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Humans Quotes by Anais Nin
- The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty.
- It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
- The child in me could not die as it should have died, because according too legends it must find its father again. The old legends…
- The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with millions brings a…
- A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.
- The diary taught me that it is in the moments of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately. I learned to choose the…
- The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only…
- There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on…
- It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
- Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
- If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible…
- The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child…
- The leaf fall of his words, the stained glass hues of his moods, the rust in his voice, the smoke in his mouth, his breath…
- The same chemicals were used in the cooking as were used on the composition of her own being: only those which caused the most violent…
- Many couples, many people, are not living with real human beings, but with their ghosts. Who has not followed for years the spell of a…
- He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, now threw her down…
- I only regret that everybody wants to deprive me of the journal, which is the only steadfast friend I have, the only one which makes…
- Out of the red and silver and the long cry of alarm to the poet who survives in all human beings, as the child survives…
- In each studio there is a human being dressed in the full regalia of his myth fearing to expore a vulnerable opening, spreading not his…
- Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve, and at such moments there is nothing…
- She was fully, painfully aware that very rarely did midnight strike in two hearts at once, very rarely did midnight arouse two different equal desires,…
- I am quite wiling to confide entirely in human being, except that at some moment or another human beings get preoccupied, moody, busy, inattentive, and…
- We celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing aggression in human beings. And when one sees in psychoanalysis hostility disappearing…
- Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat.
- Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.
More Humans Quotes
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong