Top 1200 Human Condition Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition.

When you're just a breath away from North Korea, it boggles your mind that that exists, or that something like the Khmer Rouge ever existed. You wonder how we allow that to happen as human beings; how we allow the human condition to get so depraved and desperate.

I love Victorian novels, the way they capture the nuances of the human condition.

Great leaders motivate large groups of individuals to improve the human condition.

Degas was obsessed by the art of classical ballet, because to him it said something about the human condition. He was not a balletomane looking for an alternative world to escape into. Dance offered him a display in which he could find, after much searching, certain human secrets.

There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.

Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.

Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being

My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.

As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.

The "human condition" is always to push forward for the better and economics is the study of that process.

Everyone has monsters and demons within themselves. They're metaphors for the human condition.

What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition.

War and sex are what I call the two abysmal - by that I mean deep - parts of the human condition.

Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history.

The human condition can almost be summed up in the observation that, whereas all experiences are of the past, all decisions are about the future. It is the great task of human knowledge to bridge this gap and to find those patterns in the past which can be projected into the future as realistic images.

I want to make films about the human condition, what we're doing to the world or ourselves.

Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

I don't ever expect to be permanently happy. I don't think that's part of the human condition.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.

I always wanted to act. To be with my friends. To share something with the audience about the human condition.

I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.

I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.

Is the human condition not defined by an endless struggle to control the ego's subterfuges?

Transience is one of the fundamental characteristics both of the human condition and of the political order.

May the work of your hands be a sign of gratitude and reverence to the human condition.

I think music is a lifting force, I think love is the lifting force in the human condition. I think you see someone loving on their child, and it moves you, and you can't help it. It rings a bell inside of us that elevates us as human beings, and I treasure that. I think it's one of the few great things about human beings.

The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind of insight into life and strives for the same kind of victory over blind change. Classical music as gesture signifies knowledge of the tragedy of the human condition, affirmation of human destiny, courage, cheerful serenity.

It seems that fiction no longer produces work that makes one feel the human condition deeply.

If we are to understand the human condition, and if we are to accept ourselves in all the complexity, self-doubt, extravagance of feeling, guilt, joy, the slow freeing of the self to its full capacity for action and creation, both as human being and as artist, we have to know all we can about each other, and we have to be willing to go naked.

The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.

We believe that an individual must endeavor to assume the universalism inherent in the human condition.

Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art.

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

Experiencing differences is crucial to the human condition. Especially when that difference is over the head, blower powder.

The very acceptance of the limited means of the human condition makes for endless creativity.

Art is many things but, directly or indirectly, it always describes the human condition.

I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.

You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition.

the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith

Taigen Dan Leighton has lovingly illumined still another dimension of the human condition.

It seems to be part of the human condition to need someone you can look down on. I still don't get that one.

For anyone with half a brain they can see that this play is about the human condition.

The human condition means that we can zone out and forget what the hell we're doing.

The discontent that lies in the human condition is not satisfied simply by material things.

Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

We are all substantially flawed, wounded, angry, hurt, here on Earth. But this human condition, so painful to us, and in someways shameful- because we feel we are weak when the reality of ourselves is exposed- is made much more bearable when it is shared, face to face, in words that have expressive human eyes behind them.

You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.

We need metaphors of magic and monsters in order to understand the human condition.

We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition.

Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.

There is a kind of universality in the human condition, masculine or feminine. That's one thing I continue to believe.

No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.

The shuffle only demonstrated people's fatuous belief in a political cure for a human condition.

This human condition and people's stories. That's what I love. The other thing is traveling.

I like real problems, the human condition - twisted, darker stuff.

Other kingdoms are still present on earth along with the kingdom of the heavens. That is the human condition.

The very function of creativity, of the elaboration of the human condition only enlarges the human spirit and, I mean, as a writer I don't want to read political literature all the time. It would be terribly boring and, you know, abrasive, but just reading the insights, you know, partaking of the insights of a writer into phenomena, into society, into human relationships, both on a micro level and on a macro level, is already a function.

The proper condition of the human is not bovine placidity... the highest degree of tension that can be creatively borne.