Human Quotes
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Human character is just endlessly fascinating, and there is no character who is one thing any more than any one person is just one thing. As you work on a character, he/she is revealed more and more. That's what I continue to love about the work.
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Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
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Crime novels, it has been said, show the human psyche under pressure.
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Famously cancer fighting, laden with vitamins, minerals, soluble fiber, and phytonutrients, broccoli and its relatives are among the healthiest ingredients of the human diet.
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The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.
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The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
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Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.
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The most beautiful ape is ugly when compared to a human. The wisest human will seem like an ape when compared to a god with respect to wisdom, beauty, and everything else.
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I'm a human being, and I get sick.
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It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
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Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate you'll be at taking their perspective.
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I want to be in a position where I can function as a human being.
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I'm obsessed with being human.
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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
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An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
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Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
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The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap.
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Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
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Big stories need human stakes.
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People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.
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To err is human, but it feels divine.
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I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.
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I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can.
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The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.
