Human Condition Quotes

"The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation." "In mourning, it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia, it is the ego itself." "Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness." "The proper study of mankind is man" "Take a good look around and you'll see, everybody trying hard to feel free." "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." "Nobody dies a virgin... Life fucks us all" "Suffering is civilization" "What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love." "Existence precedes and rules essence" "Hell is other people" "Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance" "Everything has been figured out, except how to live." "I am condemned to be free." "Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering, and that is a fact." "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"