Human Experience Quotes

"The idea of being sexual is very personal. Many might not be able to articulate their sexuality, but it exists as something intense and deeply felt in each one of us." "Men speak of mirth and write of sorrow" "If you want to understand consciousness, you have to admit that that conscious experience is always something extra." "The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music" "There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt." "There has been so little joy or laughter on earth that I want to leave some memory of it" "When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune" "Connection is why we're here; it is what gives purpose and meaning to our lives" "To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise" "The only meaning of life is the meaning we create." "Free will is like love: it is real, it matters, it can be misunderstood." "You don't pass or fail at being a person." "Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories. The first—the story of our quest for sexual love. The second—the story of our quest for a love affair with the world." "The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate." "There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it" "There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke" "You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime" "I’m no angel, but I’ve spread my wings a bit." "Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not" "Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection."