Bent Quote by Hamilton Wright Mabie

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

— Blaise Pascal

There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind,…

— Isaac Asimov

Once man has lost the fundamental orientation which unifies his existence, he breaks down into the multiplicity of his desires; in refusing to await…

— Pope Francis

A man seems never to know what anything means till he has lost it; and this I suppose is the reason why losses--vanishing away…

— Orville Dewey

“Man is the sole and absolute master of his own fate forever. What he has sown in the times of his ignorance, he must…

— Paul Bragg

“Man’s development requires his capacity to transcend the narrow prison of his ego, his greed, his selfishness, his separation from his fellow man, and,…

— Erich Fromm

“With growing sorrow and fear, the poor man painfully saw how wasted and empty the life that lay behind him had become. It no…

— Hermann Hesse

Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless.

— Eugene Ionesco

The man who seeks one thing in life and but one, May hope to achieve it before life is done; But he who seeks…

— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

“Since [man's] true nature has been lost, anything can become his nature: similarly, true good being lost, anything can become his true good.”

— Blaise Pascal

Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.

— Pope John Paul II

To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of…

— Eric Hoffer