Human Experience Quotes

“Where's your church?"
"We're standing in it."
"But this is a bookstore and it's a Friday."
"Yes, but you might also choose to see it as a cathedral of the human spirit-a storehouse consecrated to the full spectrum of human experience. Just about every idea we've ever had is in here somewhere. A place containing great thinking is a sacred space.”
― Forrest Church, A Chosen Faith: An Introduction to Unitarian Universalism

“Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs about us. Later, stories about us. Part of what we always did was have sex and fight about it and break each other’s hearts. I guess there’s other kinds of love too. Great friendships. Working together. But poetry and novels are lists of our devotions. We love the feel of making the marks as the feelings are rising and falling. Living in literature and love is the best thing there is. You’re always home.”
― Eileen Myles

“No doubt, humans will do a lot of damage before we ultimately destroy ourselves. But life will continue without humans. New forms of intelligence will emerge long after this human experiment is over.”
― Zeena Schreck, Beatdom #11: The Nature Issue

“Our brains are so conditioned through education, through religion, to think we are separate entities with separate souls and so on. We are not individuals at all. We are the result of thousands of years of human experience, human endeavor and struggle.”
― J. Krishnamurti, The Krishnamurti Reader

“Our identities are as fluid as our personal experiences are diverse.”
― Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“Sooner or later, everybody dreams of other worlds.”
― J. Aleksandr Wootton, Her Unwelcome Inheritance

“There you go again, declaring the exact inverse of your experience. You human pups are so full of the things you're sure of. Sit down and listen for a change.”
― J. Aleksandr Wootton, Her Unwelcome Inheritance

“Whatever its future success as a historical movement, anarchism will remain a fundamental part of human experience, for the drive for freedom is one of our deepest needs and the vision of a free society is one of our oldest dreams. Neither can ever be fully repressed; both will outlive all rulers and their States.”
― Peter Marshall, Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism

“There is also hope that even in these days of increasing specialization there is a unity in the human experience.”
― Allan McLeod Cormack