Ellen Bass Quotes

I don't feel invincible because I'm human.

Life is an incurable disease.

My theory about actors is we're all walking milk cartons. Expirations dates everywhere.

What, if as said, man is a bubble.

At the end of the day, we came into the world naked, and that's the way we're going to go.

A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.

We're all gonna lie, we're all gonna cry, and we're all gonna take painful shits.

Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying.

What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

And so do people pass out of one's life and all you can remember of them is their humanity, a poor fitful thing of no dominion, like your own.

I'm only human, and I bleed when I fall down.

No man or woman alive, magical or not, has ever escaped some form of injury, whether physical, mental, or emotional. To hurt is as human as to breathe.

I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone.

When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.

Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.

This planet Earth, the act of putting a roof over our heads, our flesh and blood existence, it's all very temporary.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.

We civilizations now know ourselves mortal.

Nothing is surer than that the people will be weak.

The fact that we're all here in these bodies means that we're not perfected.

I'm interested in the ways that we're all broken.

I feel our relationship to life, to the rest of the world, is very tenuous. It feels fleeting.

We're all human; we all have weaknesses.