#human condition

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. ↗

— Tony Curtis

#great #human #human condition #knitting #knows

There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth to pictures that they wouldn't have if the music wasn't there. ↗

— Mike Figgis

#beauty #condition #counterpoint #depth #gives

It seems to be part of the human condition to need someone you can look down on. I still don't get that one. ↗

— Janis Ian

#down #get #human #human condition #i

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. ↗

— Eugene Ionesco

#abolish #absolute #been #condition #death

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. ↗

— Jonathan Frakes

#american #american literature #baseball #biographies #condition

Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#human #human condition #modern #nature #reality

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#being #condition #fact #human #human condition

Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition. ↗

— Jason Isaacs

#condition #human #human condition #hunger #me

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

— Asia Argento

#aspect #condition #human #human condition #just

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life. ↗

— Mary Ellen Mark

#human #human condition #life #lives #mine