Human Finitude Quotes

#1. The only answer to the question of the meaning of life has to begin from the fact of our human finitude, of our vulnerability and our fallibility.

Simon Critchley

#2. People can certainly be creative when they're under the gun, but only when they're able to focus on the work.

Teresa Amabile

#3. We are beings who seek the infinity of beauty over the finitude of time.

J.M. Campos

#4. In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.

Tony Blair

#5. Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.

Leigh Hunt

#6. Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.

Horace

#7. I can be a little prickly when people make assumptions about women.

Michael Pryor

#8. I want to cover all areas that can be depicted visually. This ranges from fairytales to attempts to enter the abstract and view oneself as a social outcast or someone struggling to stay alive.

Gunter Brus

#9. As always, the illusion of self-transcendence is far more facile and available than self-transcendence itself: in the vast majority of cases what human consciousness opens up to is merely a more encompassing form of finitude (another captivating illusion or delusion).

Kenny Smith

#10. History is a strange experience. The world is quite small now; but history is large and deep. Sometimes you can go much farther by sitting in your own home and reading a book of history, than by getting onto a ship or an airplane and traveling a thousand miles.

Gilbert Highet

#11. Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.

George Bernard Shaw

#12. You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.

Irwin Shaw

#13. For death and the disease that is its harbinger are the most brutal reminders of the radical finitude of human existence.

Jeffrey P. Bishop

#14. Even if your family isn't quite there for you, find the people that support you and hang on to those people and try to let go of those that try to take you down.

Alicia Keys