315 Quotes About Human-condition

We are gods with anuses.

Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.

If our thoughts are slumping down into a muddling pie of oblivion, we must empower our minds to go beyond vain details or useless conventions. Scanning the reach on the horizon and challenging our imagination can allow us to recognize the essentials of our human condition and achieve harmony in our lives. ("Dirty bike)

Everyone wants to blast their music, to impose their voice and opinion, to make noise that is loud enough to cover every other voice around them. I wondered what would happen if we truly gave each other a chance and listened carefully to the tunes played by the fancy or broken instruments of each lonely soul around us?

Ever flickering between a faint glimmer and shining brightly, 
the creative artist is like a twinkling star. 
Their time of hiding in the darkness is the fuel needed 
to glow across the sky when the ‘light’ time comes. 
For them, embodying the significance of their insignificance 
by being nothing and everything simultaneously 
is the greatest poetry there is. 
Indeed, this is where the prime essence of the Human Condition lies.

It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical moment; heroically, one must force it on.

Except for our pompous means of comfort, human condition is not much different from animal condition - we are tormented each day with animal like anxieties, insecurities and fears, and each torment makes us believe that perhaps having more comfort will change our condition, but it never does, rather, it only shoves us deeper into the abyss of psychological darkness.

Go, go, go, said the bird: human kindCannot bear very much reality.

The stiller you are the calmer life is.