Quotes of: Being-used Keyword

I’m so fucking tired of being alone. I was scared that he’d tell me to fucking leave. Because that means going back to a life I can’t see for myself anymore.

Hothouse Flower

HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT BOREDOM. (Death)

Hogfather

I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be.

The Hunger Games

Integrity is a life where your beliefs and intentions are aligned with your words and actions.

How to Find Yourself, Love Yourself, & Be Yourself: The Secret Instruction Manual for Being Human

I predict we will abolish suffering throughout the living world. Our descendants will be animated by gradients of genetically pre-programmed well-being that are orders of magnitude richer than today's peak experiences.

The Hedonistic Imperative

People have always wanted to 'improve' human beings; for the most part, this has been called morality.

The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols & Other Writings

Wrong is an addictive, repetitive story; Right is where the movement is.

Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming

If you're not honest with your work — if you're being merely decorative — then the world will know. People intuit honest work. They know when they are being tricked by clever metaphors . . . by dishonesty in the artist.

Broken Colors

Tom has a theory that homosexuals and single women in their thirties have natural bonding: both being accustomed to disappointing their parents and being treated as freaks by society.

Bridget Jones's Diary

There comes a time when you just have to be willing to decide what is more important to you and leave behind the things that stand in your way or hold you back from being yourself.

Beginnings End

People are not being reached in the context of the body of Christ--they're like newborn babies being left on a doorstep somewhere to feed and care for themselves.

Becoming Orthodox: A Journey to the Ancient Christian Faith

...the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily.

Blindness

Being sensitive and kind are admirable pursuits…and so are knowing when you’re being taking advantage of and simply walking away.

Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

Simplicity is everywhere in nature, and meditation is a natural state. Meditation is a state of peaceful equilibrium, the fourth state of consciousness, and is always available to every single human being.

Baby Steps to Meditation

I’ve never had a rat, never chased one. I chase my own tail and that’s enough. I must now make plans for the day I catch it.

On Being a Rat and Other Observations

Nonfiction. I didn’t choose it as much as it chose me. It squatted and birthed me one raw winter day then jerked me up and set me to scribing.

On Being a Rat and Other Observations

Love was as flawed and terrible and beautiful as we were. To be alive meant looking for it in ourselves and in others, an imperfection searching for an impossible perfection. Because in that journey was where truth resided. Love wasn’t about being ...

Breaker

They were relieved that I was chosen by a human being," she'd said to Angelica in her dry voice. "They were braced for an interspecies liaison.

Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories

It has been said in this courtroom that only a human being can be free. It seems to me that only someone who wishes for freedom can be free. I wish for freedom.

The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories

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.

The Book Thief

There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.

Charlie Kaufman