Top 55 Being Human Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Being Human Quotes from famous people such as Michael Socha, Anatole Broyard, Matthias Schoenaerts, Robert Winston, Matisyahu, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

An accent like mine and a face like mine, I think a lot

An accent like mine and a face like mine, I think a lot of the time it’s easy for casting directors to just stick me in as a bad boy, but ‘Being Human’ took a risk on me – bless ’em – and I’m not that bad boy no more.
Michael Socha
The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.
Anatole Broyard
Being human is being a lot of things at the same time.
Matthias Schoenaerts
Religion has endured since the dawn of human consciousness precisely because it encompasses so much of being human. No idea has endured so long, gathered up so many disparate needs and wants and feelings, and inspired so many different paths towards understanding it.
Robert Winston
I think there is a tendency for people to get rigid and caught up in their beliefs of what is right and wrong, and they lose sight of humanity. Being human has to come first before right or wrong.
Matisyahu
There’s a lot of insecurities and I think that’s being human. There’s highs and lows and it’s about navigating through that.
Laura Whitmore
The mystery of being human and, certainly, of being a Catholic lies in our embracing together the imperfect state known as the human condition. First and foremost, if we could ever be perfect or do things perfectly, we would eliminate mystery, an essential ingredient in the good life and the spiritual life.
Eugene Kennedy
I think a large part of being human centers on the state of being alone, and we try to mitigate that in so many ways.
Ayobami Adebayo
We all parent the best we can. Being human, we’re ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.
Erica Jong
We are all here to be a service to those who can’t be a service to themselves. We can give people hope and more reasons for being human.
Dionne Warwick
We’re all human, and part of being human is showing respect and support for others’ life choices.
Daniel Lubetzky
If you get too deep into the history, what often happens to a lot of us actors is that we become stilted. We forget that we’re reading about something that happened a hundred years ago. If we don’t put the human emotion that would naturally be in there, we end up being stilted instead of being human beings.
Ato Essandoh
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
George Orwell
But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.
Bob Geldof
I’d love to pop back into ‘Being Human’ as Adam. I love the character so much. I’ve never really played a character like that. I’m always playing the geek, so to play a kid who is very energetic when he wants to be, and who is always trying to get the girls, was really cool.
Craig Roberts
Everyone is different. We all suffer from the disease of being human. There are a thousand cures but no antidotes.
James Altucher
It astonished me in the early Nineties to suddenly have musicians admit that they had been inspired and influenced by us. That meant a lot at that time. But of course, being human, the… disrespect isn’t even strong enough a word, is it? The opprobrium was painful. Being popular and hated is not satisfying.
Neil Peart
Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God’s way of moving you in another direction.
Oprah Winfrey
I always tend to gravitate toward the idea of things being human: that this isolation I feel as an Asian American, even though it’s real, other people have it too in their own way.
Lee Isaac Chung
Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.
Janet Fitch
Maybe it is not just social history – the belt buckles and soup ladles – that connects us to the past, but a grander idea, an idea that shared memory is essential to being human.
Bettany Hughes
Along with aging comes life experience, so in every way that is consistent with even being human, Leia has changed.
Carrie Fisher
I have worked really hard to get to where I am, and I like it when I read praise, and I get upset when I read bad messages. It’s all part of being human.
Kubra Sait
Because you know what happens when you say ‘hello’ or ‘good morning?’ You make a connection. And isn’t that what being human is all about?
Philip Rosenthal
Libido is a normal part of being human. Nothing scandalous about it. But without it, in either women or men, would there be a demand for birth control?
Mike Huckabee
All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
Salman Khan
The podcast ‘Note to Self’ is ‘the tech show about being human’. Human notions of privacy have changed.
David Hepworth
The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear ducts and the nape of the neck and to make a person feel something about the characters are going through and to experience the moral paradoxes and struggles of being human.
Tim O’Brien
Everybody fails, its no big deal. Its what being human is. Dont let that stop you from taking risks.
Katty Kay
Seeing yourself reflected on screen is a very important part of being human. It makes us feel less alone, it make us feel more connected to humanity.
Marielle Heller
Most of us are consumed with our own thoughts and desires and are not always thinking about what other people may want. This is not necessarily being egocentric; it is just being human.
Bo Bennett
It doesn't matter who you are: being human is being hum

It doesn’t matter who you are: being human is being human. Everyone has days that are challenging.
Miranda Kerr
I think the actual art of expressing yourself is a very important part of being human. And an important part of being a performer is understanding what it’s like to create yourself.
Stephen Hough
I’ve gotten more flack from the remake nature of our ‘Being Human’ from American audiences than I have from British fans. Every fan of the BBC original that I’ve bumped into seemed very excited and interested in seeing what we did with it – at least to my face!
Samuel Witwer
The judiciary is peopled by judges who are human, and being human, they are occasionally motivated by considerations other than an objective view of law and justice.
Prashant Bhushan
I don’t diminish the idea of being American, but what I embrace is the idea of being human.
Lee Isaac Chung
I think part of being human is learning to roll with the punches, to deal with any kind of personal or professional disaster that might crop up. You have to learn to deal with that stuff or not survive.
Amy Gerstler
Being human means there’s a wall-builder in each of us. Our minds naturally divide the world into me and not-me, us and them. For thousands of years, our sages have taught that we’re all one, yet we still divide wherever we look.
Robert J. Waldinger
I’m using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human – it turns out that it’s a great lens with which to understand what matters to us.
David Eagleman
For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.
Terry Eagleton
I’m obsessed with being human.
Rachelle Lefevre
If you don’t have imagination, you stop being human; animals don’t have imagination; Alzheimer’s is the death of imagination.
Devdutt Pattanaik
People like seeing people being human and real, and I think that’s been lacking on TV.
Diane Guerrero
All the seven deadly sins are man’s true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you’re made to feel guilty for being human, then you’re going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can’t escape from.
Marilyn Manson
To have an opportunity to get in front of a camera every single day is just priceless because it gets you closer and closer to being less self-consciousness in front of it and really being human and really making choices and standing by them.
Katie Lowes
With sadness specifically, in America you read about people medicating to avoid sadness. They don’t want to experience sadness, and yet it’s such a vital part of being human.
Pete Docter
If human rights are an attribute of being human, then we must consider the fact that tens of millions of displaced people around the world have been rendered less than human.
Masha Gessen
There’s the way that light shows in darkness, and it is extremely beautiful. And I think it essentializes the experience of being human, to see light in darkness.
Emil Ferris
There’s a lot of kids who look up to me, and that’s humbling. Because being human, I don’t want to fail them. But being human, I will. That’s why it’s so important to have your faith put in something that won’t fail you. And that means the Son of God’s kingdom.
Si Robertson
Stories are the only thing that I can be bothered with. It’s the only way that I can do anything, even if I’m quite useless. It’s the only area in being human where I could be a little useful.
Alice Englert
As a little boy, I never felt comfortable with being human.
Genesis P-Orridge
The ‘Being Human’ people were really cool and let me improvise. They had such a good working atmosphere. It was a cool set-up and a really good environment to be in.
Craig Roberts
I don’t always feel fierce and fearless, but I do feel like I’m a rock star at being human.
Tracee Ellis Ross
The company culture is about being human, being good to other people. We recently did a survey with our drivers. 48 out of 50 said that they preferred driving with Lyft because they said that passengers were friendlier.
Logan Green
You spend your whole lifetime in your occupation, actually making life clever, easy and convenient for white people. But when you have to get transportation home, you are denied an equal accommodation. Our existence was for the white man’s comfort and well-being; we had to accept being deprived of just being human.
Rosa Parks