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Quotes About Human

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
~ Hannah Arendt
If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.
~ Honore de Balzac
At some future day it will be proved, I cannot say when and where, that the human soul is, while in earth life, already in an uninterrupted communication with those living in another world.
~ Immanuel Kant
I've found that contemporary psychology enrages me with its simplistic ideas of human life, and also its emptiness.
~ James Hillman
Everything has a beginning and an end. Life is just a cycle of starts and stops. There are ends we don't desire, but they're inevitable, we have to face them. It's what being human is all about.
~ Jet Black
Water is a finite resource that is essential in the advancement of agriculture, and is vital to human life.
~ Jim Costa
Life is a cutup. And to pretend that you write or paint in a timeless vacuum is just simply . . . not . . . true, not in accord with the facts of human perception.
~ William S. Burroughs
Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.
~ William Sloane Coffin
Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.
~ Yitzhak Rabin
The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
~ Walter Pater
Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded well into the 20th century.
~ Wellington Mara
Che Guevara's life is an inspiration for every human being who loves freedom. We will always honor his memory.
~ Nelson Mandela
Greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small.
~ Phillips Brooks
Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life.
~ Curt Sachs
Get it out of your head that wine's just a drink. Real wine is like a missing human gene. It vaccinates you against mundanity, against bad life.
~ D.B.C. Pierre
My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life.
~ Douglas Sirk
We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence.
~ Emile M. Cioran
Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.
~ David Lynch
We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.
~ Arthur Peacocke
Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Do not vainly lament, but do wonder at the rule of transiency and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do not cherish to unworthy desire that the changeable might become unchanging.
~ Gautama Buddha
Neil Armstrong was probably one of the most human guys I've ever known in my life.
~ Gene Cernan
The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy.
~ George C. Williams
The Arts and Sciences, essential to the prosperity of the State and to the ornament of human life, have a primary claim to the encouragement of every lover of his country and mankind.
~ George Washington