Condition Quotes

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

Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.

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

Bad books always lie. They lie most of all about the human condition.

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

As long as greed, stupidity and cowardice remain a part of the human condition, there will be a constituency for Democrats.

When a show becomes a mega hit internationally, you lose a lot of privacy, you become a hider. It's not a human condition we are exposed to very often.

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.

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

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

Sometime you just need to be silent, have a drink and crack a smile or somethin', because the human condition, in general, is just overwhelming in so many ways.

I love the grandiosity, how sweepingly entertaining films can be. And I think there's a place for films that pry more into the human condition.

Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair.

Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a point that characterizes the human condition.

It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology

Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.

A good song deals with the human condition, and the truth of the human condition.

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

The challenge of the retail business is the human condition.

Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition.

The tragedy of the human condition is that the thing that makes us most human - community - originates in the inhumanity of war.

These are pictures of the people in my family where we look like the most awkward and desperate folk you ever saw, poster children for the human condition.

I am really fascinated by self-sabotage. I think that there's not a person I know who doesn't fall victim to it. It's essential to the human condition, and relatable.

With compassion, we see benevolently our own human condition and the condition of our fellow beings. We drop prejudice. We withhold judgment.

Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.

Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and the only one who is searching for the Other.

The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.

Everyone stumbles at one time or another. It's the human condition

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

You have to know the human condition to get that many people to all respond at the same time to the same subject. You gotta understand humanity in order to portray it.

Vows begin when hope dies.

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

We are gods with anuses.

I made a tentative conclusion. It seemed from all of this that uppermost among human joys is the negative one of restoration: not going to the stars, but learning that one may stay where one is.

If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.

How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.

To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.

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.

The Human Condition being, basically, that we’re alive and have access to beauty, can even erratically create it, but will someday be dead and will not.

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

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

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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