Human Experience Quotes

"To exist is to dare to throw oneself into the world" "The final end of every human undertaking, whether in science, art, or religion, is the human realization of the identity between the knower and the known, the seer and the seen, the experiencer and the experienced." "The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life? Answer: That you are here—that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse" "You can’t laugh and be afraid at the same time." "Fiction has enabled us not merely to imagine things, but to do so collectively" "Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be " "You taught me love is infinite, which, if applied naively, can be detrimental." "The talk of men who are drinking is rich with life and the sense of mortality" "I try to give the audience a sense of the wide range of human experience" "I now bear away with me, O my God, all that I have received, the wind and the wisdom of all human spirits that have been, and now are " "Superstition is a great enemy of man, but bigotry is worse" "We are all sailors on an alien sea " "It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open " "We read to know we are not alone." "It’s not true that life is one damn thing after another; it’s one damn thing over and over" "A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world." "Sooner or later in life, everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable" "Man is the storytelling animal." "Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack" "There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart "