Human Being Quotes

Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.
Jeanne Moreau

Beauty, Sex, Human

I'm a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don't have control of every situation.
Beyonce Knowles

Love, Human, Control

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.
Walter Lippmann

Good, Human, Sensible

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
Joseph Conrad

Human, Him, Made

The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.
Emma Goldman

Life, Change, End

The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
Martin Heidegger

Human, Lord, Shepherd

Do I want to be a hero to my son? No. I would like to be a very real human being. That's hard enough.
Robert Downey, Jr.

Human, Real, Hard

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.
Margaret Walker

Human, Book, Wonderful

I'm actually a pretty decent human being, and when I'm home I'm straight as an arrow.
Kid Rock

Home, Human, Pretty

I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.
Elizabeth Edwards

Human, Rarest, Trait

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.
Graham Greene

Happiness, Human, Understand

I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis, because... you know. What's good for you 25 years ago may not be good for you now. So, to keep in touch with that, I think that's the first ingredient for success. Because if you're a successful human being, everything else is gravy, I think.
Whoopi Goldberg

Success, Good, Successful

No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.
William Glasser

Work, Human, Hard

When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does.
Maurice Sendak

Death, Live, Human

We should fight to preserve a country where people such as Michael Moore get to miss the point as badly as he misses it. Michael Moore represents everything I detest in a human being.
Dennis Miller

Fight, Human, Everything

The human being is flesh and consciousness, body and soul; his heart is an abyss which can only be filled by that which is godly.
Olivier Messiaen

Heart, Human, Soul

Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.
James Dickey

Mind, Feeling, Human

It's interesting to feel the pressure of having to be outgoing, because I think in general, as a human being, I'm pessimistic and introverted. But, it's cool, because it's a whole different side of me, and I impress myself. Even at times when I think that there's no possible way that I can be engaging, I'll suddenly pull it out and impress myself.
Nate Ruess

Cool, Human, Different

The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory.
Giacomo Casanova

Mind, Human, Made

Fiction's about what it is to be a human being.
David Foster Wallace

Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
Salman Rushdie

Human, Doubt, Seems

A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.
Eileen Caddy

Human, Single, Unique

Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame.
Eudora Welty

Human, Single, Situation

I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general.
Sandra Bullock

Life, Human, General

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.
Arthur Miller

Character, Human, Him

I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make.
Steven Patrick Morrissey

Love, Music, Human

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.
Norman Cousins

Nothing, Human, Says

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
Jean Rostand

Human, Nobility, Strictly

My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being.
James Earl Jones

Life, Human, She

To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.
Henry James

Human, Him, After

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