Human condition Quotes

"The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth" "We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love." "Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?" "The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains" "He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man" "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."