Quotes about being

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“We're supposed to be making up this stuff, playing at being in love, not actually being in love.”

“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”

“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.”

“Next to being married, a girl likes being crossed in love a little now and again.”

“Having chosen this foolishness, I was a free being. How could the world ever stop me, how could I betray myself, if I was not afraid?”

“Sometimes this human stuff is slimy and pathetic… but better to feel it and talk about it and walk through it than to spend a lifetime being silently poisoned.”

“Henceforth, whenever we are threatened with being cast adrift upon love’s transcendent, golden shore, I want you to slap my face.”

“Surely being in love doesn't cause you to lose your sense of good taste. If I ever buy a gown with sequins on it, someone just shoot me.”

“for some reason, dying men always ask the question they know the answer to. perhaps it's so they can die being right.”

“You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.”

“It's hard to give up the being together with someone.”

“Things can turn out differently, Apollo. That's the nice thing about being human. We only have one life, but we can choose what kind of story it's going to be.”

“I simply believe that a book has a journey to make, and should not be condemned to being stuck on a shelf… Let’s leave our books free to travel, then, to be touched by other hands, and enjoyed by other eyes.”

“Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.”

“Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything.”

“Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.”

“Thank you, sir, but I am perfectly content being the bride of death.”

“Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings.”

“I am completely a loner. In my head I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a loner allows me.”

“I live in fear of being alive.”

“And then their voices stopped and their souls stood still and they ceased being who they had been. Because who they were had always been determined by him.”

“Language has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.”

“Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader—not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.”

“Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.”

“We are never so poor that we cannot bless another human being, are we? So it is that every evil, whether moral or material, results in good. You'll see.”

“Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him.”

“It's not easy being so frightened of everything. And when I think of how much I've improved in the last year, I wonder when I'll ever get finished with making changes and be really grown up.”

“My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.”

“Human beings are millions of things in one day.”

“Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.”

“Mmm, he rumbled into my ear. I thought that being married meant that I never go to bed hungry.”

“Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.”

“Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world's excuse for being ugly.”

“I love being single. It's almost like being rich.”

“Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.”

“They wanted to have a good time, but they were like children playing in the street; they could see one after another of them being killed—run over, maimed, destroyed—but they continued to play anyhow.”

“For as long as he could remember, he’d suffered from a vague nagging feeling of being not all there.”

“That's the thing about being a victim; you start to think it'll happen to you on a regular basis. It's living with the reality of your own vulnerability, and it sucks.”

“People sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake.”

“Though the funny thing about never being asked for anything is that after a while you start to feel like maybe you don’t have anything worth giving.”

“I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.”

“I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.”

“Being employed is like being loved: you know that somebody's thinking about you the whole time.”

“Not being heard is no reason for silence.”

“Being enough was going to have to be an inside job.”

“Human beings can't see anything without wanting to destroy it. That's original sin. And I'm going to destroy it. Death is going to die.”

“We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.”

“Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.”

“Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.”

“Remember, despite the fact that this book is being sold as a 'fantasy' novel, you must take all of the things it says extremely seriously, as they are quite important, are in no way silly, and always make sense.

Rutabaga.”

“The real problem with being around James was that he was always the hero. And what did that make you? Either the sidekick or the villain.”

“The first of the
line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants.”

“I love being with you. When we're not together, i wish we were”

“There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.”

“I don't want our relationship to end like this. You're one of the very few friends I have, and it hurts not being able to see you. When am I going to be able to talk to you? I want you to tell me that much, at least.”

“Enthusiats are used to being mocked, maligned and misunderstood. We don't really mind.”

“… some people aren't worth the trouble of being kind to, because they have neither the brains nor the power to make something for themselves out of your kindness.”

“We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.”

“I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.”

“If it comes down to a choice between being unloved and being vulnerable and sensitive and emotional, then you can just keep your love.”

“There’s glory and honour in being chosen. But not much room for free will”

“To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.”

“I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it.”

“being physically intimidating didn't keep you from getting your feelings hurt. Everyone's heart is the same size.”

“Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagination at all;”

“Being with you is the best thing that's ever happened to me, the one perfect decision I've made in a lifetime of fumbling and poor judgment. I'd go through it all again to be by your side. Never doubt that. Never doubt how I feel about you.”

“There are all sorts of dream interpretations, Freud's being the most notorious, but I have always believed they served a simple eliminatory function, and not much more - that dreams are the psyche's way of taking a good dump every now and then.”

“The key to being a warrior is not to be afraid of who you are.”

“Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.”

“In years to come, he would be a giver of bread, not a stealer - proof again of the contradictory human being. So much good, so much evil. Just add water.”

“Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that. Revealed faith is not harmless nonsense, it can be lethally dangerous nonsense. Dangerous because it gives people unshakeable confidence in their own righteousness. Dangerous because it gives them false courage to kill themselves, which automatically removes normal barriers to killing others. Dangerous because it teaches enmity to others labelled only by a difference of inherited tradition. And dangerous because we have all bought into a weird respect, which uniquely protects religion from normal criticism. Let's now stop being so damned respectful!”

“But then I had long mistaken being spoiled for being strong, being defiant for being independent, being reckless for being brave.”

“The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar… Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.”

“I'll ride my bike all the stinkin' way to school for the rest of eternity if it means being with her.

-Bryce”

“It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.”

“I’m not unsympathetic. But do you like me? Because this being gay business doesn’t mean you can just throw yourself at any guy and it’ll be fine because he’s not a girl. There are still people you like and people you don’t.”

“I like the fact of John McCain's head being severed. Like that it will fit so much more nicely up George Bush's butt!”

“If there were an honorable way to get rich, I’d do it, even if it meant being a stooge standing around with a whip. But there isn’t an honorable way, so I just do what I like.”

“Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.”

“Believe me, Being gay is not a choice. Noone would choose to make life harder than it has to be.”

“Despite everything, I can’t bear the thought of this ring being lost forever, any more than I can bear the thought of leaving you forever. And though I have no choice about the one, at least I can choose about the other.”

“Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”

“She didn't like to be alone. Even more, she didn't like being with people. (148)”

“They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation.”

“Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.”

“But nothing disturbs the feeling of specialness like the presence of other human beings feeling identically special.”

“If one believed in angels one would feel that they must love us best when we are asleep and cannot hurt each other; and what a mercy it is that once in every twenty-four hours we are too utterly weary to go on being unkind.”

“Better than chocolate, being with you last night. Silly me, I thought that nothing was better than chocolate.”

“Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.”

“[…][I]f you adapted too much in order to deal with them, you ran the risk of forgetting who you were and you could end up being neither and nothing.”

“What is a friend if not someone you feel close to, someone you like being with, someone you can confide in and share pleasure with.

-Jeremy Malory”

“Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.”

“… crazy world or maybe it's just the view we have of it, looking through a crack in the door, never being able to see the whole room, the whole picture.”

“Loneliness is not being alone, It's loving others to no avail.”

“I’ve never heard of a man being so eager to confess to the parent of a girl he’s just ruined”

“She's talking about herself in the third person because the idea of being who she is, of acknowledging that she is herself, is more than her pride can take.”

“I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best.”

“Being scared isn't the problem. It's not running away that's the hard part.”

“The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.”