Depressing Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

'Existence' is about the world of roughly 2050, and terrible things have happened, but guess what? People have reacted to the terrible things by…

— David Brin

Two things have always been true about human beings. One, the world is always getting better. Two, the people living at that time think…

— Penn Jillette

The world is a bad place. There are many wonderful people, but on the whole, humanity basically stinks.

— Dennis Prager

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

— Abraham Maslow

As humans we make mistakes, expect life to automatically meet all of our needs, and imagine our environment will stay wonderful without extra effort…

— Catherine Basten

Each one of us was harmed by being brought into existence. That harm is not negligible, because the quality of even the best lives…

— David Benatar

Human beings, whatever their backgrounds, are more open than we think, that their behavior cannot be confidently predicted from their past, that we are…

— Howard Zinn

Humanity thinks it needs to constantly evolve so that maybe someday, old age and sickness will be eradicated from existence. However, our folly isnt…

— Melchor Lim

Human beings are strange creatures. As people come across one another they produce various outcomes. Good things, sometimes. And other times, bad.

— Natsuki Takaya

The condition of humankind is not good, in the sense that the illusory prisons we create for ourselves through our desires and our frustrations…

— Frederick Lenz

I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible.

— Elie Wiesel

Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again.

— Veronica Roth