Human Condition Quotes

"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide." "Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man" "A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die" "If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever" "That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt" "Homo sapiens does its best to forget the fact, but it is an animal" "Life is wasted on the living." "The goal of psychoanalysis is to turn neurotic misery into ordinary human unhappiness." "Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident." "One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life." "The greatest flaw of humankind is our inability to control our desires." "We are everlastingly in the world of objects; worse than that, we are objectified in objects. Humanity has become a production of artificial experiences and sensations." "Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom." "The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom." "All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone" "The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster" "The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague" "Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence" "Reader, memory inevitably fails you." "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage."