Human condition Quotes

"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" "What is there that is too dirty, too sordid, too depressing to be read about or spoken of? If literature cannot deal with the grimy underbelly of life, then what is it for?" "A person is born with desires. If those desires are not satisfied, he will seek to satisfy them." "For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom." "In the face of pain there are no heroes." "A noble craft but somehow a most melancholy All noble things are touched with that"