25 result(s) for All Men’s Miseries Quotes.
"The natural state of mankind is a state of war."
"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."
"The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."
"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."
"To be, or not to be, that is the question."
"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?"
"What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world. The paragon of animals. And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?"
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"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does."
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."
"I am a most unhappy man. I am imprisoned in a body that I detest, bound by chains of my own making."
"Misery is the river of the world. Misery is greater than happiness."
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
"The knowledge of death is the parent of all wisdom."
"Wherever I go, I find that a poet has been there before me."
"There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, So just give me a happy middle And a very happy start."
"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."
"Modern man thinks he loses something – time – when he does not do things quickly; yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains except kill it."
"Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go."
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."
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"All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone."
"That man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man’s achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins—all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul’s habitation henceforth be safely built."
"Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is."
"The history of men's opposition to emancipation of women is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself."
