Samuel Johnson Quotes

People have hearts, they have kids, they get jobs, they get sick, they cry, they dance. They live, they love, and they die. And that matters.

You have but mistook me all the while... I live by bread like you, taste grief, feel want, need friends. Conditioned thus how can you call me king?

I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being.

As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things that happen to virtually all of us are the things that happen on a daily basis. Not the traumas.

Pity addresses the perceived suffering, not the whole individual.

I may be a public figure, but really, I'm just like a guy who could be in your family and have some difficult things happen to him.

I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.

When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.

I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.

I happen to go for the simplest, most ordinary things. The extraordinary doesn't interest me. I'm not interested in psychotics. I'm interested in the person you don't expect to have a story. I like Everyman.

My depression is not something very special. A lot of people go through depression. My divorce is not something very special; a lot of people go through divorce.

People forget that I'm a human being, just because I play a sport that everybody loves. We're human. We're not invincible. We share the same feelings and emotions that people on the outside feel. I don't think people really understand that.

I am just a normal human being - I am alive! Why is anyone surprised that I am human? Like many New Yorkers, I have a multifaceted life.

Everybody has a tragedy or two in their lives.

I'm just a guy. If you hit me, I hurt, and if you cut me, I bleed.

People see footballers as different beings, as if we're untouchable, as if nothing ever happens to us, but we're people. Of course we're privileged, but in the tangibles, we're the same.

All of the trials and tribulations from personal to the artist. It shows that I'm human. People see the glamorous stuff, but they don't see the background.

Most of life is sad.

I'm just a regular person, like any other ordinary person is.

Loss is something that I think is ultimately the number one struggle for humans.

We are human and regular people at the end of the day. We're not immune from the trials and tribulations that go on through life.

We're all human; we all have weaknesses.

I hate Sridevi. I hate her for making me realise that she, too, is finally only just a human being. I hate that her heart, too, has to beat to live.

Sometimes you're just regular. Sometimes you wake up, and your breath stinks like everybody else, and you had a bad hair day.

I'm human just like everyone.