Being Human Quotations

Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.

We are all here to be a service to those who can't be a service to themselves. We can give people hope and more reasons for being human.

The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.

Oh, humiliation is poisonous. Its one of the deepest pains of being human.

The audience will make you feel like a demigod. But when you leave the stage, get back to being human.

Obviously the idea of being human is a very human idea.

For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.

The great advantage of being human is that we can employ rational thought and resolve to change our circumstances.

Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.

There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.

Don't be afraid to be human - you're human, you're going to have emotional days. You're going to have days when things suck and then some days when things are great, but don't feel guilty because you're experiencing that. Don't feel guilty from being human.

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.

A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings, human or otherwise.

There's no victory-condition for being human.

For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become.

Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.

Touch is the meaning of being human.

One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.

... one of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. [p. 65]

I do pray. I pray to something...up there. I have a God sense. It's not religious so much as superstitious. It's part of being human, I guess.

Chacun de nous a un jour, plus ou moins triste, plus ou moins lointain, o u' il doit enfin accepter d'e" tre un homme. There will come a day for each of us, more or less sad, more or less distant, whenwe must accept the condition of being human.

Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.

Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.

To my mind, there is a reason that music is there and it's about being human.

The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone

The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.

Harold could no longer pass a stranger without acknowledging the truth that everyone was the same, and also unique; and that this was the dilemma of being human.

Without emotion, what's the point of being human?

There is no doubt that being human is incredibly difficult and cannot be mastered in one lifetime.

Sometimes being human sucks.

Acknowledge to yourself that the factory job is dead. Having a factory job is not a natural state. It wasn't at the heart of being human until very recently. We've been culturally brainwashed.

Being human is being a lot of things at the same time.

..there is hope. That's the marvelous thing about being human. We can change our future. We need not be enslaved by the experiences of the past. We can learn to love even when we have not received love.

Peace is something that we can bring about if we can actually learn to wake up a bit more as individuals and a lot more as a species; if we can learn to be fully what we actually already are; to reside in the inherent potential of what is possible for us, being human.

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.

When did we stop being people, being human?

Music is part of being human.

I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.

… but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human.

Once you've achieved everything, there is nothing left. You take out the core of being human: the striving.

I'm obsessed with being human.

What is private belongs to me alone. What is personal belongs to all of us through the shared experience of being human.

Only you can take responsibility for your happiness..but you can't do it alone. It's the great paradox of being human.

If being human requires freedom, then enslavement to the cares of this world is dehumanizing.

The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life.

Thats the beautiful thing about being human: Things change.

At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.

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.

I really prize my freedom more than work. I prize just being human and doing other things.

Being human is a lot more difficult than being on tour.

That's something that is almost part of being human and I'm certain that will continue.

I believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings.

What a bummer it is to be a human being.

Stop being Jews and start being human beings.

Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?

Of all the creatures on this planet none is more dangerous than a human being.