Human Things Quotes
27 quotes by 24 authors
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How like they are to human things!
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Stargazing is one of the most profoundly human things one can do. But perhaps we must more frequently tear ourselves away from the mystery and…
— Jack Gleeson
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The absence of romance from my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but if it be judged useful by those inquirers who…
— Thucydides
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If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human…
— Ellen Terry
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A day lays low and lifts up again all human things.
— Sophocles
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The great critic … must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
— Edmund Waller
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Have you ever realized that you can give things to God that are of value to Him? Or are you just sitting around daydreaming about…
— Oswald Chambers
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We ought not to listen to those who exhort us, because we are human, to think of human things....We ought rather to take on immortality…
— Aristotle
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Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.
— Hannah More
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All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.
— Ovid
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Sexuality, and sexual orientation - regardless of orientation - is just natural. Â An act of sex is one of the most human things. Â But an…
— Hozier
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The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things ... have their beginnings; but the…
— Edith Hamilton
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The miracle of Bach has not appeared in any other art. To strip human nature until its divine attributes are made clear, to inform ordinary…
— Pablo Casals
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Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs; Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease,…
— Hannah More
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Continuously thou wilt look at human things as smoke and nothing at all; especially if thou reflectest at the same time, that what has once…
— Marcus Aurelius
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People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity,…
— David Duchovny
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I must, before I die, find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have never said yet -- a…
— Bertrand Russell
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Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.
— Thomas Nagel
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The first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb,…
— C.S. Lewis
Who Wrote These Human Things Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 27 Human Things Quotes as follows: