Top 100 Being A Human Quotes
#1. If you think you are big, you become small. If you know you are nothing, you become unlimited. That's the beauty of being a human being.
Sadhguru
#2. Forgive yourself for being a human creature, Ramezay. That is the beginning of wisdom; that is part of what is meant by the fear of God; and for you it is the only way to save your sanity. Begin now, or you will end up with your saint in the madhouse.
Robertson Davies
#3. Being a human being is all about experiencing all of the wonders of the world and therefore as an actress, I'm open to any opportunity that may enrich my horizon.
Sarah Polley
#4. I recognize myself to a lesser or greater extent in everything I read, good and bad, and that's part of being a human being if you're honest enough. And obviously the darker parts are the things you don't let control you.
Rufus Sewell
#5. I tried to think of what an actual human would say in this situation. I asked, "Are you okay?" Sofia began to cry, which was exactly why I generally tried to avoid being a human.
Maggie Stiefvater
#6. I don't have a problem baring my emotions in music. That's one of the reasons I'm glad to have music in my life. I'm pretty resilient as far as being a human being. A lot of songs write themselves.
Shelby Lynne
#7. You don't pass or fail at being a human, dear.
Neil Gaiman
#8. You flunked out of Being a Human 101 but aced Assholery III? The sarcastic sneer on her lovely lips was sexy as fuck and I couldn't help laughing at the witty comeback.
Raine Miller
#9. What's positive is moving from a place of growing in faith to really feeling more grounded in faith, to understand that faith is hard, that I'll stumble, that I'll make mistakes, that I'll sin. But, that's part of being on a faith path; it's part of being a human being.
David Gregory
#10. I try not to judge people. It's wrong and unfair and a terrible way to go about being a human.
Joselyn Hughes
#11. I liked the warmth of her body against mine and realized the pathos of being a human. Of being a mortal creature who was essentially alone but needed the myth of togetherness with others. Friends, children, lovers. It was an attractive myth. It was a myth you could easily inhabit.
Matt Haig
#13. In my experience nobody gets to lead a totally charmed existence. Nobody escapes the pitfalls of being a human being. It's what seperates us from the zebras. Or that's my theory anyway
Sarah-Kate Lynch
#14. You are all spirits. It is not that you "have" a spirit. To have a spirit implies that you are spirit and that you are also something else. Human beings are spirits. Being a human being is one of the ways of being a spirit.
Adi Da
#15. Being a human being without forgiveness is like being a guitarist without fingers or being the diva without a tongue.
Jimmy Santiago Baca
#17. Being a human means waking up in this world, where we all have to work and slog to put food on the table.
Jason Mraz
#18. That's the most pathetic part of being a human, the emotions you don't ask for or want, they just rush you anyway.
Tarryn Fisher
#19. We are always works in progress. You will hurt people you love, and help people you detest. This is called being a human and it happens to everyone.
Adam Savage
#20. The way I was taught, being black was a plus, always. Being a human being, being in America, and being black, all three were the greatest things that could happen to you. The combination was unbeatable.
Leontyne Price
#21. I get more out of life just being myself, by just being a human being. Not by being a rock star, not by being whatever. Sometimes I act like a jerk, but I think people respect me for being myself. That's the ultimate thing about the Smashing Pumpkins.
Billy Corgan
#22. Laws must be efficaciously deterrent in nature, and in grave offences where offenders trespass the precincts of being a human, and commit crimes against even babies/infants/children; solely for beastly gratification, deserve no mercy.
Henrietta Newton Martin Legal Consultant
#23. I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere ... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me.
Annie Lennox
#24. Disquietude that springs from the fundamental nature of being a human being is vaster and more encompassing than depression, which has a cause and therefore a cure.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#25. Everybody enjoys the freedom he deserves, which is measured by the stature and dignity of his person or by his function, and not by the abstract and elementary fact of merely being a 'human being' or a 'citizen'.
Julius Evola
#26. I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?
Kate Bush
#27. I think the whole experience of being a human being on the planet is such a mystery, to be honest. Trying to figure out one's purpose and [asking] "What is it all about?"
Annie Lennox
#28. Give the woman what she wants and maybe her rebellion will subside and she will get down to the business of being a human incubator!
Natasha Anders
#29. I've never really understood national pride, or even ethnic pride. It should be more about pride at being a human and living on this planet with fellow humans surely, let's widen the parameters a bit
Robert Breeze
#30. One of the sources of pride in being a human being is the ability to bear present frustrations in the interests of longer purposes.
Helen Lynd
#31. This is the psychosis of being a human being - the things that we deal with on a day-to-day basis that make us who we are and that sometimes we have to get on the couch and talk out.
Nate Parker
#32. My family had all kinds of complications in relationships. I would like to meet the person who did not. Since when is being absolutely perfect what being a human is? What do we gain from that?
Anthony Edwards
#33. Just being a human being, I've realized that before every big problem you create for yourself, before every huge mess you have to clean up, there was a crucial moment where you could've just said no.
Taylor Swift
#34. I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being.
Cameron Diaz
#35. I love being a human being, my time and experience here has become even more treasured since I turned to acting.
James Preston Rogers
#36. I don't consider myself specifically political, you know? I think of working as an actor as being a human thing. The concerns I have that fall into politics are human concerns.
Sean Penn
#37. Everything in this country [the US] has got to be good looks and unlined faces and thin bodies and people running around in skirts slit up to their ass. It has nothing to do with thinking or with being a human being. There is life in mature people; it's not all over at 24½.
Lauren Bacall
#38. I have always been taught to be proud of being Latina, proud of being Mexican, and I was. I was probably more proud of being a "label" than of being a human being, that's the way most of us were taught.
Erin Gruwell
#39. I'm trying to learn something about making a balance between the inner life and the outer life. I wouldn't write if I didn't need to be making those discoveries, if I didn't feel the perpetual ignorance of being a human being.
Alison Hawthorne Deming
#40. I am a passionate believer that comedy is a way of tackling some of the most dark and difficult aspects of being a human being.
Stephen Mangan
#41. We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many of those experiments, the crew members are human guinea pigs, which is fine; that's part of my job. I don't mind being a human guinea pig.
John L. Phillips
#42. Life's only law is change. Everything is continuously changing, evolving and developing. Hindus say that it takes 840 million lives to become a human being, which emphasises the precious gift of being a human being.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#43. We all experience 'soul moments' in life-when we see a magnificent sunrise, hear the call of the loon, see the wrinkles in our mother's hands, or smell the sweetness of a baby. During these moments, our body, as well as our brain, resonates as we experience the glory of being a human being.
Marion Woodman
#45. Art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.
Martin Firrell
#46. I wanted to show life and to see ourselves and our behaviour through an outsider's eye ... from the point of view of someone who knows nothing about being a human being ... He doesn't have the feelings that the rest of us do.
Jeff Lindsay
#47. Being young is wonderful. But one of the secrets of being a human individual - a mature human individual shall we put it rather grandly - is that you can see this desire in perspective.
Clive James
#48. It's just a natural part of being a social creature and being a human being.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#49. We all think that an exception is going to be made in our case and were going to live forever. Being a human is actually arriving at the understanding that thats not going to be. Story is there to remind us that its just OK.
Ken Burns
#50. Being a human is a great power. One can obtain everything. However, it is the greed that harasses him.
Dada Bhagwan
#51. He plays the same game, but for the first time in his life he is truly playing, rather than working, being a human, and this is a vast distinction realized by few.
Chris Matakas
#52. People look at you and see that you've made it, but sometimes they forget that it took you years of being a human being.
Cristina Saralegui
#54. I don't like the idea of being a human being, existing, talking to my friends, and having these real human conversations, and then getting to work on a sitcom and turning that part of my brain off.
Jerrod Carmichael
#55. Being a vampire is no more fun than being a human I assure you.
Cyma Rizwaan Khan
#56. I thought: this is how you make a human being. A human being is beautiful and sick. A human being glitters and starves.
Catherynne M Valente
#57. I still feel insecure all the time. I feel like it's just a part of being a human being ... I just learned normal is very boring.
Kylie Jenner
#58. One of the great gifts of being a human being is that you can get rid of yourself and enter into the oneness of music.
Ray Manzarek
#59. This lack of translation is a mental handicap that comes with being a human; and we will only start to attain wisdom or rationality when we make an effort to overcome and break through it.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#60. Because of an innocent misunderstanding you think that you are a human being in the relative world seeking the experience of oneness, but actually you are the One expressing itself as the experience of being a human being.
Adyashanti
#61. I'm gonna make music, and I'm gonna capture every aspect of being a human being. That's really all I'm trying to do. I think that artists and pop culture identities are used to simplify what it means to be a human and pigeon-hole people into looking up to one role model.
Mac Miller
#62. We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.
Walter Gilbert
#63. Being a human being is lost. For 120 shows, the one that goes bad is the one that people will talk about.
Ryan Adams
#64. What's interesting about science is that we're constantly discovering new things about the universe, about ourselves, about our bodies, about diseases, about the possibilities of the future. It's amazing. Science is one of the coolest things about being a human being - without a doubt.
Joe Rogan
#65. The goal is not writing. The goal is being a human being writing.
Barry B. Longyear
#66. Consciousness-Based Education is just plugging us all into the beautiful, eternal field within, and then watching things get better, which is what happens. It's a field of infinite, unbounded peace within every human being, and when you experience it, you enliven that peace.
David Lynch
#67. I was a little bit of a slob who was sort of surrounded by dirty laundry. I can trace the exact moment that I became a tidy human being, and that moment was the day my son Sam was born.
Tim Daly
#69. A human being is like a television set with millions of channels ... We cannot let just one channel dominate us. We have the seed of everything in us, and we have to recover our own sovereignty.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#70. An accent like mine and a face like mine, I think a lot of the time it's easy for casting directors to just stick me in as a bad boy, but 'Being Human' took a risk on me - bless 'em - and I'm not that bad boy no more.
Michael Socha
#71. The man who recognizes the truth of any human relation and neglects the duty involved is not a true man.... A man may be aware of the highest truths of many things, and yet not be a true man, inasmuch as the essentials of manhood are not his aim: he has not come into the flower of his own being.
George MacDonald
#72. So I'm sorry, I'm going to continue to talk to the people, because I do believe that if they get to know you and what you are as a human being, they can more appreciate what you are as a performer.
Mel Torme
#73. E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.
Jeff Bezos
#74. My mind reeling with the concept that a human being, a man, could feel pride over sodomizing another man,
Bret Easton Ellis
#75. There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.
Sam Peckinpah
#76. Wine is an escape from grief,
a slip into sleep,
a cool forgetting of the hot pains of day.
What better cure for being human?
Euripides
#77. I'm not good at living in the grim places ... when we did Gatsby, I lived in Claridges, that's where I wanted to live. I can't live in grimness and then go play a classy human being.
Bruce Dern
#78. What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into concepts ...
Anton Webern
#79. Any human being is really good at certain things. The problem is that the things you're good at come naturally. And since most people are pretty modest instead of an arrogant S.O.B. like me, what comes naturally, you don't see as a special skill. It's just you. It's what you've always done.
Stephen Jay Gould
#80. The human being is like a light bulb. If a human being is super stressed, depressed and filled with negativity, this is what that human being radiates out into the world.
David Lynch
#81. [L]et my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes, and see if he does not find himself suddenly not a compact human being at all, but only a consciousness on a sea of sound and touch ...
Shirley Jackson
#82. Be prudent, diligent, temperate and discreet. Remember that every human being has a claim upon your kind offices.
Albert Pike
#84. He who makes a beast out of himself removes himself from the pain of being human
Samuel Johnson
#85. No human being believes that any other human being has a right to be in bed when he himself is up.
Robert Lynd
#86. I do not see why we should not be as just to an ant as to a human being.
Charles Kingsley
#87. To sit down on a chair and read my books with all my friends at school is my right. To see each and every human being with a smile of happiness is my wish. I am Malala. My world has changed but I have not.
Malala Yousafzai
#88. The biggest secret of self-esteem is this: Begin to appreciate other people more; show respect for any human being merely because he is a child of God and therefore a thing of value.
Maxwell Maltz
#89. People should be nice to you, Leonard. You're a human being. You should expect people to be nice.
Matthew Quick
#90. There is nobody that I know who believes that Bank of America is a human being who should be entitled for the same constitutional rights that the people of our country are.
Bernie Sanders
#91. I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.
Abraham Lincoln
#92. At midlife, you're pregnant with the best self you can be - someone who has learned enough from both successes and failures to add up to a fine human being.
Marianne Williamson
#93. Warhol was a prime example of a schizoid person. Maybe he had Asperger's, or maybe he was just an amorous human being on earth.
Jim Shaw
#94. The physiological effects of an electrocution are severe and painful. Besides launching the body into violent convulsions, the electrocution of a human being causes massive destruction throughout the body.
Yasmin Tirado-Chiodini
#95. I have different hats; I'm a mother, I'm a woman, I'm a human being, I'm an artist and hopefully I'm an advocate. All of those plates are things I spin all the time.
Annie Lennox
#96. Each human being has the right to two blessings: getting things right and getting things wrong. In the latter case, there will always be a kind of apprenticeship that will lead him back to the right path.
Paulo Coelho
#97. She starts to cry. 'It's just so terrible,' she says.
'Which part?,' I ask.
'Being human.
A.M. Homes
#98. I guess what I always found funny was the human condition. There is a certain comedy and pathos to trouble and accidents. Like, when a driver has parked his car crookedly and then wonders why he has the bad luck of being hit.
John Prine
#99. Life is a perspective and for me, if a human being has access to school, clean water, food, proper health care, that is the basis of human rights.
Gelila Bekele
#100. There's so much that I can give as a human being - and I know that.
La India
