Apathetic Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he…

— Blaise Pascal

All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.

— Blaise Pascal

There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose, without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is that he…

— Blaise Pascal

Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then feels his…

— Blaise Pascal

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then that he…

— Blaise Pascal

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he…

— Thomas Carlyle

The source of man's unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.

— Baron d'Holbach

“For human nature is such that grief and pain—even simultaneously suffered—do not add up as a whole in our consciousness, but hide, the lesser…

— Primo Levi

The cause of most of man's unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more…

— Andre Gide

On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at Court or at war,…

— Blaise Pascal