Human Quotes
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Human beings are remarkably resilient. When you think about it, our species has been teetering upon the edge of the existential cliff since Hiroshima. In short, we endure.
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I also loved that there in Into the Forest was a beautiful balance to it, where they were strong and survivors and doing things in the film that we normally only see men do, but they were still human and vulnerable, and they still broke and had moments of weakness. That's something that we don't often get to see in these films, either.
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There are things in the human mind that are not meant to be seen or touched, things seldom even acknowledged by our conscious selves. Fantasies, impulses, rages, hatreds, primitive instincts. They're buried deep, usually, and that's where they belong.
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I began to realize that when you are at peace with your Maker you can, if not ignore human criticism, at least rise above it.
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Caring for others is an expression of what it means to be fully human.
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To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.
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If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.
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Grieving doesn't make you imperfect. It makes you human.
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Everyone can have a bad period in their life, but we are famous; we have a lot of things. Sometimes people think we are not human, with no feelings, with no problems.
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Merely being human is morally significant.
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A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.
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If one is not a human being, what is one?
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I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.
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The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe.
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The strongest force in the universe is a human being living consistently with his identity.
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Technology changes all the time; human nature hardly ever.
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People align with movements they can believe in, and it is the human, intellectual, and financial investment in genuine content that defines experiences.
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Your connection to other people keeps you human, and that connection, staying human - that's what you have against control. It's like if somebody is being controlled by their job, the connection is to their family. And if they stay connected to those people, the job will never really have control over them.
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Being embarrassed means that you're human, and we like you better for it.
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God, tired, all he wanted to do was sleep, be in bed, dreaming of palo verdes in bloom, the yellow blossoms bursting in the blue sky like firecrackers. He wanted to dream soft hands rubbing his skin. He pictured himself melting beneath those hands, like butter or ice cream or anything else that wasn’t human.
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The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain.
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This fact, that the opposite of sin is by no means virtue, has been overlooked. The latter is partly a pagan view, which is content with a merely human standard, and which for that very reason does not know what sin is, that all sin is before God. No, the opposite of sin is faith.
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For me, pictures provide a means of holding, intensely, a moment of communication between one human and another.
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I'm a great lover of human beings.
