Top 100 I'm Only Human Quotes
#1. I can fake a smile. I can force a laugh. I can dance and play the part of that's what you ask. Give you all I am. But I am only human. I bleed when I fall down. I'm only human I crash and I break down. Your words in my head. Knives in my heart. You build me up and then I fall apart.
Christina Perri
#2. When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.'
Karl Kraus
#3. I'm only human, and I have no doubt Spock will outlive me by many years. I can only hope that, once in a while, when people look at Spock's visage, they might sometimes think of me.
Leonard Nimoy
#4. I'm only human, she told herself. There's not enough room in my heart for everyone.
Tom Perrotta
#5. I'm only human, & inadequacy is what makes us human, & if we was perfect we wdnt have nothin to strive for, so you might as well go on & forgive me pretty baby, cause i'm sorry
Ntozake Shange
#6. I'm telling you lady I'm only human, not looking for impossibility. Just a genuine woman with sincerity.
Buju Banton
#7. I think that when you're in the public eye, you automatically become a role model, because people are reading about you and looking at pictures of stuff you've done. But, you know, no one's perfect, everyone makes mistakes. I have made mistakes and I will make mistakes. I'm only human.
Dakota Fanning
#8. I maybe made some mistakes, but I'm only human.
Eminem
#9. I'm only human, and therefore, there's a part of me that's waiting for people to say, 'Enough of you!'
Jim Parsons
#10. If I have something to apologize, I want to be the first one to step up and make that apology. I don't want anyone to broker it for me. I don't want anyone to take the hit for me. If I have anything to apologize for, I'm only human. I'm prone to making mistakes.
Michelle Shocked
#11. Oh, you know I'm only human;
I bend and fall and break
You cut me and I bleed
I'm a mess for you to make
So forget the words and give me deeds
My heart was yours to take.
Emery Lord
#13. Mistakes, I know I've made a few. But I'm only human, you've made mistakes, too.
Smokey Robinson
#15. But they told me a man should be faithful, and walk when not able, and fight till the end but I'm only Human.
Michael Jackson
#16. I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.
Mark Rothko
#17. But see? Then you got all human on me the other night, and it's official. I'm there, Henry. I'm ... I'm ready for the Henry lifestyle. And I know you've only gotten your toes wet in Lake Justin right now, but I want you to come in, take a swim, and build your house out here, okay?
Amy Lane
#18. I'm more than ever of the opinion that a decent human existence is possible today only on the fringes of society, where one then runs the risk of starving or being stoned to death. In these circumstances, a sense of humor is a great help.
Hannah Arendt
#19. The best thing about religion is that it's so transparently absurd it can't possibly last forever. I'm convinced it will only take a small shift in human consciousness for it to be laughed off the planet, and I hope I'm still around when that happens.
Pat Condell
#20. To be thankful for just being alive...To survive means to win... That only applies to animals, but I'm a human being!
Nobuyuki Fukumoto
#21. Then why can't I bully you into procreating? (Wulf)
See! I'm the only human in history to have Viking yenta of his very own. God, how I wish my father had been a fertile man. (Chris)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#22. Stories are the only thing that I can be bothered with. It's the only way that I can do anything, even if I'm quite useless. It's the only area in being human where I could be a little useful.
Alice Englert
#23. If I'd been born a ghoul, I think I would've killed people. I just happened to be born a human. That's the only reason why I'm allowed to live a moral life.
Sui Ishida
#24. Do I know I'm right? Judgments aren't the same as facts. Instinct is not science. I'm like any other human being, as fallible and as capable of being wrong. I only know what I believe.
Tony Blair
#25. I'm a human garbage can, but I don't like veggies unless they have Velveeta cheese on top. And forget crunchy broccoli and carrots. I like 'em soggy, soft and wilted. The nutrients have probably gone away, but that's the only way I can eat them.
Sherri Shepherd
#26. When I am with a group of human beings committed to hanging in there through both the agony and the joy of community, I have a dim sense that I am participating in a phenomenon for which there is only one word ... "glory."
M. Scott Peck
#27. I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive.
Chaim Potok
#29. The only thing I'm nervous about is talking to guests like human beings, because all of my interviews so far have been attacking people. I have a genuine concern about sitting across from an actor whose movies I obviously haven't seen.
John Oliver
#30. Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You can only go forward by making mistakes.
Alexander McQueen
#31. I will not join the rat race because I'm not a rat. And I will not blindly follow a specific faith because I'm not a bat. The only race I'll take part in is for humans being humane. It's called the human race, and sadly it's got the least participants.
Suzy Kassem
#32. I have received hostile voice mail messages and e-mails. They are often anonymous, I'm sad to say, as anonymous messages are delivered only by very low forms of human life, in my opinion.
Ben Brantley
#33. Only until all human beings begin to recognize themselves as human beings will prejudice be gone forever. People ask me what race I am, but there is no such thing as race. I just answer: "I'm a member of the human race.
Amelia Boynton Robinson
#34. Life is a constellation, the individual moments in our lives seem so pointless sometimes; but when you look at the whole picture, you can see that those little moments formed memories.
Alex Rogers
#35. I'm just saying
you can't prevent other people from disappointing you. It's bound to happen at some point. We're all only human. What you can do is decide how you're going to deal with it.
Sara Shepard
#36. I think it's really important that I'm not the only model in the world that goes through personal problems. People forget that we're human. We don't get to call in sick. You have to go and put on a smile. Every single day is a first impression, so you can't have a bummed-out day.
Gigi Hadid
#37. I wonder sometimes if I'm the only one spending my life making the same mistake over and over again or if that's simply human. Do we all tend toward a single besetting sin?
Karen Joy Fowler
#38. I'm not a techno-determinist. I believe we need to improve our existing human resources, and technology can only be a complement.
Shashi Tharoor
#39. My grandfather pioneered exploration of what he called 'our water planet,' then my father sought to understand the human connection, and now, as part of the third generation, I'm dedicated to not only raising awareness but also to empowering people to take action.
Philippe Cousteau Jr.
#40. Black women, white women- all of them. I'm colorblind. I don't know the difference. I only know you're a human being and you're my children.
Moms Mabley
#41. I find it impossible to experience either pride or shame over accidents of genetics in which I had no active part. I'm not necessarily proud to be female. I am not even proud to be human - I only love to be so.
Zadie Smith
#43. To err is human, to forgive divine. (Acheron)
I don't ask for your forgiveness. I don't deserve it. I only ask for a chance to show you now that I'm not the fool I was once. (Styxx)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#44. Happily, I am not human, Parinherm thought, and this is only a simulation.
Iain M. Banks
#45. I say, seeking to diminish the human dignity of another whose only crime is not loving whom you would have him or her love is immoral and an offense to the indomitable determination of the heart.
Charles M. Blow
#46. I'm only interested in stories that are about the crushing of the human heart.
Richard Yates
#47. I know I'm only one human being and I'm only making one tiny contribution and it's nothing more than that.
Halle Berry
#48. 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
#49. To err is human, to forgive is divine ... but I'm only a cardinal and cardinals are human, so rather than forgiving you I'm going to err towards beating you with this stick.
Mark Lawrence
#50. I had to kill or be killed... It was the only way I could survive... But I never enjoyed it like YOU do. Yes, my EYE is different from yours... But never forget... I'm also human.
Park Joong-Ki
#51. Maybe anosognosia, the inability to see your own disability, is the human condition and I'm the only one who doesn't suffer from it.
Karen Joy Fowler
#52. You're my dove,just like the one in the apartment,only much different.You're more special,more free,more human.You're my dove and I'm your keeper.
Emily James Ray
#53. The only reason I'm writing this down is to show how human reason, even very sharp and exact human reason, can get crazily confused and thrown off the track.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#54. I'm romantically inclined. No human being on Earth is not attracted to other people. There is no fairy tale that they only have eyes for you. You just choose to act on it or not.
Ben Folds
#55. Only something as insane as human beings would ever asked themselves if 'I'm good.' You don't find oak trees having existential crisis. 'I feel so rotten about myself. I don't produce as much acorns as the one next to me.'
Adyashanti
#56. These days I settle for feeling only 85 percent sure about most things, most of the time. I believe this is keeping me sane, and I also believe that it's keeping me human. In fact, I'm 85 percent sure of it.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#57. Not only does he hate me, and want to kill me, he no longer believes I'm human. It was less painful being strangled.
Suzanne Collins
#58. I've learned to put great store in my own observations of everyday life, because while laboratory experiments are one way to study human nature, they aren't the only way.
Gretchen Rubin
#59. I call TVs 'erasers' because they have not only wiped away the entire human experience to date, but whatever it was they were wetting their pants about only fifteen minutes earlier.
Kurt Vonnegut
#60. If I were capable of human emotions, tears of joy would have been streaming down my face. You know that feeling you experience upon witnessing the birth of your first child? It was like that, only a thousand times better, because free burritos were involved.
Nathan Rabin
#61. It's not easy to get human beings into orbit. So far only three nations have been able to do that, with all the resources that they put together. And I'm just a little skeptical that that's going to be done by the private sector without making use of what has been done by the government.
Buzz Aldrin
#62. What can be considered human emotions? Surely not only lyricism, sadness, tragedy? Doesn't laughter also have a claim to that lofty title? I want to fight for the legitimate right of laughter in serious music.
Dmitri Shostakovich
#63. We are only living truly human lives just so far as we are labouring to keep God's commandments; no further.
J.I. Packer
#64. Maybe I'm less sensitive to these issues because I see that what people need first is economic security, and only when they have that can they afford to focus on human rights.
Peter Munk
#65. It has been said in this courtroom that only a human being can be free. It seems to me that only someone who wishes for freedom can be free. I wish for freedom.
Isaac Asimov
#66. Of all parties I now see only one party- The Anarchist- which respects human life, and loudly insists upon the abolition of capital punishment, prison torture and punishment of man by man altogether.
Peter Kropotkin
#67. I wonder if to be human is to know that we can't ever banish pain and ugliness from the world, only learn from it and create something beautiful and good out of it ...
Heather Lende
#68. The fact that human beings are now the only animals left on Earth, I confess, seems a confusing sort of victory.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#69. We're all afraid of suffering or agony or torture. It's only natural in some ways. It's only human, let's say. I don't know how natural it is. It probably is conditioning.
SARK
#70. I think language is the most important thing that human beings have ever accomplished, and the only thing that's really going to get us all out of the troubles that we find ourselves in.
Paul Bettany
#71. I believe human beings mark a threshold in the development of the planet, of course, but it is only part of the picture. What Big History can do is show us the nature of our complexity and fragility and the dangers that face us, but it can also show us our power, with collective learning.
David Christian
#72. Sometimes I think the human heart is just a simple shelf. There is only so much you can pile onto it before something falls off an edge and you are left to pick up the pieces.
Jodi Picoult
#73. I can only speak for myself, but when I was growing up in Memphis - and having the Martin Luther King holiday and the moment of pause on April 4th - he was just a statue to me. I wanted to make him a little bit more real to me as a human being.
Katori Hall
#74. The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#75. Yes ... I am a demon. There's no way I could understand my prey, a human's sense of taste. What I understand is ... only the taste of a human's soul.
SebastiAn
#76. Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
George Bernard Shaw
#77. Without death, there is hardly any threat strong enough to truly appreciate human life. He thinks: I am as good as dead
too afraid to live, only waiting, never taking a risk
I am as good as dead already.
Joe Meno
#79. Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potential of their minds, so the spiritual or mystical, the things which remain mysterious or unexplained have always drawn me to include them in any scheme for a novel.
Rose Tremain
#80. Science is not separate from politics. As much as I would like it to be a pure thing, existing only in some intellectual realm unsullied by human struggle, it will always be entangled with the world we live in.
Marie Brennan
#81. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions. And the fact that a lot of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate these basic human emotions.
Mark Rothko
#82. Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
#83. I'm the idea of the human imagination, which, when you think about it, is the only thing we can really be certain ISN'T imaginary.
Alan Moore
#84. I'm such a strong human being. I amaze myself even. If only you knew what I've been up against, you'd want my autograph. I'm a real life superhero.
Crystal Woods
#85. So many people die with their dreams in their hands.
Alex Rogers
#86. When I discover something about the human genome, I experience a sense of awe at the mystery of life, and say to myself, 'Wow, only God knew before.' It is a profoundly beautiful and moving sensation, which helps me appreciate God and makes science even more rewarding for me.
Francis Collins
#87. I will venture to assert, that a just translation of any ancient poet in rhyme is impossible. No human ingenuity can be equal to the task of closing every couplet with sounds homotonous, expressing at the same time the full sense, and only the full sense of his original.
William Cowper
#88. I feel that we should not only maintain gentle, peaceful relations with our fellow human beings bur also that is very important to extend the same kind of attitude toward the natural environment.
Dalai Lama
#89. I would only once have the opportunity to let my scientific career encompass a path from the double helix to the three billion steps of the human genome.
James D. Watson
#90. I would like to show that I have a heart, that I am a human being and I have feelings. And to be this kind of role model, not only for beauty pageants but also for life.
Gabriela Isler
#91. I distinctly remember being a fifth-grader and lying in bed at three a.m. thinking, I am the only kid awake in the world. The insomnia feeds the anxiety, the anxiety feeds the insomnia, and my night would become a human centipede of sleeplessness.
Mamrie Hart
#92. I'm fascinated with genetic science, and I have been for a very long time. I always look at science and technology because I think that the developments in my lifetime have been so remarkable - and we're only at the tip of the iceberg with projects like decoding the human genome.
Nick Rhodes
#93. He taught me to be a Da Vinci
and I sit here, with his portraits
waiting for him to return
I do not think he will
Is that what it means to be human
to be all powerful,
to build a temple to yourself
and leave
only the walls to pray
Phil Kaye
#94. Lily's really together - she's a sharp kid and one of the smartest human beings I have ever met. Whatever she is doing, if she needs any advice, I'm there for her. Kids are going to make their own decisions, but I guess that the only thing you can do as a parent is to offer support. And I do.
Johnny Depp
#95. I seem to be the only person in the world who doesn't mind being pitied. If you love me, pity me. The human state is pitiable: born to die, capable of so much, accomplishing so little; killing instead of creating, destroying instead of building, hating instead of loving. Pitiful, pitiful.
Jessamyn West
#96. The more I understand the mind and the human experience, the more I begin to suspect there is no such thing as unhappiness; there is only ungratefulness.
Steve Maraboli
#97. In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.
Thomas Huxley
#98. In front of the model I work with the same will to reproduce truth as if I were making a portrait. I do not correct nature, I incorporate myself into it; it directs me. I can only work with a model. The sight of human forms nourishes and comforts me.
Auguste Rodin
#99. Life has a whimsical way of kicking you in the throat. I find it to
be one huge cosmic joke at our expense, only nobody is laughing
but the forces that be - given that they are even a wee bit human.
Lori Goldson
#100. The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience.
Wayne Dyer
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