Being Human Quotes - Page 9

• We always find it difficult to forgive our heroes for being human.

  Frances Hardinge

  Hero, Forgiving, Difficult

  Frances Hardinge (2008). “Verdigris Deep”, p.137, Pan Macmillan

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• There's no victory-condition for being human.

  Bruce Sterling

  Victory, Humans, Conditions

  "Interview: Bruce Sterling Answers Your Questions". entertainment.slashdot.org. December 23, 2013.

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• Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is always going to engage and compel us. We're involved in a mystery. Poetry uses words to put us in touch with that mystery. We're always going to need it.

  Edward Hirsch

  Poetry, Essentials, Needs

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• 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.

  Jean Anouilh

  Accepting, Plus, Humans

  1944 Antigone.

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• There's a dark side to each and every human soul. We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we are, but there's a little Darth Vader in all of us. Thing is, this ain't no either or proposition. We're talking about dialectics, the good and the bad merging into us. You can run but you can't hide. My experience? Face the darkness, stare it down. Own it. As brother Nietzsche said, being human is a complicated gig. Give that old dark night of the soul a hug! Howl the eternal yes!

  Stuart Stevens

  Running, Brother, Dark

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• The authentic rebel knows that the silencing of all his adversaries is the last thing on earth he wishes: their extermination would deprive him and whoever else remains alive from the uniqueness, the originality, and the capacity for insight that these enemies being human also have and could share with him. If we wish the death of our enemies, we cannot talk about the community of man. In the losing of the chance for dialogue with our enemies, we are the poorer.

  Rollo May

  Men, Community, Enemy

  Rollo May (1998). “Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence”, p.237, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I resist all established beliefs. My religion basically is to be immediate, to live in the now. It's an old cliche, I know, but it's mine. I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural. So far, at least. Not that I wouldn't like to. I mean, I want to believe. 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 ... Do unto others: How much deeper into religion do we really need to go?

  Jack Nicholson

  Religious, Believe, Mean

  "What I've Learned: Jack Nicholson" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• We need to make sure that the powers that be know that arts education is as vital and as important as geography and arithmetic. You know, it is a part of the spiritual and the soulful experience and expression of being human and it is a necessity, as necessary as water, as breathing air.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Spiritual, Art, Air

  "Art (Education) Talk with Rosie O'Donnell" by Paulette Beete, www.arts.gov. June 30, 2014.

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• The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.

  Aaron Carter

  Things In Life, Humanity, Life Is

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• I saw my role as prime minister's wife as being human towards other humans and not treating them badly.

  Margaret Whitlam

  Women, Wife, Roles

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• The essence of being human is being creative.

  Joel Garreau

  Essence, Creative, Evolution

  Joel Garreau (2005). “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human”, p.263, Broadway Books

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• Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dance, Dancing, Ballet

  Charles Baudelaire (2001). “The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo”, p.22

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• We’re not Indians and we’re not Native Americans. We’re older than both concepts. We’re the people, we’re the human beings.

  John Trudell

  Native American, Race, People

  "Reel Injun". Documentary, Western, www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• The balance is the penalty of being human: the danger of allowing yourself to feel. For this we walk a narrow path high above rocky ground. On one side we have the descent into animalism, on the other a godhead delusion. Both pulling at us, both tempting. But without these forces tugging at your psyche, stirring it into conflict, you can never love. They awaken us, you see, these warring sides, they arouse our passion.

  Peter F. Hamilton

  Passion, Balance, Path

  "The Reality Dysfunction". Book by Peter F. Hamilton, October 8, 2008.

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• My single greatest challenge is to remain centered and loving in an overwhelmingly nonvegan world. In today's world, cruelty and exploitation of other beings - human and non-human alike - are accepted, practiced, and profited from by most every institution of society - from commerce and science to education and entertainment. Unfortunately, the vast majority of Homo sapiens are either unaware of the cruelty or accept it as unavoidable and even normal.

  Michael Klaper

  Challenges, Majority, World

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• Consequently, Christian meditation is entirely trinitarian and at the same time entirely human. In order to find God, no one need reject being human personally or socially, but in order to find God all must see the world and themselves in the Holy Spirit as they are in God's sight.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Christian, Sight, Order

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1989). “Christian Meditation”, p.5, Ignatius Press

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

  Sally Ride

  Certain, Humans

  "Tip A Forty Of Tang For Pioneering Astronaut And All-Around Awesome Person Sally Ride" by Caleb Reading, uproxx.com. July 24, 2012.

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• John Green has written a powerful novel—one that plunges headlong into the labyrinth of life, love, and the mysteries of being human. This is a book that will touch your life, so don’t read it sitting down. Stand up, and take a step into the Great Perhaps.

  KL Going

  Powerful, Book, Love Life

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• Did you know that the word person comes from the Latin word persona, which means mask? So maybe being human means we invite spectators to ponder what lies behind. Each of us will be composed of a variety of masks, and if we can see behind the mask, we would get a burst of clarity. And if that flame was bright enough, that's when we fall in love.

  John Cusack

  Falling In Love, Lying, Latin

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• In some ways I feel sorry for racists and for religious fanatics, because they so much miss the point of being human, and deserve a sort of pity. But then I harden my heart, and decide to hate them all the more, because of the misery they inflict and because of the contemptible excuses they advance for doing so.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religious, Sorry, Hate

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.109, Basic Books

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• The true artist does not create art as an end in itself; he creates art for human beings. Humanity is the goal.

  Bronislaw Huberman

  Art, Goal, Humanity

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• But I know I would not go out. I had taken this time to fall in love instead — in love with the sort of helplessness I had not felt in death — the helplessness of being alive, the dark bright pity of being human — feeling as you went, groping in corners and opening your arms to light - all of it part of navigating the unknown.

  Alice Sebold

  Falling In Love, Taken, Dark

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• Something is missing: that's as close as I can come to naming the sensation, an awareness of missed or thwarted connections, or of a great hollowness left where something lovely and solid used to be. ...There is something fundamentally insatiable about being human, as though we come into the world with a kind of built-in tension between the experience of being hungry, which is a condition of striving and yearning, and the experience of being fed, which may offer temporary satisfaction but always gives way to new strivings, new yearnings.

  Caroline Knapp

  Giving, Missing, Lovely

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

  Ernest Cline

  Videogame, Bearable, Humans

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• It is strange to hear your mother talk about being human because, honestly, it's too easy to forget.

  Joe Dunthorne

  Mother, Strange, Forget

  Joe Dunthorne (2011). “Submarine”, p.321, Penguin UK

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