Human Condition Quotes

• 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
  • Chance
  • Trading
  • Entity

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

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Believe
  • Human Condition
  • Universality

• I'm attracted to the extreme light and the extreme dark. I'm interested in the human condition and what makes people tick. I'm interested in the things people try to hide.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • People
  • Light
  • Human Condition

• For the first time ever we are capable of removing abject poverty, illiteracy and the diseases of poverty from the human condition. The current intensification of global economic integration has demonstrated that there is enough knowledge, technology and capital to bring development to all the people of the world.

  

  Clare Short
  • Knowledge
  • Technology
  • Poverty

• Maybe kissing was part of the human condition.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Kissing
  • Human Condition

• The human condition is always to push forward for the better and economics is the study of that process.

  

  Brian Wesbury
  • Process
  • Economics
  • Human Condition

• We need metaphors of magic and monsters in order to understand the human condition.

  

  Stephen R. Donaldson
  • Understand
  • Human Condition
  • Metaphors

• 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
  • Humanity
  • Respond
  • Portray

• If a woman writes about herself, she’s a narcissist. If a man does the same, he’s describing the human condition. But people seem to evaluate your work based on how much they relate to it, so it’s like, well, who’s the narcissist?

  

  Emily Gould
  • Woman
  • Relate
  • Writes

• For anyone with half a brain they can see that this play is about the human condition.

  

  Estelle Parsons
  • Play
  • Brain
  • Human Condition

• It's the desire to study the human condition, the desire for collaboration, to learn and absorb, and to lead a well-examined life.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Desire
  • Learn
  • Collaboration

• But if there is such a thing as social commitment in literature, I think it must manifest itself in a reader's awareness of the human condition, in the writer's touching some common nerve ending. I think this kind of social commitment, like a lady's slip, should be there but it must not show.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Literature
  • Manifest
  • Social commitment

• For the Buddha and Early Buddhism, this is above all the defining crisis at the heart of the human condition: we are bound to a chain of rebirths, and bound to it by nothing other than our own ignorance and craving. The pointless wandering on in saṃsāra occurs against a cosmic background of inconceivably vast dimensions. The period of time that it takes for a world system to evolve, reach its phase of maximum expansion, contract, and then disintegrate is called a kappa (Skt: kalpa), an eon.

  

  Bhikkhu Bodhi
  • Ignorance
  • Buddha
  • Expansion

• I'm stuck on this planet with you. And honestly, I'm glad. I've been exposed to a lot of awful people in the last few months, but I've met so many more that are amazing, thoughtful, generous, and kind. I honestly believe that is the human condition. And if the Carls are testing us, this final test is the hardest to accomplish. If you pay attention, there is only one story that makes sense, and that is one in which humanity works together more and more since we took over this planet. Yeah, we fuck it up all the time, yeah, there have been some massive steps backward, but look at us! We are one species now more than we have ever been. People fight against that, and they probably always will, but could there be any time in history when what Carl is asking would be more possible?

  

  Hank Green
  • People
  • Planet
  • Human Condition

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