Human Journey Quotes

They lived in a great city, a metropolis of many narratives that converged briefly and then separated for ever, discovering their different dooms in that crowd of stories through which all of us, following our own destinies, had to push and shove to find our way through, or out.

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

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

A recorded past is no more than a bygone present composed of the footprints made by human beings actually going somewhere but not knowing (in any extended sense), and certainly not revealing to us, how, they came to be afoot on these particular journeys.

I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.

I'm constantly trying to work on the person that I am and work on my shortcomings, and I guess I want people to know that it's ok to be a work in progress, as long as you keep trying to figure it out. But that search and that discovery is what makes life kind of rich, and it's what makes life rich... period.

The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom. ... [T]he sciences serve us for oars.

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance.

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

It's important to see people as being on a journey.

I acknowledge that we are all human and are on a journey. We are not born perfect, mistakes are inevitable.

People think you have to go through a lot of changes to become a soul singer, You just have to go through life.

The news of life is carried via telephone. A baby's birth, a couple engaged, a tragic car accident on a late night highway - most milestones of the human journey, good or bad, are foreshadowed by the sound of a ringing.

Maybe life was like a sea, and all the people were like boats ... Everybody who was born was cast into the sea. Winds would blow them in all directions. Tides would rise and turn, in their own rhythm. And the boats - they just went along as best they could, trying to find a harbor.

I relate to people and roles that are about the arc of human experience, things that everyday people deal with every day.

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

Your actions are not in a vacuum. They impact other people. It may be in a way that's less obvious than in mainstream movies, but it comes to an understanding of who those people are. It also leaves it open to interpretation. And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.

History is the narrative of people searching for a place to go.

The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history.

I am convinced that we humans are just at the beginning of our journey, on our way to becoming something more wonderful than we can imagine.

I wrote about wasting time, which I suppose is a part of the great human journey. We're supposed to wallow, to go through the desert without water for a long time so that when we finally drink it, we'll truly need it and we won't spill a drop. It's about being present.

I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history.

For me, I start at the place that my characters are human. I start at the place that they are onions that are layered and meant to be peeled, just as we as human beings are.

For me, what works well about 'Life in a Day' is that it's emotionally affecting without being manipulative. It really does make you think about the connectivity of the world, the similarities and differences. It shows the experiences we all go through: birth, childhood, falling in love, having kids, getting ill, dying.