Human condition Quotes

"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." "Death is the winner, there's no point denying that" "People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true" "We are all born mad. Some remain so." "You're on earth. There's no cure for that." "Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made"