315 Quotes About Human-condition

He was feeling something we all feel once in a while: why me?

Perhaps the messiness of life makes a nonsense of morality.

We have all been exiled from something or someone. I think this is a human condition

By their ignorance people enfranchise their exploiters.

How petty seemed to me the human condition, that we were subject to this constant struggle to modulate the internal environment, this endless being tossed around like a cloud.

To be fully human is to be able to acknowledge both strengths and weaknesses and to be unafraid of being vulnerable in the meeting with another person.

My father once told me that the dynamics of the Agulhas current was called Retroflection; the movement of an ocean current that doubles back on itself.

He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in the world in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree

Modern man is rather like a bisected wasp which goes on sucking jam and pretends that the loss of its abdomen does not matter