315 Quotes About Human-condition

Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.

People carry their secrets in hidden places, not on their faces. They carry suffering on their faces. Also bitterness if there’s room.

[I'll teach you] how not to leave the windows of your heart open when it looks like rain and how everyone has a stump where something necessary was amputated.

There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.

Oamenii sunt păsări nemaiîntâlnite,cu aripi crescute înlăuntru,care bat plutind, planând,într-un aer mai curat - care e gândul!

It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child.

That's what the leadership was teaching me, day by day: that the self-interest I was supposed to be looking for extended well beyond the immediacy of issues, that beneath the small talk and sketchy biographies and received opinions, people carried with them some central explanation of themselves. Stories full of terror and wonder, studded with events that still haunted or inspired them. Sacred stories.

Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct.

We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves