Robertson Davies Quotes

I'm totally human.

There are things you have to look at with those world-class players, but at the end of the day, they're not superheroes. They're still human.

The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation.

Only human, after all.

There's no victory-condition for being human.

can't blame a man for being human when human is all he'll ever be!

My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at times.

People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

What am I? Do I know? I am a man: quite simply, a 'breather.'

I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out that it's a great lens with which to understand what matters to us.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.

Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.

Because we're human beings, we're not always going to be perfect.

You're on earth. There's no cure for that.

There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.

Despite what everyone thinks about science fiction, ultimately, at its best, it's about human beings with human emotions.

Unfortunately I am a human being and not a robot.

Yes, I do believe that human beings are not perfect.

Man is an extraordinarily fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only by tradition and organisation that anything decent can be got out of him.

The meaningless absurdity of life is the only incontestable knowledge accessible to man.

There are too many possibilities, if you can't die. If you're playing a normal human being, there's always that.

I've always been interested in our flaws as human beings, just as much as the virtues.

Man in the flesh is essentially imperfect. He may be described as being made in the image of God but is far from being God.