Being Human Quotes

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
George Orwell

Human, Perfection, Seek

The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.
Elizabeth Edwards

Strength, Patience, Human

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
Viktor E. Frankl

Life, Human, State

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
Al Franken

Life, Mistakes, Human

But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.
Bob Geldof

Experience, Learning, Depression

Most of us are consumed with our own thoughts and desires and are not always thinking about what other people may want. This is not necessarily being egocentric; it is just being human.
Bo Bennett

Human, Thinking, May

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
Charles Baudelaire

Music, Poetry, Human

I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I'm going to just keep going.
Alanis Morissette

Human, Keep, Playing

There's no huge, deep message in any of the songs. We recorded a few months of being human.
Layne Staley

Deep, Human, Few

We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.
Erica Jong

Best, Sleep, Human

The audience will make you feel like a demigod. But when you leave the stage, get back to being human.
David Coverdale

Human, Leave, Stage

The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder one another is the simple fact of being human.
Jeffrey Kluger

Truth, Simple, Human

The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.
Aaron Carter

Life, Human, Afraid

Obviously the idea of being human is a very human idea.
Dominic Monaghan

Human, Idea, Obviously

For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.
Terry Eagleton

Human, Goodness, Affair

I've made mistakes, I've misspoke, I am sure I will again sometime, but that happens, that's part of being human in my book. I'm OK with that. I've never done it maliciously, ever.
Curt Schilling

Mistakes, Human, Book

We are all here to be a service to those who can't be a service to themselves. We can give people hope and more reasons for being human.
Dionne Warwick

Hope, Human, Give

Religion has endured since the dawn of human consciousness precisely because it encompasses so much of being human. No idea has endured so long, gathered up so many disparate needs and wants and feelings, and inspired so many different paths towards understanding it.
Robert Winston

Religion, Long, Human

Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human being takes practice; and those who are brilliant at being human (what Christians call the saints) are the virtuosi of the moral sphere - the Pavarottis and Maradonas of virtue.
Terry Eagleton

Good, Human, Moral

I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out that it's a great lens with which to understand what matters to us.
David Eagleman

Great, Human, Understand

I think my wife and my kids are incredibly good to allow me to stay in public life given that they have to cop a whole lot of collateral attention that, being human, they'd rather not get.
Tony Abbott

Life, Good, Wife

Stories are the only thing that I can be bothered with. It's the only way that I can do anything, even if I'm quite useless. It's the only area in being human where I could be a little useful.
Alice Englert

Human, Quite, Stories

I'm obsessed with being human.
Rachelle Lefevre

Human, Obsessed

To my mind, there is a reason that music is there and it's about being human.
Kim Deal

Music, Mind, Human

The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.
Anatole Broyard

End, Human, Find

Being human is being a lot of things at the same time.
Matthias Schoenaerts

Time, Human, Same

The 'Being Human' people were really cool and let me improvise. They had such a good working atmosphere. It was a cool set-up and a really good environment to be in.
Craig Roberts

Good, Cool, Human

I'm getting a lot of stick because my character in 'Young Dracula' wanted to be vampire, so now that I am a vampire, everyone's like, 'You finally did it!' But it's cool and I loved doing 'Young Dracula.' That show's finished and I don't know why it ended, so it was brilliant to go into 'Being Human,' which is like the adult version of it.
Craig Roberts

Cool, Character, Human

I'd love to pop back into 'Being Human' as Adam. I love the character so much. I've never really played a character like that. I'm always playing the geek, so to play a kid who is very energetic when he wants to be, and who is always trying to get the girls, was really cool.
Craig Roberts

Love, Cool, Character

I've actually been in situations where I've turned down a lot of money to continue on, in certain shows, or to do something that would have lasted years when I didn't even like it. I didn't want to be in any one spot for years, unless I really believed in it, and I really believe in 'Being Human.'
Samuel Witwer

Money, Human, Down

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