Human Condition Quotes

"The world is always ending, for someone." "The miserable have no other medicine, but only hope." "As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport." "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." "The entire life of man is a struggle in the dark" "Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve" "Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing" "The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth." "You don't pass or fail at being a person." "I wonder if life is ever lived well by anybody, if there is any one thing that might be called a success—except survival." "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs" "Dust unto dust, to this end we must come" "World history is not the ground of happiness. The periods of happiness are the blank pages of history." "Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone." "All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in" "How frail the human heart must be a mirrored pool of thought " "I am aware that life is absurd. It’s just a contest between people enjoying their various symptoms." "The average man does not know what to do with this life yet wants another one which will last forever" "The dead, I think, may be at peace, but we'll live with their wrath forever and have to endure the employment of the living to constantly remind us of it." "Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret"