Human Experience Quotes - Page 12

• We've always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and stories reflect it. It's no less brutal now; each age has its horrors.

  Terri Windling

  Dark, Sublime, Age

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• Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have.

  Edwin S. Shneidman

  Grief, Profound, Mourning

  Edwin S. Shneidman (1995). “Voices of Death”, Kodansha Globe

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• Feelings, too, are facts. Emotion is a fact. Human experience is a fact. It is often possible to gain more real insight into human beings and their motivation by reading great fiction than by personal acquaintance.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Motivation, Real, Reading

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• Since with electricity we extend our central nervous system globally, instantly interrelating every human experience.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Nervous, Electricity, Humans

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• From our human experience and history, at least as far as I am informed, I know that everything essential and great has only emerged when human beings had a home and were rooted in a tradition. Today's literature is, for instance, largely destructive.

  Martin Heidegger

  Home, Essentials, Literature

  "Der Spiegel" Magazine, May 31, 1976.

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• I feel like you can't really be truthful as an artist and empathize with the human experience, unless you know your truth and you're not living a lie. So I'm learning through it, and it's making me a better person, and it's making me a better artist, I think.

  Diane Guerrero

  Lying, Artist, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One must have the humility and the imagination to honor all deep human experiences - not least those one has never come near to sharing.

  Rosamond Lehmann

  Respect, Humility, Imagination

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• If there is one conclusion to which human experience unmistakably points it is that democratic ends demand democratic methods for their realization.

  John Dewey

  Realization, Demand, Ends

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston (1988). “The Later Works, 1925-1953”, p.367, SIU Press

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• The family is the scene of the most intimate and powerful of human experiences. Family situations are bloodier and more passionate than any others, and the costs are greater.

  Charlene Weir

  Family, Powerful, Cost

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• The most trying moments in human experience were those in which there was nothing to be done except to wait.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Waiting, Trying, Done

  Patricia Wentworth (2007). “The Girl In The Cellar”, p.173, Hachette UK

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• The 30-year-old male is about as far away from Valentine's Day as you can get in the human experience.

  Topher Grace

  Valentine, Years, Males

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• They who say that women do not desire the right of suffrage, that they prefer masculine domination to self-government, falsify every page of history, every fact in human experience. It has taken the whole power of the civil and canon law to hold woman in the subordinate position which it is said she willingly accepts.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Taken, Self, Law

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Ida Husted Harper, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1902). “History of Woman Suffrage ...: 1883-1900”

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• Horror is one of the few genres - romance and comedy are the other two that come to mind - that's all emotion-driven. It's not a rational genre, like science fiction is. It's irrational by nature. And it is capable of exploring all aspects of human experience.

  Stephen R. Bissette

  Two, Romance, Mind

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2009.

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• There is something profoundly satisfying about sharing a meal. Eating together, breaking bread together, is one of the oldest and most fundamentally unifying of human experiences.

  Barbara Coloroso

  Eating Together, Bread, Meals

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• So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Garden, Aquariums, Law

  Samuel Eliot Morison (1953). “By Land and by Sea: Essays and Addresses”, New York : Knopf

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• A feminist is a person who answers 'yes' to the question 'Are women human?' Feminism is not about whether women are better than, worse than or identical with men...It's about justice, fairness, and access to the broad range of human experience.

  Katha Pollitt

  Men, Justice, Feminist

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• The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.

  Claire Messud

  Art, Humans, Works Of Art

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• Human experience is usually paradoxical.

  George Eliot

  Paradoxical, Humans

  George Eliot (1996). “Daniel Deronda”, p.663, Wordsworth Editions

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• Beauty, like all other qualities presented to human experience, is relative; and the definition of it becomes unmeaning and useless in proportion to its abstractness. To define beauty not in the most abstract, but in the most concrete terms possible, not to find a universal formula for it, but the formula which expresses most adequately this or that special manifestation of it, is the aim of the true student of aesthetics.

  Walter Pater

  Special, Quality, Useless

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Though nihilism has been relentlessly criticized for overemphasizing the dark side of human experience, it might be equally true that this overemphasis represents a needed counterbalance to shallow optimism and arrogant confidence in human power. Nihilism reminds us that we are not gods, and that despite all of the accomplishments and wonders of civilization, humans cannot alter the fact that they possess only a finite amount of mastery and control over their own destinies.

  John Marmysz

  Dark, Destiny, Civilization

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• War is the most extraordinary, extreme human experience.

  Dan Snow

  Peace, War, Extremes

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• If I accept the fact that a god is absolute and beyond all human experiences, he leaves me cold. I do not affect him, nor does he affect me. But if I know that a god is a powerful impulse in my soul, at once I must concern myself with him, for then he can become important

  Carl Jung

  Faith, Powerful, Soul

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• Sometimes people think that because you have money and position you are immune from the human experience. But I can feel as lonesome and lost as the next man when I turn the key in the door and go into an empty house that is usually full of kids and dogs.

  Robert Kennedy

  Dog, Kids, Men

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• For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Baseball, Games, Literature

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• Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human experience to explain mankind to itself; both attempt, in very different ways, to assemble coherence from seemingly unrelated phenomena; both stand guard for us against chaos.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Art, Spring, Different

  Kenneth Tynan (1961). “Curtains: Selections from the Drama Criticism and Related Writings”

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