Being human Quote by Jon Courtenay Grimwood Download Open image ““We die every day," Kit said. "It's called being human.”” — Jon Courtenay Grimwood ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Being human Every day
“We're all dying. That's what defines the condition of living.” — The Crown Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Humans are about to grasp basic substances of all creations. When that moment comes, life or death are no longer matters.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“Everybody dies." I said. "Mortality is the constant that defines our existence.” — K. J. Parker Copy Share Image
“To our friends,' he answered, 'we die every day, but to ourselves we die only at the end.” — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
“You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
“Everyday as we die, we must be reborn. If there were no death, life would be meaningless.” — Boep Joeng Copy Share Image
“That's part of being human, right? Part of being any living thing. You hold on to life until it gets ripped away from you.… — Nick Cutter Copy Share Image
“No one could tie you tighter than you could tie yourself and it was the ropes you couldn't see that bound you tightest.” — Jon Courtenay Grimwood Copy Share Image
“She was herself, the original. Everyone else was just a copy.” — Jon Courtenay Grimwood Copy Share Image
There was something intrinsically sad about Shinjuku. A vacuum-packed hollowness that no quantity of neon could hide. Roppongi was the same, only there the… — Jon Courtenay Grimwood Copy Share Image
Geoff Nelder inhabits Science Fiction the way other people inhabit their clothes. — Jon Courtenay Grimwood Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, since there was only one of him, most of his riches were wasted.” — Jon Courtenay Grimwood Copy Share Image
“that opening position in every negotiation. The one that said, out of the goodness of my heart I'm going to agree to rob you… — Jon Courtenay Grimwood Copy Share Image
“He was just one of those people ... one of a thousand expats who'd dragged their unhappiness to the other side of the world,… — Jon Courtenay Grimwood Copy Share Image
“All beauty, according to Lady Katchatka, had its origins in pain.” — Jon Courtenay Grimwood Copy Share Image
“Seems to be catching." "What is?" asked Neku. "Wanting Kit dead." Neku shrugged. "He was fucking the wife of a gang boss and bikers… — Jon Courtenay Grimwood Copy Share Image
“There were old firemasters and bad firemasters; there were no old bad firemasters” — Jon Courtenay Grimwood Copy Share Image
“the answer was no, whatever her query was, except for those bits to which his answer was yes” — Jon Courtenay Grimwood Copy Share Image
Half of Japan still couldn't tell the difference between crime and politics. — Jon Courtenay Grimwood Copy Share Image
The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“There are no greater or truer lords, gods, fathers, sons or holy spirits, than the humans. Humans are the highest beings on earth.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
We’re built to deal with death, disease, failure, struggle, heartbreak, problems. It’s what separates us from the animals and why we envy and love… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
“There are countless reasons to be jealous. But that doesn’t mean you have to succumb to them.” — Beth Revis Copy Share Image
“I honour the clarity of the present moment, and the stillness at the centre of being (mine & others), even in the midst of… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically short of… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human being takes… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Heartbreak is our indication of sincerity: in a love relationship, in a work, in trying to learn a musical instrument, in the attempt to… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
The Gnostics believed that exile was the essential condition of man. Do you agree? I do. The artist and the addict both wrestle with… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Either way, you were connected. By your desires. By your defiance. By the simple, complicated fact of who you were.” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
