Being Quotes

One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.

My music is about being strong, even in your vulnerability.

The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being compelled by habit and inertia to choose the wrong thing.

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

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.

I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

I've always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I'm most afraid of, though, is being alone, which I think a lot of performers fear. It's why we seek the limelight - so we're not alone, were adored. We're loved, so people want to be around us. The fear of being alone drives my life.

What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.

A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much.

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed.

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after.

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

One is often guilty by being too just.

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.

I don't mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it's not necessarily a perk, but there are certain perks to being well-known and respected in one's field. Public perks. Like, I don't know, general friendliness and willingness to please, just to point out two.

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.

I realize that homosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is - but then, of course, heterosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is, too. And being a man is a serious problem and being a woman is, too. Lots of things are problems.

I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.

Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.