Quotes About Being A Man

#1. My mind reeling with the concept that a human being, a man, could feel pride over sodomizing another man,

Bret Easton Ellis

#2. Only by being a man or woman for others does one become fully human.

Pedro Arrupe

#3. Are men and women different creatures? Do we feel things differently? Being a man, I can't know what a woman feels.

Samuel Barnett

#4. There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.

Robert Jordan

#5. I love watching Marty Scorsese's films, but they always make me feel terrible about being a man.

Martin Donovan

#6. A man must partly give up being a man With women-folk.

Robert Frost

#7. I'm a man." Koll's shoulders sagged. "When did that happen?" "It just happens." "I wish I knew what it meant, being a man." "Guess it means something different for each one of us. The gods know I'm no sage, but if I've realized anything, it's that life isn't about making something perfect.

Joe Abercrombie

#8. Relieved of moral pretense and stripped of folk costumes, the raw masculinity that all men know in their gut has to do with being good at being a man within a small, embattled gang of men struggling to survive.

Jack Donovan

#9. He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

Samuel Johnson

#10. A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that.

Louis L'Amour

#11. He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and his pretension itself is a very great prejudice.

Anatole France

#12. There is nothing more important than being a man, just a plain, ordinary, human man. I know you think Spartacus is something more than a man. He isn't. If he were, then he wouldn't be any good at all.
There is no great mystery about Spartacus.

Howard Fast

#13. Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity.

Jackson Katz

#14. I have always disliked being a man. The whole idea of manhood in America is pitiful, in my opinion. This version of masculinity is a little like having to wear an ill-fitting coat for one's entire life (by contrast, I imagine femininity to be an oppressive sense of nakedness).

Paul Theroux

#15. He was not a bad man, he was a good husband and father, but constant worry about his investments, about the money he earned, about the inevitable expenses that came with being a man of property had worn his nerves to a frazzle so that he was in a constant state of irritation

Mario Puzo

#16. Know what being a man's pet means. And if you're ever lucky enough to find yourself with the choice, choose the pasture.

Stacy Overman Morrison

#17. A man is in the right in being a man; it is the woman who is in the wrong.

Simone De Beauvoir

#18. Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced ... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.

Charles Stanley

#19. Some day, my son, you are going to learn that the two greatest joys of being a man are beating the hell out of someone and getting the hell beaten out of you, good night.

Richard Price

#20. The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or art director says.
Like Tyler says, even a souffle looks pumped.

Chuck Palahniuk

#21. He's grown into quite the young man since you took him in."
"You say that like being a man's a good thing," Nyx said.

Kameron Hurley

#22. Christ is the ground of our masculinity. He took Adamic humanity into the grave with him, and emerged with a new way to be human, and a renewed way of being a man.

Joe Rigney

#23. We're of one mind, Grenville and I, and the mind is hers, on account of my being a man and not having one.

Loretta Chase

#24. Mothering your man is not sexy for you or for him. If you want your man to "start being a man", start being his lover not his mother.

Miya Yamanouchi

#25. Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.

Sinclair Lewis

#26. A man who cannot command his temper should not think of being a man in business.

Lord Chesterfield

#27. But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.

Albert Camus

#28. 'Fringe' was the first time I realized that I could ever man up in a character and make this transition from being a boy or a young man into actually being a man.

Seth Gabel

#29. He was almost out, but being a man, he needed the last word. Slut.

C.D. Reiss

#30. A man without justice is a beast, and a man who would make himself a beast forgets the pain of being a man.

Timothy Leary

#31. Maybe the difference between being a boy and being a man is that boys couldn't control the awful things they sometimes felt. And men could. That afternoon, I was just a boy. Not even close to being a man.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#32. Hate gives identity. The nigger, the fag, the bitch illuminate the border, illuminate what we ostensibly are not, illuminate the Dream of being white, of being a Man. We name the hated strangers and are thus confirmed in the tribe.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#33. This is an essential element of the business of being a man: to flood everyone around you in a great radiant arc of bullshit,

Michael Chabon

#34. You act at being a man, and before you know it, you are one.

Richard Madden

#35. Trevor, remember a man is not determined by how much he earns. You can still be a man of the house and earn less than your woman. Being a man is not what you have, it's who you are. Being more of a man doesn't mean your woman has to be less than you.

Trevor Noah

#36. It's wrong to flog a man. It's against his being a man.

Peter Ustinov

#37. Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.

James Dean

#38. Sometimes the greatest difference between being a boy and being a man is restraint.

Dave Donovan

#39. Being a man (male "macho") does not give you right to anything.

Manuel Puig

#40. For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine.

A.S. Byatt

#41. Being male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of age. But being a gentleman is a matter of choice.

Srinivas Shenoy

#42. And then I know I'm being a man, not just some kid who's upset and wants it his way.

Angela Johnson

#43. Being a man of faith, what was so interesting to me was the subject, which started, by the way, with Anne Rice's wonderful books.

John Debney

#44. My only crime was being a man and living in the world of men, and you don't have to do special penance for that. The crime and the penance, in that case, coincide perfectly. They are identical.

Robert Penn Warren

#45. Being a man is bullshit; maybe trying to be a man had been the problem all along. At a certain point you just have to trust someone. Even if it's only yourself.

Bennett Madison

#46. I could settle for being a man, or I could struggle to become a human being.

Robert Jensen

#47. In the end, my story, in Iraq and afterward, is about more than just killing people or even fighting for my country. It's about being a man. And it's about love as well as hate.

Chris Kyle

#48. You think being a man is being strong, being hard, knowing how to defend yourself. But being a man is about learning how to walk away.

Ashley Walters

#49. Yes. Theo, being a man of few words, just told me it was cool.

Nora Roberts

#50. To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#51. Judge [Samuel] Alito has a reputation for being an exceptional and honest judge devoted to the rule of law, as well as being a man of integrity.

Chuck Grassley

#52. He who, being a man, remains a woman, becomes a universal channel. Eternal virtue will flow through him. He will become a child again.

Lao-Tzu

#53. Just "being a man" is something I can't take for granted, since I was not born a man. But you know what? It turns out nobody else is born a man either. Sure, roughly half of us humans are born male - but only a fraction of that fraction grow into men.

T. Cooper

#54. The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?

Gilles Deleuze

#55. This part of being a man, changing the way we parent, happens only when we want it to. It changes because we are determined for it to change; and the motive for changing often comes out of wanting to be the kind of parent we didn't have.

Augustus Y. Napier

#56. In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.

Albert Camus

#57. A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

Miguel De Unamuno

#58. Clever talk and domineering manner have little to with being a Man at His Best.

Confucius

#59. Until now I have never really lived! Life on earth is a creeping, crawling business. It is in the air that one feels the glory of being a man and of conquering the elements. There is an exquisite smoothness of motion and the joy of gliding through space. It is wonderful!

Gabriele D'Annunzio

#60. I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.

Agnes Smedley

#61. Women are just beginning to see that; there's something about being a woman that's innately different from being a man. I love what I'm seeing take place and I know Julia has so much to offer.

Kenny Loggins

#62. Each time you look at me the way you do, lay a shaky hand on my body, or your soft lips touch mine, you make me thank God for being a man.

Gail McHugh

#63. off the field, a real man doesn't bully the smaller or weaker person. A man rises above all such nonsense, you know? It's what being a man's about - protecting the weak, helping them get stronger, and standing up for what you believe in, on and off the field.

Michele Micheal Rakes

#64. Whenever a man enters the realm of prostitutes he's always regarded as a possible customer. If you enter as a woman, you're regarded as somebody who could be in the same place. Being a man brings the perspective of flirtation.

Michael Glawogger

#65. Shelley says I have no feelings. I say, the trouble with being a man is that if you are a man you have to get on with it and save the feelings for when you're ready to deal with it. So far in my life I've never been ready. I

Mick Flynn

#66. I am entirely well," said Eldric, "which has Dr. Rannigan exploring first one theory, then another, trying to understand. But not being a man of science, I don't care about understanding. I simply want to go outside and break a few windows.

Franny Billingsley

#67. I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge of being a man.

Romain Gary

#68. Being a man with a big heart, a man of consideration, a man who wants to do the right thing by people, and a follower of Christ (who said "Love thy enemy" -- though I would add "from a distance")[...]

Flavor Flav

#69. I am not quite sure of being a man: I never found it very difficult. It seemed to me that you had only to let yourself alone.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#70. Its not easy being a man you know. I had to get dressed today ... and there are other pressures.

Dylan Moran

#71. Perhaps," said Nietzsche, "only by being a man does a man release the woman in woman.

Irvin D. Yalom

#72. Because a man's greatest fear is not being a man, something that never occurs to a woman (not being a woman, that is).

Paulo Coelho

#73. Being an ugly woman is like being a man. You're gonna have to work. Yep.

Daniel Tosh

#74. I could be listening to Painted Red weave the stories of the saints in her rich roomy voice, and beginning to see how all those stories were in some way one story: a simple story about being alive, and being a man; a story that, simple as it was, couldn't itself be told.

John Crowley

#75. Acting is just being a man. Being human. Not forcing it.

Peter O'Toole

#76. Fuck the lot of you and your hypocritical bullshit. You sit around spouting brotherhood. You don't know the first thing about being a brother. Or being a man. Because a real man sure as hell would never have disrespected a woman the way each and everyone of you have disrespected Maysie.

A Meredith Walters

#77. Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe.

H. Rap Brown

#78. Women think of being a man as a gift. It is a duty. Even making love can be a duty. A man has always got to get it up, and love isn't always enough.

Norman Mailer

#79. Being a man of the theater and a hedonist, I find the idea of building coffins very romantic.

Nick Offerman

#80. Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.

Andrew Cohen

#81. He prided himself on being a man without prejudice, and this itself is a very great prejudice.

Anatole France

#82. With this idea, being a man with long experience of the sea (and they certainly have a great advantage over other men in any sort of task) ...

Garcilaso De La Vega

#83. What is the good of begetting a man until we have settled what is the good of being a man?

G.K. Chesterton

#84. There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.

Louis L'Amour

#85. Nails. The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says.

Chuck Palahniuk

#86. Every poem is an infant labored into birth and I am drenched with sweating effort, tired from the pain and hurt of being a man, in the poem I transform myself into a woman.

Jimmy Santiago Baca

#87. To say that gender is performative is a little different because for something to be performative means that it produces a series of effects. We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.

Judith Butler

#88. Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#89. The art of a warrior is to balance the terror of being a man with the wonder of being a man.

Carlos Castaneda

#90. Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.

Kevin Bacon

#91. A man who is more concerned with being a good man than being good at being a man makes a very well-behaved slave.

Jack Donovan

#92. Aziz winked at him slowly and said: ... There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.

E. M. Forster

#93. Blood was shed that you three might breathe the good air of life, and if that means you have to miss out on a Zibzy game, then so be it. Part of being a man is putting others' needs before your own.

Andrew Peterson

#94. Don't mistake being an asshole for being a man.

Dan Savage

#95. Imagine the joy of that - of not being beneath that big thumb. Imagine no longer being a beetle, but being a man.

Victor Robert Lee

#96. The truth is, if you asked me to choose between winning the Tour de France and cancer, I would choose cancer. Odd as it sounds, I would rather have the title of cancer survivor than winner of the Tour, because of what it has done for me as a human being, a man, a husband, a son, and a father.

Lance Armstrong

#97. In general she had found that the main drawback in being a man was that conversations were less interesting.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#98. One thing I really love being a man about Islam is; I can have so many wives and that would be considered as my rights.

M.F. Moonzajer

#99. Not being a man of means, I knew that if I did not stay sober enough to earn money, I would run out of liquor.

Alcoholics Anonymous

#100. Well, the sword that could not be broken was shattered in the end, sheepherder, but it fought the Shadow to the last. There is one rule, above all others, for being a man.

Robert Jordan