Human condition Quote by Bella Forrest

“It showed him how people continued to endure, even in the hardest circumstances imaginable, when everything else had been taken away. The world either…

— Bella Forrest

“Everything now had been taken from him, his striving after goodness, his hopes, his pride, even that human revenge upon fate--to destroy his own…

— Tanith Lee

“He had lost the capacity of personal suffering, or he thought he had, and could only be hurt truly by what happened to others.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“He was beyond damaged. He was broken. Smashed to bloody pieces. He was alone in the world without the one person who could make…

— Jennifer Donnelly

“Every man and woman he saw, even at a distance, gave him a twist of panic. But he had already grown used to that;…

— V.S. Naipaul

“Everyone had an ulterior motive in his worldview. Everyone was self-serving and therefore a potential instrument of pain. The world was a lonely, awful,…

— Jeremy Dyson

“We were enemies to the core, more so now than ever, but my loss was his. When I suffered, he suffered. It was the…

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

“And if the world refused to square with his version of reality then it was necessarily an uncaring world, a sour and sickening world,…

— Jonathan Franzen

“He looked like a being who'd voyaged back through time from a world that had overcome illness, pain, and conflict.”

— Walter Kirn

“He was flooded with power - power like pain. When it rises beyond any possible point of pleasure - like victory. Like defeat, like…

— Miles Cameron

“He no longer yearned for his life in the cave. He had experienced that life once and it had proved unlivable. Just as had…

— Patrick Süskind

“Suffering, he thought later, could rob a man of his empathy, could turn him selfish, could make him depreciate all other sufferers.”

— Eleanor Catton