The Human Condition Quotes

I ma trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition.

Perhaps depression is a perfectly natural reaction to the human condition.

People who are mean or unkind or rigid - think about it - cannot laugh at themselves. If we can't laugh at ourselves and the human condition, we're going to be mean.

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

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

We want to live in ambiguity. This is the human condition.

I'm a sensitive guy; I respond to things that make my eyes well up a little bit, or make me root for people. I find the human condition interesting.

A realistic recognition of the human condition is that it is corrupt beyond belief. What do you suppose would happen if the police all took a week off?

There is no way to explain enlightenment. It is just a word to indicate something beyond, something very, very far beyond the normal human condition.

A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [...]

The true human condition in its most perfect form has no secrets. It does not hide, but exists in clear love.

A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of those tendencies which impel him to surpass the human condition.

I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are all about the human condition, and people will be able to find themselves in my songs.

We all have to lead double lives, not just celebrities. The face we put on publicly with our jobs and certain situations. I think that's part of the human condition.

Pop culture has none of the vibrancy that you find in the folk culture, where people speak directly to their own experience in the human condition.

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.

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

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

Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition.

I don't see myself as some kind of lone figure standing out there and doing my work in solitary splendour, but as part of the human condition and part of the continuum of writers.

I thought if I could create a convincing cat I could say and do anything I wanted on the human condition.

Crime fiction is a genre for writing stories about people - about conflict, about guilt, about passion, about the human condition.

Highway One, Antarctica is a wonderful debut by a writer with razor-sharp insights to the human condition. Justin Herrmann is a voice I hope to hear more from, and soon. Excellent collection.

One must be something to be able to do something.

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

I think that if you're writing about the human condition, my God, you've got to start at base: point zero, point one, is the body.

A digital frontier to reshape the human condition.

Either a good or a bad reputation outruns and gets before people wherever they go.

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

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

There is something about the human condition. I don't think dogs are like "If only I was a poodle instead of a golden retriever, I'd be totally happy." Dogs are happy with who they are.

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

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

The human condition itself inspires me.

You could do math early, but there are no brilliant 16-year-old novelists. They don't know the human condition yet.

What I want any genre to do, what I want any work of art to do, is to illuminate the human condition.

We like to believe that, in our lifetime, the human condition is improving.

I think somehow I got a sense of the foolishness of the human - my favorite phrase, the foolishness of the human condition.

Everything in life is about sharing; it is part of the human condition

Our human condition makes us tend to share only the best of ourselves, because we are always searching for love and approval

I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I prefer to do television. Typical human condition.

Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisonedin mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events.

In a tavern everybody puts on airs except the landlord.

The Odyssey and Iliad say things about the human condition in ways we should re-acquaint ourselves with, and use as a prism to interpret though.

We're either nothing or a God's regret.

There is a sort of mystery to kitsch. When did it begin? If it is just simply another name for faking emotions, it ought to have been a permanent part of the human condition.

The opulence of Wilde is a bit too florid for Sherlock, who is a much darker character, ... fascinated by the human condition, but also overwhelmed by it.

America is far and away superior to every other place on earth, in terms of lifestyles, liberty, and freedom. In terms of the human condition, there's no place like it.

There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation.