Top 122 Human Condition Quotes

I enjoy learning about different periods and people, and then taking what’s universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are, certain things unite everybody.

The human condition today is better than it’s ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.

Not just art for art’s sake, but I want to have films out there that will provoke authentic, holistic conversations about the human condition. And not provide the easy answers, but put it out there.

The discontent that lies in the human condition is not satisfied simply by material things.

At the end of the day, we need to realize that segregation is not the human condition at its best. Which isn’t to say we need to all be the same. It simply means we need to embrace each other’s differences to help tell our stories together.

I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I’m lucky.

The fundamental job of the actor is to tell about the human condition, to be a voice for the truest ideas and deepest emotions.

I always wanted to act. To be with my friends. To share something with the audience about the human condition.

We kid ourselves that we’re trying to be empathetic with the human condition from a distance, but I don’t think that is it at all. It’s stupid; it’s a waste of time. But when the earth flexes its muscles, that’s rather different. That’s a powerful reminder of where we are.

Degas was obsessed by the art of classical ballet, because to him it said something about the human condition. He was not a balletomane looking for an alternative world to escape into. Dance offered him a display in which he could find, after much searching, certain human secrets.

I think it’s the human condition to be frequently embarrassed by your parents.

I believe strongly that when you have political capital, you should use it in a manner that helps improve the human condition. You shouldn’t just compile power and hold onto power for power’s sake.

I like the movies that embrace the complexity of the human condition.

Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and the nuances of the human condition.

Almost every month, I have a day where I get stuck in the mud of me. I used to blame hormones and PMS. After I hit 50, I blamed the lack of hormones. But men get stuck, too, so it must simply be the human condition.

I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.

People used to say I’m regional, but I’m not… We all have the same human condition.

I write about the human condition, as a South African. I sometimes see South Africa with the spectacles of the past and there will then be a political content in my writing.

I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.

The human condition is endlessly fascinating to me, and the existential horrors of life are what drive our imaginations and theater in general.

I’m somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.

Gambling is part of the human condition. I love it. I have the best time gambling. I’ve been winning fortunes, and I’ve been losing them.

I always say, as an actress, I get to portray the human condition, but as an activist, I get to change the human condition.

I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into.

I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition.

I’m drawn to ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, which is a big part of the human condition.

This idea of how everything is interconnected, and the impermanence of things.. It sums up the human condition to me, and it helps me on my path.

It’s such a human condition, whether you’re a great track star or a great knitting person or you paint watercolors – someone knows who you are.

People ask what are my intentions with my films – my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct.

I don’t think most people are all heroic or all villainous, so I find ambiguity of motivations to be a natural human condition.

Being a cop is often seeing the worst of the human condition and behavior. With all of that said, there is no reason that Mike Brown and also Eric Garner are dead today – except bad policing, excessive force, and the hunt-and-capture-prey mentality many thrill-seeking cops have adapted.

If I laugh a couple of times a day, I’m doing good. People think it’s their God-given right to be happy, and it’s just not. It’s something you’ve got to work at. I like to paint the human condition, and the human condition is not smiles and happy people.

Sustainability makes good business sense, and we’re all on the same team at the end of the day. That’s the truth about the human condition.

American computer science grads often have very little exposure to the human condition. They’ve rarely had manual labor or service jobs. They grow up in a bubble of privilege lulled into thinking this country is a true meritocracy.

The function of journalism is, primarily, to uncover vital new information in the public interest and to put that information in a context so that we can use it to improve the human condition.

I’ve been misconstrued because I speak in a certain way. I find it obnoxious how it defines you, somehow limits your ability to understand the human condition. You can’t be allowed near emotions; you play these curling-lipped, haughty characters. This awful label – ‘the posh Toby Stephens’ – I’m not posh!

I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I prefer to do television. Typical human condition.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

I like Halldor Laxness and Machado de Assis – people who try to understand the human condition by looking at intimate pictures of human life.

The human condition is the human condition, and what we try to do is illuminate the human condition.

It’s the human condition. We gravitate to what’s easy, things that are comfortable, convenient, pain-free, self-serving.

The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.

I love studying folklore and legends. The stories that people passed down for a thousand years without any sort of marketing support are obviously saying something appealing about the basic human condition.

I love Victorian novels, the way they capture the nuances of the human condition.

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

I’ve been inspired for a long time by Nicole Holofcener. I admire her greatly as an auteur, examining the human condition in a funny, growing, spirited, honestly dark and human way.

Parents are destined to sin against their kids; it’s inevitable. As is narcissism and the human condition. Everyone has their ego and their ambitions. Life happens in between.

I write more for the children of the computer revolution, who are also interested in speculation and exploring the human condition, but approach it from an information perspective.

The challenge of the retail business is the human condition.

My advice would be to look at the things you do to make money as ways to inform your work in the end. If our work is to study the human condition, most humans that we are going to be playing aren’t going to be artists, so go out and, as I did, learn what it’s like to have a 9-to-5 job… Think of it as character study.

I’m a sensitive guy; I respond to things that make my eyes well up a little bit, or make me root for people. I find the human condition interesting.

‘Revolutionary Road’ is a fascinating study of the human condition of a fragmenting marriage and the torment that these two people put themselves through in their efforts to try and find happiness and try and stay together, actually.

I love the grandiosity, how sweepingly entertaining films can be. And I think there’s a place for films that pry more into the human condition.

Memory isn’t a theme; it’s part of the human condition.

What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition.

The best fantasy does not offer an answer to our lives, it is an offering that acknowledges enough of the truth to resonate and add to the understanding about the human condition.