H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Human life is beyond comprehension.”
“Human life is but of brief duration. 'All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God shall stand forever' (Isa. 40:6, 8). Let us hold fast to the commandment that abides, and despise the unreality that passes away.”
“Human life is created in God's image, and that makes it sacred.”
Source: The 10 Greatest Struggles of Your Life: Finding Freedom in God's Commands
“Human life is difficult. But as this life is coming to an end, I consider myself lucky to have lived it.”
“Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.”
Source: Adventures of Ideas
“Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.”
“Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.”
“Human life is fiction's only theme.”
Source: Three papers on fiction
“Human life is fragile: we live in the space between one breath and the next. We often try to maintain an illusion of permanence, through what we do, say, wear, buy, and how we enjoy ourselves and who and how we love. Yet it is an illusion that is constantly being undermined by change and death. We can use diamonds in whatever way we like. They are empty things, pretty as water, yet within them—if we want to see it—there is blood, dust, love, curses, and suffering. There is desire to make someone happy, there is admiration, there is ostentation…and there is a company’s profit curve.”
“Human life is fragile: we live in the space between one breath and the next. We often try to maintain an illusion of permanence, through what we do, say... how we enjoy ourselves... Yet it is an illusion that is constantly being undermined by change and death.”
Source: Jewels: A Secret History
“Human life is full of the play of samskaras - tendencies developed by repeated actions.”
“Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly.”
Source: Addresses on International Subjects
“Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.”
“Human life is inherently creative. It's why we all have different résumés. … It's why human culture is so interesting and diverse and dynamic.”
“Human life is inherently dualistic. It consists of or is explicable as two fundamental entities, including rivalries between subject and object, mind and matter, and conflict between the benevolent and the malevolent forces. Opposition in the universe creates a dynamic living universe composed of good and evil, body and soul. Human thoughts and feelings are the communal products of the conscious and unconscious mind’s interpretation of a constant flow of coded and symbolic dialogue.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Human life is just dangerous, in general. You know, waking up in the morning, you could get hit by a car. Wherever you go, you could choke on a fish bone and die. You never know.”
“Human life is limited but I would like to live forever.”
“Human life is limited, but knowledge is limitless. To drive the limited in pursuit of the limitless is fatal; and to presume that one really knows is fatal indeed!”
“Human life is not for suffering criticism. If it is the truth and there is no nagging or insistence upon it, others will accept it in their hearts. And if it is the truth and you nag or insist upon it, it will not touch others.”
“Human life is not some sort of race or game in which each person should start from an identical mark. It is an attempt by each man to be as happy as possible. And each person could not begin from the same point, for the world has not just come into being; it is diverse and infinitely varied in its parts. The mere fact that one individual is necessarily born in a different place from someone else immediately insures that his inherited opportunity cannot be the same as his neighbor's.”
“Human life is now molded to a large extent by the changes that man has brought about in his external environment and by his attempts at controlling body and soul.”
“Human life is precious; the life of a child even more so. Knowing that your grasp is the only thing that separates a child from life and death is a heavy burden. Although it may take a split second, those times feel like hours when you are praying that you are making the right choice. Should I wait for more help? Can she hang on long enough? What if the river pulls her from me? What if she can’t hold her breath long enough? What if she panics and tries to break free?
These types of questions and fears run through a person’s mind when they are trying to save someone. For a police officer, the decision has an even greater impact. He will be judged. If he can’t hold on, if she can’t hold her breath or the river takes her, he will be judged. He will be stupid for not waiting, he will be weak for not holding on tight enough, and he will be prosecuted in the court of public opinion without being able to defend himself. His picture will be displayed on the news alongside the image of the dead, innocent child.
You have seconds to decide. What will it be? Will you risk your life, your reputation, and your future to save this child or do you wait?
If you wait and she is lost, you still lose. This is the riddle of law enforcement: finding a way to do the right thing and succeeding at it, without upsetting or injuring anyone.”
Source: Hearts Beneath the Badge
“Human life is precious, sublime and meaningful. But by involvement in purely worldly pursuits, the greatness of human birth is forgotten. Without human values, life is meaningless. When there is purity in thought, word and deed, human values are practised. The unity of the three H's is essential. 'Heart, Head and Hand. ' But today this unity is absent among people, with the result that men are becoming inhuman.”
“Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.”
Source: The nature of the physical world
“Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.”
Source: Steppenwolf: A Novel
“Human life is short, we don't exist all that much. A pale brief flicker in the dark.”
Source: The Message To The Planet
“Human life is so full of pain, that once past the youthful delusion that a sad countenance is interesting, and an incurable woe the most delightful thing possible, the mind instinctively turns where it can get rest, and cheer and sunshine. And the friend who can bring to it the largest portion of these is, of a natural necessity, the most useful, the most welcome, and the most dear.”
“Human life is so strangely constituted that even perfected intellectual understanding combined with the richest experience is incapable of conquering innate weaknesses. Even if it thoroughly analyzes itself, psychology (and this is one of the dubious aspects of psychoanalysis) can, to be sure, recognize its flawed native characteristics, but it cannot eliminate them. Understanding (them) is not the same as overcoming (them) and, again and again, we see the wisest of human beings helpless in the fact of their small follies which everyone else observes with a smile.”
“Human life is the only thing that takes care of itself.”
“Human life is the result of a glorious evolutionary accident.”
“Human life is thus only a perpetual illusion; men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does of us in our absence. Human society is founded on mutual deceit; few friendships would endure if each knew what his friend said of him in his absence, although he then spoke in sincerity and without passion.”
Source: Pascal's Pensees
“Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.”
“Human life is too difficult for people.”
Source: A Lucky American Childhood
“Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.”
Source: Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
“Human life is under the absolute dominion of two mighty principles, fear and hope, and that any one who can make these serve his ends may be sure of rapid fortune.”
“Human life is worth preserving. But human lives? They come and go like so much chaff, never tipping the scales."
"What a remarkable calculation," said Nikolai. "And a convenient one for a mass murderer.”
Source: Rule of Wolves
“Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.”
Source: Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations
“Human life lay foul before men's eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion's weight.”
Source: On the Nature of Things
“Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Hazlitt
“Human life might be predestined or susceptible to a modicum of alteration through a determined act of free will. Who is the warden controlling my fate? Can I create a new self-governing overseer to guide me through an underground tunnel of repressed desire? Can I inculcate myself from a diseased mind by discovering freedom from suffering? Can I chisel out a paradigmatic way to live righteously? Can I cut a groove in my heart and discover the lightness of soul that I seek? Can I discover a hidden key of enlightenment that allows me to manumit my enslaved spirit? Can I put an end to the atrocious evilness that haunts my existence? Can I burn a neural route through my brain that releases the intolerable pressure searing my tattered soul?”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Human life must always be defended from its beginning in the womb and must be recognised as a gift of God that guarantees the future of humanity.”
“Human life must be some form of mistake.”
“Human life occurs only once, and the reason we cannot determine which of our decisions are good and which bad is that in a given situation we can make only one decision; we are not granted a second, third, or fourth life in which to compare various decisions.”
“Human life on earth is like that of an egg turning into a caterpillar. Death is like the chrysalis stage, and resurrection delivers a radically different creature – the beautiful soul-butterfly.”
Source: Soul Science: Know Your Soul
“Human life, Rousseau understood, begins not in democracy but in monarchy. The baby, on whom caregivers ardently dote, has no way of surviving except by making slaves of others. Babies are so weak that they must either rule or die. Incapable of shared work or reciprocity, they can get things only by commands and threats, and by exploiting the worshipful love given them by others. (In letters, Rousseau made it clear that this was why he abandoned his children: he just didn’t have time to be at a baby’s beck and call.)”
Source: The Monarchy of Fear: A Philosopher Looks at Our Political Crisis
“Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.”
“Human life spans, regrettably, were a couple of centuries too short for patience to stop being a virtue and become a habit.”
Source: Star Wars: The Last Jedi
“Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments.”
“Human life without some form of poetry is not human life but animal existence.”
“Human life, from the cradle to the grave, is a school. At every period of his existence man wants a teacher. His pilgrimage upon earth is but a term of childhood, in which he is to be educated for the manhood of a brighter world. As the child must be educated for manhood upon earth, so the man must be educated upon earth, for heaven; and finally that where the foundation is not laid in time, the superstructure can not rise for eternity.”