315 Quotes About Human-condition

Si tuviera que resumir mi vida lo haría en una sola frase: lo que no se me hizo un trauma, se me convirtió en un vicio. Ahora soy ese lío de heridas, miedos, inconexiones de las que no pude deshacerme y de pequeños excesos que me ayudan a soportarlas, es decir, a barrerlas bajo la alfombra. No sé cuál de ellos acabará por matarme, aunque sospecho que será, como todo, una combinación de ambos.

The definition of a good story is one that remains with you long after you've turned that last page.

A fresh approach is needed — an analysis of our human situation from a basis that recognises and confronts the psychological dimension to our behaviour

If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us is a biography, a story. Each of us is a singular narrative, which is constructed, continually, unconsciously, by, through, and in us--through our perceptions, our feelings, our thoughts, our actions; and, not least, our discourse, our spoken narrations. Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives--we are each of us unique.

La foiblesse de nostre condition, fait que les choses en leur simplicité et pureté naturelle ne puissent pas tomber en nostre usage...Nostre extreme volupté a quelque air de gemissement, et de plainte.

No civilization can afford to remain stagnant. Citizens of the world must steel themselves for the defining challenges of their generation. People of every nation must fight pitched battles that they can never completely win. Our attitude of either capitulating to the evil permutations of our times or fighting for humanity is our story. How we address our domestic and international responsibilities is how we define our humanness.

Love is unconditional selflessness

Feeding the family trumps conviction every time, Mary though, a basic law of the human condition.

Gossip is the human condition. It’s like water. It finds its way through every crack and gap. It can’t be contained.