice of communication have shown throughout the ages that definitions are an illusion, like having a speech defect and trying… — Jose Saramago
When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it,… — Elizabeth Gilbert
If two people loved, they slept together; it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience. — Graham Greene
Each of us is here to discover our true selves; that essentially we are spiritual beings who have taken manifestation in physical form; that we're… — Deepak Chopra
The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience; that they had gone through pain and had come out on the… — John Steinbeck
to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words...the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
To be mortal is the most basic human experience, and yet man has never been able to accept it, grasp it, and behave accordingly. Man… — Milan Kundera
The entire range of human experience is present in a church choir, including, but not restricted to jealousy, revenge, horror, pride, incompetence (the tenors have… — Connie Willis
Grant knew that people could not imagine geological time. Human life was lived on another scale of time entirely. An apple turned brown in a… — Michael Crichton
You are an infinite spiritual being having a temporary human experience. — Wayne Dyer
Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience. To keep faith with recognition we have… — Adam Phillips
Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny. It's the only one. It's based on thousands of years of human experience. There is nothing narrow about the… — Mark Levin
I like my human experience served up with a little silence and restraint. Silence makes experience go further and, when it does die, gives it… — Djuna Barnes
What art ought to do is tell stories which are moment-by-moment wonderful, which are true to human experience, and which in no way explain human… — John Gardner
What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience? — Rollo May
I have studied many religions, many different persuasions of thought in Christian belief, and I have come, in this experience to this: the most important… — Dale Evans
Literature presents you with alternate mappings of the human experience. You see that the experiences of other people and other cultures are as rich, coherent,… — Chaim Potok
We want to believe in the essential, unchanging goodness of people, in their power to resist external pressures, in their rational appraisal and then rejection… — Philip Zimbardo
Snap judgments? I'd gotten over those about the time I was toilet trained. Swore off diapers and faith in the human experience all in one… — Rob Thurman
As a spirit having a human experience, you can choose to not merely exist but to be fully conscious and aware of living in a… — James Van Praagh
Suffering, I was beginning to think, was essential to a good life, and as inextricable from such a life as bliss. It’s a great enhancer.… — Lance Armstrong
Love is a human experience, not a political statement. — Anne Hathaway
Talking about one's feelings defeats the purpose of having those feelings. Once you try to put the human experience into words, it becomes little more… — Derek Landy
Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. — Elizabeth Gilbert
Even when we lose an arm or a leg, there's not less of us but more. Human experience weighs more than human tissue. — Augusten Burroughs

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