Human Condition Quotes
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The human condition is all about us pretending to be something sometimes that we're not. When you get into the core of people kind of stripping all of that away, that's for me, as an actor, always the most fun stuff to do.
Charlize Theron
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One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the best of what one has experienced and understood about the human condition as it relates to the role one has been hired to portray.
Tom Skerritt
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I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.
Bill Gates
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Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition.
Bill Gates
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The human condition ... is defined by the aspiration to always supersede oneself, which in turn requires nonconformity.
Pablo Antonio Cuadra
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The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind of insight into life and strives for the same kind of victory over blind change. Classical music as gesture signifies knowledge of the tragedy of the human condition, affirmation of human destiny, courage, cheerful serenity.
Hermann Hesse
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The human condition comprehends more than the condition under which life has been given to man. Men are conditioned beings because everything they come in contact with turns immediately into a condition of their existence. The world in which the vita activa spends itself consists of things produced by human activities; but the things that owe their existence exclusively to men nevertheless constantly condition their human makers.
Hannah Arendt
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I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.
Maya Angelou
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Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into the two-in-one, without being able to keep myself company.
Hannah Arendt
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Literary fiction is fiction that examines the character of the people involved in the story, and that popular fiction is driven by plot. Whereas popular fiction, I tell them, is meant primarily as a means of escape, one way or another, from this present life, a kind of book equivalent of comfort food, literary fiction confronts us with who we are and makes us look deeply at the human condition.
Bret Lott
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To aspiring writers, I say : Don't give up. Storytelling has been an integral part of the human condition since the beginning of time. Don't let anyone tell you your dreams don't have value. They do.
Beverly Jenkins
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I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.
Hector Elizondo
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Good families are generally worse than any others.
Anthony Hope
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The mystery of being human and, certainly, of being a Catholic lies in our embracing together the imperfect state known as the human condition. First and foremost, if we could ever be perfect or do things perfectly, we would eliminate mystery, an essential ingredient in the good life and the spiritual life.
Eugene Kennedy
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He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
Albert Camus
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The Fall is an offense to human reason, but once accepted, it makes perfect sense of the human condition.
Blaise Pascal
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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.
Eddie Griffin
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That the human condition was so obviously exposed to the blind fury of chance that to trust in a God, a Jesus, the Holy Spirit—this last a completely superfluous entity, it was there only to make up a trinity, notoriously nobler than the mere binomial father-son—was the same thing as collecting trading cards while the city burns in the fires of hell.
Elena Ferrante
