Francois Rabelais Quotes

Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.

Growing up, we tend to challenge each other. We've got to be the toughest, the strongest, the bravest men that we can be. And for many of us, myself included, our identities are wrapped up in whether or not at the end of the day we feel like we're man enough.

I'm a man at the end of the day.

Being a male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of choice.

How can I be a man if there is no role model?

If you're a man, you don't have to worry about your manliness.

I live, like every real man, in my work.

'The 5th Wave' is sci-fi, but I tried very hard to ground the story in very human terms and in those universal themes that transcend genre. How do we define ourselves? What, exactly, does it mean to be human? What remains after everything we trust, everything we believe in and rely upon, has been stripped away?

A guy should be a guy. You don't want him to be too... shiny.

How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

If I stay in here until I am 100 years olds, I will still be a man.

I am what survives of me.

There are alternate definitions of manhood in the West.

With slow-moving zombies, what always comes at stake is our humanity.

A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.

I want to figure out myself as a man.

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.

I like being able to be a man.

In order to endure death and horror one tends to kill ones own humanity, which is a much greater danger than not being able to bear it.

When men cease to fight — they cease to be — Men

Before man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.

I like guys who, no matter what, are men.

I guess I just do being a man different than some.

I'm a human being and I'm a man, so don't disrespect me.

I feel like you don't have to go through jail, that's not part of bein' a man.