Top 100 Be Human Quotes
#1. A world that won't forget is a world drowned in its not forgetting. Do we want a world full of unedited memory? To be human is to be finite.
Tacita Dean
#2. Music, art, writing ... it's like some
magical psychic drainage. A way of
tapping into the bigger picture of all
it is to be human.
Lou Rhodes
#3. I guess these days this is a politically charged statement, but it seems to me manifestly true: You make nothing alone. Human beings are not mere competitors, and human life is not merely competition. We are collaborators. To be human is to catch the falling person.
John Green
#4. The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.
John Naisbitt
#5. You know deep down something is over a long time before you face it and do something about it. In bed, as in life, we pass through endless little deaths and wake reborn from them to start again. This is what it is to be human.
Chloe Thurlow
#6. Once again, there was talk of winning every game, and once again, we proved to be human, because an oblong ball takes funny bounces.
Michael Pinball Clemons
#7. The courageous testimony of Dr. Faust that a maiden's smile is more precious than history, philosophy, education, religion, law, politics,economics, and all the other branches of learning. Learning is another name for vanity. It is the effort of human beings not to be human beings.
Osamu Dazai
#8. I got into pastoring because of the art form. I started a church, but I felt the art form needed to be freed for all people. A particular religion over others was never interesting to me. I wanted to talk to people about what it means to be alive and what it means to be human.
Rob Bell
#9. Who hasn't asked himself, am I a monster or is this what it means to be human?
Clarice Lispector
#10. How strange it is to be human. For a short moment we are conscious of the glories of life then we become silent again. Perhaps there is more. Look more deeply into the matter.
Frederick Lenz
#11. We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
Antonin Artaud
#12. To be human is to be broken and broken is its own kind of beautiful.
Drake
#13. What does it matter, she thought, if businesses are left unattended, if people are not always as we want them to be; we need the time just to be human, to enjoy something like this: a boy chasing ants, a dry land drinking at last, birds in the the sky, a rainbow.
Alexander McCall Smith
#14. Have you taken the decision of war? Then, you are sick! Have you participated the war? Then, you are sick! Do you produce guns? Then, you are sick! Refuse all of them and be healthy, be human, be normal, be a real man!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#15. To be human was to be melodramatic, to feel things acutely, love and hate and lust, to search for the Holy Grail, outrun the other kids in the fifty-yard dash and care mightily about it.
Nevada Barr
#16. Alice wonders if anyone has ever tended Jill, in any way, and if her intelligent ferocity is what happens when a girl has had to teach herself how to be human.
Kate Racculia
#17. Our officials want nothing more than to be at the top of their professional game and make the correct call. That's what they do; that's their living, that's their pride, that's their joy. They don't achieve that because they happen to be human.
David Stern
#18. It's ironic. Letting yourself experience what you most don't want to experience is the only way to truly be human. ***
Johnny B. Truant
#19. If a being from another world were to ask you, "How can I learn what it's like to be human?" a good answer would be, "Study mythology.
Joseph Campbell
#21. To be human : to strive in the face of the certainty of failure.
Spider Robinson
#22. Tonglen means "taking in and sending out". This meditation practice is designed to help ordinary people like ourselves connect with the openness and softness of our hearts. Instead of shielding and protecting our soft spot, with tonglen we could let ourselves feel what it is to be human.
Pema Chodron
#23. The most wonderful opportunity which life offers is to be human.
Henry Miller
#24. Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is possible that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never had much temptation to be human beings.
George Orwell
#25. I want to sit and be less career oriented. Snowboard, dirt bike, mountain bike, surf. Just be human. To me, that's an important part of life.
Jason Lewis
#26. I know I lost my temper, but I tried to be human along the way.
Bernard Ebbers
#27. I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human.
Iris Dement
#28. To be human is to be in the tense condition of a death-foreseeing, consciously libidinous animal. No other earthly creature suffers such a capacity for thought, such a complexity of envisioned but frustrated possibilities, such a troubling ability to question the tribal and biological imperatives.
John Updike
#29. What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?
John Brunner
#30. The final frontier may be human relationships, one person to another.
Buzz Aldrin
#31. Then be human. Let go and move on. They who hurt you cannot expand their mind. But surely you can.
Devdutt Pattanaik
#32. To be human is to be challenged to be more divine. Not even to try to meet such a challenge is the biggest defeat imaginable.
Maya Angelou
#33. The very right to be human is denied every day to hundreds of millions of people as a result of poverty, the unavailability of basic necessities such as food, jobs, water and shelter, education, health care and a healthy environment.
Nelson Mandela
#34. You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
Eldridge Cleaver
#35. Gerald's look assured her that he and the others would be as near angels as children could be without ceasing to be human.
E. Nesbit
#36. He is human. I hadn't wanted him to be human. I had wanted him to be perfect and golden - steady and solid, simple and strong - so that I could be messy, complicated, and weak. But we are each all of those things.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#37. To be seen to be human, provided you're doing your job at the same time, is definitely not a negative, not at all.
Charles Kennedy
#38. Nestorian Christians argued that Jesus had two completely distinct natures - one human, the other divine - while Gnostic Christians, especially those called Docetists, claimed that Jesus only appeared to be human but was in fact fully God.
Reza Aslan
#40. What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth.
Orson Scott Card
#41. The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.
Dennis Potter
#42. I'm so thankful a significant majority of Americans are saying no to military intervention. We've got to find a solution that will in the end be one that makes Syria a better country, a better people. We can be human only together.
Desmond Tutu
#43. Since Pussy never had thought, nor would she think, that women shouldn't have abortions, she had to come to terms with the realization that to be human, and woman, includes the possibility and even the act of murder.
Kathy Acker
#44. You must be human ... how weirdly exotic and excitingly perverse.
Stephen King
#45. Bless
their believing happiness will make them happy;
that the ocean is magical, a kingdom
where we go to be human,
and grateful.
Philip Schultz
#47. But when you're a lemon who happens to be human, everyone tries to help you out
Finn Bell
#48. Maybe learning to be human was about learning to live in pain, not trying to figure out how to live pain-free. (156)
Keith Ablow
#49. Today, God, help me to know that it is okay to allow myself to be human. Help me not to feel guilty or punish myself when I need to "fall apart.
Melody Beattie
#50. We all pretend, we all hide things, so why not take the concept to an extreme? That is the basic idea for the character of Dexter. Pretend to be human, while quietly and carefully living out the life of a monster on the side.
Jeff Lindsay
#51. The moon understands what it means to be human. Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections.
Tahereh Mafi
#52. If I were given a choice, I would stand by Eve and eat that forbidden apple once again. Why? I know there is beauty and meaning and significance in the complexity of our lives on earth. Otherwise, we are just animals. I prefer us to be human.
J.D. Radke
#53. We're going to be human, and we are going to make mistakes, but you really should understand the power that you have and embrace it in a positive way.
Drake Bell
#54. May we all be human: beautiful, stupid, temporal, endless.
And as the sun sets, I place my hand upon my heart, feel that it is still beating, and remind myself: "Past performance is not a predictor of future results.
Joseph Fink
#55. What a familiarity with the construction of Turing test bots had begun to show me was that we fail - again and again- to actually be human with other humans, so maddeningly much of the time.
Brian Christian
#56. If any of us were faced with a huge bag of free money and very little accountability, it would be human nature that you would make the most of it.
Heather Brooke
#57. Like all art, nonfiction film should invite, seduce, or force us to confront the most difficult, frightening or mysterious aspects of what it means to be human.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#58. It's a hard time to be human. We know too much
and too little.
Ellen Bass
#59. After this whole acting thing is over and done, you eventually have to be human. Some people are never human. It's very weird.
Joe Rogan
#63. I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.
David Foster Wallace
#65. At times, it seems to me that to be human is to want that which we cannot have
Brandon Sanderson
#66. Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.
Ayad Akhtar
#67. the soul said, "Is this what you think it means to be human?
C. G. Jung
#68. He was glad to be human. For sure, it was a great inconvenience to have to walk on two legs and wear clothes. There were so many things he didn't know. Yet had he been a fish or a sunflower, and not a human being, he might never have experienced this emotion.
Haruki Murakami
#69. If you do not consider the man before you to be human, there are few restraints of conscience on your behavior towards him.
Paul Auster
#70. Because I can't seem to escape it. It's a way for me to address and counter my questions about what it means to be human, or, in my case a Dominican human who grew up in New Jersey.
Junot Diaz
#71. Sordid things, for the most part, are what make human beings, my father included, move. That's what it is to be human, I'm afraid.
Kurt Vonnegut
#72. My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
Desmond Tutu
#73. There's something about you, Lorenzo," I say, shaking my head as I look away, unconsciously returning his smile. "Sometimes I think you might just be human."
"You're making shit weird again, Scarlet."
I roll my eyes. "Whatever.
J.M. Darhower
#74. A long arm appeared from the black hole. It latched on to the side of the wall and pulled through the rest of its body. I sat frozen in my seat. The arm was too long to be human; it was just bone with a flesh covering. Whatever was coming through that hole was not something I intended to meet.
K.E. O'Connor
#75. I am tired of having hands
she said
I want wings
But what will you do without your hands
to be human?
I am tired of human
she said
I want to live on the sun -
Louise Gluck
#76. Forgetting her promise of no questions, Littlest suddenly asked, "Might we be human?" But Fastidious did not reply.
Lois Lowry
#77. You know, there are times when it's a source of personal pride to not be human.
Bill Watterson
#78. The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.
Honore De Balzac
#79. Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.
Bertolt Brecht
#80. Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human.
Dar Williams
#81. You are your own stories and therefore free to imagine and experience what it means to be human ... And although you don't have complete control over the narrative (no author does, I can tell you), you could nevertheless create it.
Toni Morrison
#82. Human nature doesn't change. When enough people are comfortable enough financially, there is going to be human nature that wants to spend more money on better quality and, to some degree, status symbols as well.
Danny Meyer
#83. To be human is to seek beauty, Shallan. Do not despair, do not end the hunt because thorns grow in your way.
Brandon Sanderson
#84. If you knew the immensity of what it means to be human, you would not talk about God or Heaven.
Jaggi Vasudev
#85. If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings.
Ivan Klima
#86. We can simultaneously be human and monster - that both of those possibilities are in all of us.
Matthew Quick
#87. What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human.
Clarice Lispector
#88. All great art commences with a vision, and perhaps it may be that the vision is closer to God than that which is ultimately created by the artist's brush. There will always be human flaws in the execution. Only in the mind can the artist achieve true perfection.
John Connolly
#89. Someone's weaknesses are the strength which allows them to be human.
Michelle Carithers
#90. We've beat up our umpires. They're now allowed to be human.
Joe Torre
#91. Can we simply address what it means to be human? What is available to us in this brief moment when the universe lifts up in the form of a human sentient body and being and we live out our seventy, eighty, or ninety years (if that) and then dissolve back into the undifferentiated ocean of potential?
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#92. What allows us to be human is something daemonic.
Heraclitus
#93. In all those things which deal with people, be liberal, be human. In all those things which deal with the people's money or their economy or their form of government, be conservative.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#94. I love you and I feel sad just like real people, so I must be human... Mustn't I?
Brian W. Aldiss
#96. I lay there under the stars and thought of what a great responsibility it is to be human.
Donald Miller
#97. Christ is the ground of our masculinity. He took Adamic humanity into the grave with him, and emerged with a new way to be human, and a renewed way of being a man.
Joe Rigney
#98. You do have a Dream. It's part of what it means to be human, created in the image of God.
Bruce Wilkinson
#99. Everyone, no matter how historically famous or modernly praised, has no idea about the ultimate truth of what it means to be human.
Chris Matakas
