Top 100 Being Human Quotes
#1. What is private belongs to me alone. What is personal belongs to all of us through the shared experience of being human.
Terry Tempest Williams
#2. Oh, we are in an angsty mood tonight!"
"True, true. And what good does it do? Maybe 'we' think too much, in between bouts of not thinking enough."
"I think you've just written out the recipe for being human.
Mark Rogerson
#3. I don't know what to do," he said. "No harm in that. I've never known what to do," said Rincewind with hollow cheerfulness. "Been completely at a loss my whole life." He hesitated. "I think it's called being human, or something.
Terry Pratchett
#4. Narrative understanding is a large part of the ability to connect with, understand, and have compassion for all of us engaged in learning more about being human.
Leah C. Fowler
#5. Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is always going to engage and compel us. We're involved in a mystery. Poetry uses words to put us in touch with that mystery. We're always going to need it.
Edward Hirsch
#6. Being human is a precious situation, and we shouldn't waste time in useless activities.
Sakyong Mipham
#7. what terrifies me most is how we
foam at the mouth with envy
when others succeed
but sigh in relief
when they are failing
our struggle to
celebrate each other is
what's proven most difficult
in being human
Rupi Kaur
#8. It could go on for years and years,
And has, for centuries,
For being human holds a special grief
Of privacy within the universe
That yearns and waits to be retouched
By someone who can take away
The memory of death.
Herbert Mason
#9. You must think I don't know what's keeping you up at night. You must think we're so different. But I know. Everyone knows despair. Isn't that why people jump off bridges or drown themselves? Anything, really, to escape being human.
V.J. Campilan
#10. If physical mobility is an essential condition of freedom, the bicycle has probably been the greatest single device for achieving what Marx called the full realization of the possibilities of being human invented since Gutenberg, and the only one without obvious drawbacks.
Eric Hobsbawm
#11. Technology has robbed us of everything that made being human fun."
--Aristotle Leary
from Rubicon Harvest
C.W. Kesting
#12. I have never, in all my life, been so odious as to regard myself as 'superior' to any living being, human or animal. I just walked alone - as I have always walked alone.
Edith Sitwell
#14. So, let me get this right...the big whoop about being human is that you get to die?
James Patterson
#16. Oh, you will, some day, just as I'll hurt you too. That makes part of this
whole thing called being human, but to excel it and sincerely forgive the other
faults ... that is what makes a real friendship, what strengthens it.
Leia Kiuski
#17. I don't want you to feel sorry for me. I want you to forgive yourself for being human, just like you would forgive anyone else.
Brenda Hodnett
#18. It's a basic fact about being human that sometimes the self seems to just melt away.
Jonathan Haidt
#19. If You Want to Learn Anything About Being Human , Make a Friendship With New Born Child .
Sushil Singh
#20. What's more important that spiritual life? It seems to me it's the bedrock of everything essential about being human.
Dani Shapiro
#21. People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, 'Nothing can go wrong with them.' We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.
Karen Carpenter
#22. And thought about the female who, despite being human, he was beginning to see as a friend
Anne Bishop
#23. Sang Ly, we are literature-our lives, our hopes, our desires, our despairs, our passions, our strengths, our weaknesses. Stories express our longing not only to make a difference today but to see what is possible for tomorrow. Literature has been called a handbook for the art of being human.
Camron Wright
#24. Consequently, Christian meditation is entirely trinitarian and at the same time entirely human. In order to find God, no one need reject being human personally or socially, but in order to find God all must see the world and themselves in the Holy Spirit as they are in God's sight.
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
#25. God requires that we assist the animals, when they need our help. Each being (human or creature) has the same right of protection.
Francis Of Assisi
#26. Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.
Janet Fitch
#28. Gomers are human beings who have lost what goes into being human beings. They want to die, and we will not let them.
Samuel Shem
#29. The bedrock of 'Being Human' has to be characters. I would hope that even if suddenly we had a huge budget per episode, the foundation of the show, and the thing that actually makes it what it is, is character.
Donald Sumpter
#30. ...much of what the church calls sin is simply being human.
Ursula Hegi
#31. When we make friends then we change from being animals to being human.
Stephen Richards
#32. There is a certain way of being human that is my way. I am called upon to live my life in this way, and not in imitation of anyone else's life. But this notion gives a new importance to being true to myself. If I am not, I miss the point of my life; I miss what being human is for me.
Charles Taylor
#33. Being human means having power; specifically, the power to accomplish whatever we want.
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
#34. I was wrong to try and impose something of my humanity on you, when being human never did me any good
Sara Baume
#35. Momentary pleasures of hedonism are distinct from deeper and more lasting satisfaction; and in order to achieve such satisfaction, we need to reflect on who we are and what our lives are for. We cannot be fully human without thinking about what being human means.
Eva Hoffman
#36. The main business of humanity is to do a good job of being human beings," said Paul, "not to serve as appendages to machines, institutions, and systems.
Kurt Vonnegut
#37. There's a lot of kids who look up to me, and that's humbling. Because being human, I don't want to fail them. But being human, I will. That's why it's so important to have your faith put in something that won't fail you. And that means the Son of God's kingdom.
Si Robertson
#38. Part of being human is being on the verge of disgrace.
John Updike
#39. I always think to myself, being human, having crushes now, what is it about that person that I really want? What do they represent? More freedom? Someone to care for me more? It's never really about the person.
Darcey Steinke
#40. Being human, we can only receive infinite truth in finite doses
Norman Grubb
#41. Perhaps everything you say is true and these are the death throes of the human race, but even if that was true, I would not lose faith. There must be hope, and I must fight for my Emperor against Chaos and it's servants.
That is insanity.
Wrong, it's being human.
Ben Counter
#42. Can't blame a man for being human when human is all he'll ever be!
Eric Jerome Dickey
#43. How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire.
Rumi
#44. I've found many truths in my social experiences. I thought being alive and being human was all the qualification you need to be a somebody but you need, tangible, inanimate and lifeless things to have your existence validated by other mortals ... We need lifeless things to make our lives valuable.
Crystal Evans
#45. I've watched two-year-old humans with interest for centuries. They're miserable. They rush about, fall down, and scream almost constantly. They hate being human! They know already that it's some sort of dirty trick.
Anne Rice
#46. The audience will make you feel like a demigod. But when you leave the stage, get back to being human.
David Coverdale
#47. Love is not a justification for war. Anyone who uses it as such doesn't know squat about being human.
Cecily White
#48. Interpretation is a task that we repeatedly have to take up and start again from the beginning, Sisyphus-like. But, as Camus said, we must always imagine Sisyphus happy, and this is not so difficult when it's a matter of texts that reveal important truths about being human.
George Pattison
#49. The first noble truth says simply that it's part of being human to feel discomfort.
Pema Chodron
#50. Failure is part of being human, and it is definitely part of being married.
Ada Calhoun
#51. Mastery of life is not a question of control, but of finding a balance between human and being ... Human is form. Being is formless. Human and Being are not separate but interwoven.
Eckhart Tolle
#52. If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination.
Devdutt Pattanaik
#53. Being human in the digital world is about building a digital world for humans.
Andrew Keen
#54. Only you can take responsibility for your happiness..but you can't do it alone. It's the great paradox of being human.
Simon Sinek
#55. But in my growth and development, I knew I wanted more. And more. Oh, God. So much more. It's what being human is all about.
James Lusarde
#56. Things can turn out differently Apollo. That's the nice thing about being human. We only have one life, but we can choose what kind of story it's going to be.
Rick Riordan
#57. But life isn't about learning to forgive those who have hurt you or forgetting your past. It's about learning to forgive yourself for being human and making mistakes.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#58. Opera is full of trappings that make us go away from being human. You can't let them do that. You can't walk like you're in an opera! You have to make it real. You have to just be there.
Charles Nelson Reilly
#59. I'd love to pop back into 'Being Human' as Adam. I love the character so much. I've never really played a character like that. I'm always playing the geek, so to play a kid who is very energetic when he wants to be, and who is always trying to get the girls, was really cool.
Craig Roberts
#60. The minute my child was born, I was reborn as a feminist. It's so incredible what women can do ... birthing naturally, as most women do around the globe, is a superhuman act. You leave behind the comforts of being human and plunge back into being an animal ...
Ani DiFranco
#61. The Buddha's teaching leads us to the realization that we must always strive to harm no sentient being, human or nonhuman, whether or not it is in our selfish interest to do so.
Norm Phelps
#62. Being human was a lot more difficult than it looked. Demon was easy. Demon was simple. Human was ... terrifying. Muse
Pippa DaCosta
#63. This is the most exciting part of being human. It is using our brains in the highest way. Otherwise we are just healthy animals
Edwin Land
#64. We always find it difficult to forgive our heroes for being human.
Frances Hardinge
#65. Being human can be so dispiriting. It is a real stretch for me a lot of the time.
Anne Lamott
#66. However, sexual anorexics do have a definite profile that separates them from the larger population of those having difficulty being sexual: They are often extremely competent people who are committed to doing things very well and have a fear of making mistakes and being human.
Patrick J. Carnes
#67. We sense that 'normal' isn't coming back, that we are being born into a new normal: a new kind of society, a new relationship to the earth, a new experience of being human.
Charles Eisenstein
#68. The essence of being human is being creative.
Joel Garreau
#69. There will be no more 'them and us', only us, sharing struggles and challenges as part of being human.
Laurie Davidson
#70. If you have superpowers and no one can actually cause you any physical harm, then everything has to be very thought-through. You almost have to fake at being human.
Henry Cavill
#71. This new form of dialogue that is bringing us to the art to which I have dedicated my life, is rooted in the deepest and most beautiful part of being human.
Alicia Alonso
#72. Everything has a beginning and an end. Life is just a cycle of starts and stops. There are ends we don't desire, but they're inevitable, we have to face them. It's what being human is all about.
Jet Black
#73. To have an opportunity to get in front of a camera every single day is just priceless because it gets you closer and closer to being less self-consciousness in front of it and really being human and really making choices and standing by them.
Katie Lowes
#74. Along with aging comes life experience, so in every way that is consistent with even being human, Leia has changed.
Carrie Fisher
#76. This, for Homer, is the tragedy of being human: to desire freedom, and be tortured by a sense of autonomy, and yet be imprisoned by forces beyond our control.
Kenan Malik
#77. I've actually been in situations where I've turned down a lot of money to continue on, in certain shows, or to do something that would have lasted years when I didn't even like it. I didn't want to be in any one spot for years, unless I really believed in it, and I really believe in 'Being Human.'
Samuel Witwer
#78. The only bearable thing about being human is that you can change, the second you feel like. Get it through your head that you changed, and cut yourself some slack before you fucking choke to death from all the apologies in your throat.
C.M. McKenna
#79. Burnout is what happens when you try to avoid being human for too long.
Michael Gungor
#80. Manfred used to be a flock of pigeons
literally, his exocortex dispersed among a passel of bird brains, pecking at brightly colored facts, shitting semidigested conclusions. Being human again feels inexplicably odd. (331)
Charles Stross
#81. The imagination made us human, but being human, becoming more human, is a greater burden than we imagined. We have no choice but to imagine ourselves more human than we are.
Wright Morris
#82. She, being human, could not resist the satisfaction of pouring even more poison into her brother's heart by exaggerating the calamity, even though she loved him sincerely and with compassion.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#83. Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud.
Rosa Luxemburg
#84. The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life.
Stephen Levine
#85. The impossibility of being human all too human this breathing in and out out and in these punks these cowards these champions these mad dogs of glory moving this little bit of light toward us impossibly.
Charles Bukowski
#86. If you don't let me go, you won't feel quite so human anymore. Being human isn't about whether you fit in or look like the rest of us. It's about who you are and what you're willing to do or not do.
Susan Ee
#87. Being human means losing everything we love best in the world," she murmured as she released me. "But would you ask to be anything else?
Alice Hoffman
#88. Part of the job of being human is to consistently underestimate our effect on other people ...
Lucy Grealy
#90. Good taste has everything to do with being cultured and being refined, and if art has to do with anything, it has to do with being human.
Rich Mullins
#92. Don't get addicted to being human. This is only temporary.
Robert Monroe
#93. They were upon their great theme: "When I get to be a man!" Being human, though boys, they considered their present estate too commonplace to be dwelt upon. So, when the old men gather, they say: "When I was a boy!" It really is the land of nowadays that we never discover.
Booth Tarkington
#94. Religion is the human attitude towards a sacred order that includes within it all being-human or otherwise-i.e., belief in a cosmos, the meaning of which both includes and transcends man.
Peter L. Berger
#95. Everyone has things they're afraid of. It's part of being human.
Cassandra Clare
#96. A perfectly tuned conversation is a vision of sanity--a ratification of one's way of being human and one's way in the world.
Deborah Tannen
#98. He seemed genuinely astonished. "You admire me?"
"Yes," she said gravely. "All of us do things we regret
that's part of being human. And sometimes, I think, moral quality reveals itself not so much in what we do, but in what we later say about what we have done ...
Alexander McCall Smith
#99. Don't lock yourself away from those who care about you because you think you'll hurt them or they'll hurt you. What point is there in being human if you don't let yourself feel anything?
Sabaa Tahir
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