Human Condition Quotes

"Death is the winner, there's no point denying that" "People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true" "Hell is other people" "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" "You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read" "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" "The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation." "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."