315 Quotes About Human-condition

Pensei que me apetecia estar numa barcaça à deriva no oceano ou pendurado de um satélite pelo cós das calças. Qualquer lugar onde eu não estivesse; a velha contradição humana.

Repetimos essas frases muitas vezes, não é?Que frases?Tenho de ir. Estou com alguma pressa. Tenho coisas para fazer.Não percebo.Parece que o lugar onde estamos nunca é suficientemente agradável. Deixa-me lá ver se acolá se está melhor. E, quando lá chegamos, percebemos afinal que a vida estava a acontecer onde estávamos. Mas agora já estamos acolá e não podemos regressar, porque a vida também acontece acolá.

Even now, the world's metamorphosis continues. It's at a rate that's practically impossible to detect with our own eyes, but it's happening. The scale of a human life - measured by the speed of Internet updates or the crawl of a working day - is ill suited to fit the dynamic nature of our planet and the fantastic organisms that continue to evolve here.

There are no bystanders in life [...] Our humanity makes us each a part of something greater than ourselves.

My choice is to be engaged even if that means I am tainted. I live with contradictions, in accordance with the human condition, but do my best not to forget what absurdities are involved.

My mind didn't clear. It had been clear before. Instead it muddled, suddenly ablaze with rioting factions of insecurities and dreams, a cacophonous battleground of conflicting moral codes and dogma. I was, therefore, back to normal.

You see, in the end we're all miserable. It's the human condition.

Human are the open books of the past, the machine of the present and an undisclosed technology of the future.

Trotsky's view that the gap between aspiration and achievement will be a permanent feature of human life, so that tragedy will be permanently relevant to the contemporary human experience, seems far more faithful to Marx's view...