The Human Condition Quotes
...unquestioning automatonsblindly marching to the beat -an eerie crunching soundhoards of shuffling feet...(from silent moments)
A fresh approach is needed — an analysis of our human situation from a basis that recognises and confronts the psychological dimension to our behaviour
The more I know, the more I realize that I don't know much at all...
The whole process of life is a process of deterioration in which everything—and this is the most cruel law—continually gets worse.
There is nothing more dreadful than having to go walking on one’s own on Monday.
How strange that as I'm dying, you're calmly alive.
Men are more resilient than that, I think. Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.
How lame this is, how small, terrible. Or maybe it is beautiful. I can't decide if what I am doing is beautiful and noble and right, or small and disgusting.
Everyone breathing is broken. Keep breathing light into them until the stained glass collage takes your breath away.
We represent the true human condition, the one permanent victory over cruelty and chaos. . . . Our true home is the imagination, and our kingdom is the wide-open world.
There's no room for hate and violence in this world. We must learn to be more kind, compassionate, empathetic, and sympathetic to humanity.
One thing that is clearer to me every day is how much we all have in common, and one of those commonalities is that we all think we are alone.
We are a singularity that makes music out of noise because we must hurry. We make a harvest of loneliness and desiring in the blank wasteland of the cosmos.
The road to enlightenment requires a life dedicated to self-study, accepting the minor tragedies of life as an ineluctable part of the human condition.
All this miraculous hatred. Christ, a man can't eat his breakfast for filling his belly full of it.
Tomorrow I'll suggest the liar lies against himselfSo our condition makes escape impossible? -- we breatheand it's moving air that causes stars to twinkle
The definition of a good story is one that remains with you long after you've turned that last page.
Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes there solution. Within this space - between these apparent poles - life flows.
Practically every fella that breaks the law has a danged good reason, to his own way of thinking, which makes every case exceptional, not just one or two. Take you, for example.
Mistaken ideas always end in bloodshed, but in every case it is someone else's blood. This is why our thinkers feel free to say just about anything.
she also liked to remember that there could be no such thing as an intentional imperfection. People are always mistaking something that looks good for something that feels good.
To acknowledge God is to fully accept the sorrow of the human condition.
Finding understanding of the human condition is what rehabilitates and transforms the human race
Struggle strengthens the human bond and lightens the burden of the human condition.
jThe notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.
What held the civilized world together was the thinnest tissue of nothing but human will.
Pseudo idealism: apparent charitable behaviour that on scrutiny is revealed as selfish, because the giver is engaging in it only so that he or she can feel good about him or herself