Human Being Quotes

#1. In medicine as well as in romantic poetry, it is the heart that is the center and controlling mechanics of life. If the heart stops, life stops. The loss of sight doesn't not mean death. Yet for ages, the eyes was believed to contain a human being's vital essence - a not wholly irrational belief.

Henry Grunwald

#2. A human being should learn to make decisions independently in order to achieve goals efficiently

Sunday Adelaja

#3. Every human being has an impact on another.

Patch Adams

#4. I had spent many days hungry; had slept on railway stations at times because I did not have money to pay for a hotel room ... there were moments when I felt I had compromised my dignity as a human being and as an actor.

Anupam Kher

#5. Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespear and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.

George Bernard Shaw

#6. HIV is not what defines me. You get that? It is not what defines me. I am not my disease. I am a human being. A guy

J.H. Trumble

#7. My goal is to be remembered as a human being and as a great performer.

Bobby Darin

#8. To rush headlong into the comforting darkness of selfhood as a reborn human being, or even as beast, an unhappy ghost, a denizen of hell. Anything rather than the burning brightness of unmitigated Reality.

Aldous Huxley

#9. Under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being.

Robert Anton Wilson

#10. My job as a human being as well as a writer is to feel as thoroughly as possible the experience that I am part of, and then press it a little further.

Jane Hirshfield

#11. The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

#12. Nothing smelled worse than the death of another human being. Not horses or cattle or rotten whales washed onto a beach. Human death was the smell of what hid in the future, waiting for you.

Robert Crais

#13. If you are a woman, reading my tale, learn to fight for your rights and the respect you deserve as a human being. But, if you are a man, reading my tale, learn to respect women and, likewise, advocate for them.

Yanan Melo

#14. Sometimes it's better to live through someone's work than the person themselves, and to realise that every human being is flawed, but through art they can be perfect.

Emily Haines

#15. The moral qualities are more apt to grow when a human being is useful, and they increase in the woman who helps to support the family rather than in the one who gives herself to idleness and fashionable frivolities.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#16. I stare at the table for a moment, lost in thoughts of what it will be like to hold a human being that I made in my hands. I can write a song and I can play it until my fingers bleed, but I can't carry music in my hands. I can't touch it or smell it. I can't give it my heart.

Cassia Leo

#17. I think my thinking with my heart
I act with my thinking from my heart
but I'm just a human being with a heart and not a rational thinker

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#18. I just wish he didn't have the power to get to me." "I know, but you're a human being Hunter, and you have feelings. What would be weak is if you didn't.

Melissa Brayden

#19. Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

Wayne Dyer

#20. As a human being, I'm work in process.

John Lydon

#21. Being easily freaked out comes with its own special skill set: you develop subtle tricks to work around it, make sure people don't notice. Pretty soon, if you're a fast learner, you can get through the day looking almost exactly like a normal human being.

Tana French

#22. Success in business is important. Success as a human being with values, character, kindness, and love is much more important.

Debasish Mridha

#23. St. Augustine referred to the restlessness in every human being that is satisfied only in God.

Betty Malz

#24. The man's father is a wonderful human being. I think this guy is a loser.

Harry Reid

#25. Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.

Novalis

#26. Do you love yourself? The test is simple. Do you look at others and see anything besides another beautiful human being? Do you see somebody who is more beautiful or less beautiful than you? If so, look down a little deeper and ask yourself why. It may be painful. The whys usually are. Do it anyway.

Dan Pearce

#27. The goal is not writing. The goal is being a human being writing.

Barry B. Longyear

#28. Every human being is a mixture of light and darkness, trust and fear, love and hate.

Jean Vanier

#29. The human being is constantly torn from calm and peace of simple existence by two things; wanting what you don't have, or disliking what you have.

Paul Fleischman

#30. What we call our joy, God calls our perfection. Each human being has come into the world with the message of perfection. Each human being will one day realize the highest Truth. Each human being is destined to be fulfilled. It is the birthright of our soul.

Sri Chinmoy

#31. What worries me though, is that after all those victories people don't see me as a human being anymore. I am not a machine, I have a heart beating in my chest -not an engine, there's blood in my veins- not oil. I know pain and fatigue. I can lose but I will strive to win everything.

Evgeni Plushenko

#32. Getting married and really digging in with another human being can point out your greatest strengths and your greatest weaknesses.

Mat Kearney

#33. Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter lovingly.

Viktor E. Frankl

#34. America is a new kind of society that produces a new kind of human being. That human being - confident, self-reliant, tolerant, generous, future-oriented - is a vast improvement over the wretched, servile, fatalistic and intolerant human being that traditional societies have always produced.

Dinesh D'Souza

#35. You do not take your place in your father's tent, letting men make your decisions. You ride as a man, you fight as a man, and you think as a man - " "I think as a human being," she retorted hotly. "Men don't think any differently from women - they just make more noise about being able to." As

Tamora Pierce

#36. Success as a woman has changed me. That's what I feel is the first thing. When I feel like a successful woman as a rounded human being, then it feeds my work in a broader way so it becomes more interesting.

Jacqueline Bisset

#37. Again, as a gay man I look at that and say there's a hopelessness that surrounds it, but as a human being I look at it and say 'Why? Where's this disparity coming from, and why can't we as a culture and society dig deeper to examine that?' We're terrified of facing ourselves.

Zachary Quinto

#38. I'm a guy desperately in need of buffers. I have big feelings, big reactions, big emotions. All the things that serve me as an artist, but challenge me as a socially-responsible human being.

Kurt Sutter

#39. If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense. I am just one human being.

Dalai Lama

#40. I want to be in a position where I can function as a human being.

Kate Bush

#41. if it comes to a choice between being a good soldier and a good human being -- try to be a good human being".

Anton Myrer

#42. If human beings pretend to be God, then forget about democracy. If they understand that no human being can represent God, then sure.

Khaled Abou El Fadl

#43. Every human being makes mistakes.

Ian Smith

#44. Nothing in this world, is completely new. That's why we study history and compare today, with the past. In the end, every human being, has the same way of thinking.

Da Xia

#45. As the Holy One of Israel, the foretold Messiah of the Hebrew prophets, Jesus was the exemplary Jew of all Jews, the Rabbi of all rabbis, the Lord of all lords, the King of all kings, and the Human Being of all human beings.

James Mikolajczyk

#46. Bringing a baby into the world is something I've always wanted, and now I'm completely ready for my life to start revolving around another human being.

Matthew McConaughey

#47. About the nature of human beings. I discovered that confronted by temptation, we will always fall. Given the right circumstances, every human being on this earth would be willing to commit evil.

Paulo Coelho

#48. I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was ... a human being.

Sidney Poitier

#49. The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher of distinction, the creator of differences.

Teresa De Lauretis

#50. The human MIND seems to work best in the presence of reality. The brain that contains the problem probably also contains the solution. IF the conditions are right, the huge intelligence of the human being surfaces. IDEAS seem to come from nowhere & sometimes STUN US.

Nancy Kline

#51. Every human being is ... equally unfree, that is, we ... create out of freedom, a prison ...

Otto Rank

#52. Whatever you do in your life, try to become a kind, and wise human being.

Nawang Khechog

#53. One's true worth as a human being is not a matter of outward appearance or title, but derives rather from the breadth of one's spirit. Everything comes down to faith and conviction. It is what is in one's heart, and the substance of one's actions that count.

Daisaku Ikeda

#54. Presley brought an excitement to singing, in part because rock and roll was greeted as his invention, but for other reasons not so widely reflected on: Elvis Presley had the most beautiful singing voice of any human being on earth.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#55. It was like she'd been deserted on an island, hadn't seen another human being in ten years and was beside herself with joy that she finally had more than a coconut to talk to.

Kristen Ashley

#56. You have to maintain who you are as a person and stay true to yourself - that's my biggest moral as a human being, as well as a very self-deprecating sense of humor.

Josh Hutcherson

#57. When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself in a state that could be called happiness, a state of contentment and peace of mind in which virtue is its own reward.

Immanuel Kant

#58. Religion was created by insecure men to oppress women. Religion is the basis of all political ideas and it exempts the human being to find the "I" in them.

Mutabaruka

#59. Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation."
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.

Charlotte Bronte

#60. In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Albert Schweitzer

#61. Respect is more than giving consideration of one's feelings. It is showing common courtesy for another human being.

Tom Baker

#62. I've learned that every human being, with or without disabilities, needs to strive to do their best, and by striving for happiness you will arrive at happiness. For us, you see, having autism is normal - so we can't know for sure what your "normal" is even like.

Naoki Higashida

#63. Namaste is a term that finds its origin in India means the God in me salutes the God in you. This means that every human being has a God in her or him. I wonder where in time we forgot this wisdom and started treating fellow human beings as untouchables and backward classes.

Jeroninio Almeida

#64. Man is the "ethical animal" ethical in potentiality even if, unfortunately, not in actuality. His capacity for ethical judgment like freedom, reason and the other unique characteristics of the human being is based upon his consciousness of himself.

Rollo May

#65. Before GoPro, if you wanted to have any footage of yourself doing anything, whether it's video or photo, you not only needed a camera, you needed another human being. And if you wanted the footage to be good, you needed that other human being to have skill with the camera.

Nick Woodman

#66. Any human being exists only as a member of the wider community of life, air, water, and soil. We have no existence apart from the living earth. We are Earth. What we do to Earth, we do to our self.

Michael Dowd

#67. I think Willim Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank though, that's not saying much. We are impossibly conceited animals, and actually dumb as heck. Ask any teacher. You don't even have to ask a teacher. Ask anybody. Dogs and cats are smarter than we are.

Kurt Vonnegut

#68. Each human being has his own sexual profile, and should exercise it without guilt - provided he does not oblige others to exercise it with him.

Paulo Coelho

#69. The most depraved type of human being ... (is) the man without a purpose.

Ayn Rand

#70. I want to believe that in any relational moment a person understands that the other person in front of them is just another human being.

Claudia Rankine

#71. Life was, in fact, cheap.
If life was such a glorious, magnificent, wonderful thing, then it wouldn't be so easy to take it away.
If life was a great gift, then he wouldn't be able to kill a fellow human being with one hand ...

Keith R.A. DeCandido

#72. They did go on so, don't you think, those Victorian poets, they took themselves so horribly seriously?' he said, pushing the lift button, summoning it from the depths. As it creaked up, Blackadder said, 'That's not the worst thing a human being can do, take himself seriously.

A.S. Byatt

#73. I mention her name and the old pain returns. Forget her, you say? How can you forget a living human being?

Sholem Aleichem

#74. The lower a human being descends, the more asleep and inhumane he becomes. Those beings that lack Compassion, Love, and Peace are the true targets of the ego system ...

Jacqueline Ripstein

#75. How could you be so naive as to tell a human being the truth? Men live by embedding themselves in ongoing systems of illusion. Religion. Patriotism. Economics. Fashion. That sort of thing. If you wish to gain the favor of the two-legged ilk, you must learn to fabricate as wholeheartedly as they do.

Tom Robbins

#76. There is something beautiful and permanent in the world, and that is the love that a person can have for another human being.

Walton Goggins

#77. Instead of an unhinged lunatic you may glimpse a punctured soul-a mere human being like you.

Shannon Love

#78. A human being, as I've said before, gets used to anything.

Nando Parrado

#79. I think the biggest thing - and this I think is true of songs but also of movies and books and art in general - is when you have this moment where you hear a song or whatever and you say, "Hey, I've felt that exact way as a human being," and there's no easy way to describe it.

Craig Finn

#80. Prejudice and bigotry are brought down ... by the sheer force of determination of individuals to succeed and the refusal of a human being to let prejudice define the parameters of the possible.

Condoleezza Rice

#81. Success doesn't measure a human being, effort does.

Adam M. Grant

#82. The single best machine to measure trust is a human being. We haven't figured out a metric that works better than our own sort of, like, 'There's something fishy about you.'

Simon Sinek

#83. We treat sex so casually and use it for everything but what it is-which is ultimately making another human being with thoughts and feelings and rights.

Lisa Kudrow

#84. My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.

Ziggy Marley

#85. I walked around the block twice, passed 200 people and failed to see a human being.

Charles Bukowski

#86. If it weren't for the message of mercy and pity in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, I wouldn't want to be a human being. I would just as soon be a rattlesnake.

Kurt Vonnegut

#87. I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

Thornton Wilder

#88. The destiny of every human being is decided by what goes on inside his skull when confronted by what goes on outside his skull.

Eric Berne

#89. He sat there studiously bent over his work (Bill saw him), which lay in a slant of crisp white winterlight, his face sober and absorbed, knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine.

Stephen King

#90. Wars exist because the divine essence
of each human being are not recognzed.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#91. When your love is pure or spiritual, there is no demand, no expectation. There is only the sweetest feeling of spontaneous oneness with the human being or beings concerned.

Sri Chinmoy

#92. Mysticism occurs whenever a human being sees the separation between the natural and the supernatural, between the temporal and the eternal, as overcome.

Albert Schweitzer

#93. Peace is what every human being is craving for, and it can be brought about by humanity through the child.

Maria Montessori

#94. It is not wrong to strive to be better than a fellow human being. Nor is it wrong to desire to be better or even to feel like oneself is better than a fellow human being. What is wrong is to gloat in one's own virtue. Therefore, gloating in one's own virtue is not virtuous.

Christopher Jones

#95. Freedom - or mukti or moksha - is seen as the natural longing in every human being and our ultimate destination.

Sadhguru

#96. In the seventeenth century, it was held by some that inside a human sperm there was a minute human being - a homunculus - that was planted inside the womb. Development consisted of the miniature homunculus enlarging and passing through birth and on to maturity-just like inflating a balloon.

John Tyler Bonner

#97. I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.

George Herbert Palmer

#98. The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.

Pope John Paul II

#99. I don't have to sympathize or empathize with a human being in order to be able to portray them. I mean, some of the greatest roles that actors have been able to play haven't been the most endearing on screen.

Dustin Lance Black

#100. Every human being is a designer

Norman Potter