George Eliot Quotes

I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.

Death and sex are the dominant reality of our day.

Everything that we have gone through, are going through, and will go through is there in Shakespeare. It is all of human life.

For in the works of Robert Burns we see the whole cosmos of man's experience and emotion, from zenith to nadir, from birth until death.

Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.

My point of view when I make a book or I make a movie is to see the humanistic point of view. The point of view of the daily life of normal people.

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.

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.

'Cloud Atlas' is for everybody. The main character in the movie is humanity.

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is.

No matter where we are or how advanced we think we are, there are elemental issues of our civilization that stories help us work through.

If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently.

I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.

'Cloud Atlas' is for everybody. The main character in the movie is humanity.

The human condition is the human condition, and what we try to do is illuminate the human condition.

I think there's always some good reason to try and modernize most period things, because at the end of the day, they may have, I suppose, used a different language or a different etiquette, but ultimately, these are still people that loved and breathed and lived and ate and weed and pooed just like we do now.

I love how 'Game of Thrones' has resonated with so many people around the world. I feel like it has really tapped into our need to hear stories about the human condition, love, death, good, evil... For me, it really is a modern version of the old Greek theatre or cave men sitting around fires telling stories.

The human condition is endlessly fascinating to me, and the existential horrors of life are what drive our imaginations and theater in general.

Even though we look at the past through the lens of distance and think that because people are wearing different clothes or have different technology, their experiences are different, it's all the same, right? Our experience of love and sex and death are the same in any time period.

I have been in lots of very intense life situations. I have been shot at, and I have been hungry, and I have been in solitude, and I have also briefly been behind bars. So in a way, I know the heart of men.

The hearts of all men dwell in the same wilderness.

Nothing human is foreign to us

Anything that has to deal with our mortality is always going to be interesting to us. Life and death is always going to be something that draws our attention.