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Being Human Quotes (page 6)

Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else. Being human, she suffered from this lack and did what she could to make up for it. If she passed the evening bent over a table in the library and later declared that she had spent that time playing cards, it was as though she had managed to do both those things. Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was... Carson McCullers
So how on earth can I bring a child into the world, knowing that such sorrow lies ahead, that it is such a large part of what it means to be human? I'm not sure. That's my answer: I'm not sure. Anne Lamott
Alan Moore quote: "For to be human is not enough...when gods cry war amidst the..."
For to be human is not enough...when gods cry war amidst the thunder. Alan Moore
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "How embarrassing it is to be human."
How embarrassing it is to be human. Kurt Vonnegut
Van Gogh writing his brother for paints. Hemingway testing his shotgun. Celine going broke as a doctor of medicinethe impossibility of being human Charles Bukowski
Anne Lamott quote: " one of the immutable laws of being human is that the people..."
... one of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. [p. 65] Anne Lamott
J. D. Salinger quote: "The world is full of actors pretending to be human"
The world is full of actors pretending to be human J. D. Salinger
There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. And we must pass through solitude and difficulty, isolation and silence in order to reach forth to the enchanted place where we can dance our clumsy dance and sing our sorrowful song - but in this dance or in this song there are fulfilled the most ancient rites of our conscience in the awareness of being human and of believing in a common destiny. Pablo Neruda
Historical fact: people stopped being human in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of assembly line. Jeffrey Eugenides
John Irving quote: "but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a..."
but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human. John Irving
That spring he found the old bear, dead, in one of the caves. He slept beside the body. He dreamed the bear was his father. That was when he gave up being human. He gave her up as well. Alice Hoffman
How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire. Rumi
...they are able to forgive themselves, as a wise man once said, for being human. That is knowing that life is hard and virtue rare, they keep the ancient faith that it is better to love than to hate, to live fully even if imperfectly. Charles Van Doren
Deborah Tannen quote: "A perfectly tuned conversation is a vision of sanity--a..."
A perfectly tuned conversation is a vision of sanity--a ratification of one's way of being human and one's way in the world. Deborah Tannen
Reading's not a luxury, art's not a luxury. It's about your soul, and it's about yourself. And if reading is a luxury, being human is a luxury Jeanette Winterson

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