315 Quotes About Human-condition

We humans don’t suffer from a genetic-opportunism-driven ‘animal condition’, but a conscious-mind-based, psychologically troubled HUMAN CONDITION.

The observation that conflict is part of the human condition, banal though it is, contradicts fashionable beliefs.

Everyone breathing is broken. Keep breathing light into them until the stained glass collage takes your breath away.

The whole process of life is a process of deterioration in which everything—and this is the most cruel law—continually gets worse.

How strange that as I'm dying, you're calmly alive.

People may make fun of me because I’m wearing something odd, but it’s still good to be alive.

Why am I doing this? Why do I want to know the names and functions of all the beautiful structures I've spent my years violating? Because I don't deserve to keep them anonymous. I want the pain of knowing them, and by extension myself: who and what I really am. Maybe with that scalpel, red hot and sterilized in tears, I can begin to carve out the rot inside me.

Life is, in itself and forever, shipwreck. To be shipwrecked is not to drown. The poor human being, feeling himself sinking into the abyss, moves his arms to keep afloat. This movement of the arms which is his reaction against his own destruction is culture - a swimming stroke...

They have shattered visagesThey have barren eyesThey have frozen feetThey have inner criesThey have choked voicesThey have cold sighsThey have begging-handsThey have tired triesYet......To dream is human!