Authorship Quote by John Dryden

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other; besides, I…

— Anne Bronte

Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Though a man excels in everything, unless he has been a lover his life is lonely, and he may be likened to a jewelled…

— Yoshida Kenko

I drink out of desperation. Life is too dreary to endure. The misery, loneliness, crampedness - they're heartbreaking.[...] What feelings do you suppose a…

— Osamu Dazai

“Man is not a being whose exclusive purpose in life is eating, drinking, and providing a shelter for himself. As soon as his material…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

Once a man has tasted creative action, then thereafter, no matter how safely he schools himself in patience, he is restive, acutely dissatisfied with…

— Jean Toomer

Even if man's hunger and thirst and his sexual strivings are completely satisfied, 'he' is not satisfied. In contrast to the animal his most…

— Erich Fromm

A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.

— Anonymous

That man alone loves himself rightly who procures the greatest possible good to himself through the whole of his existence and so pursues pleasure…

— Benjamin Franklin

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

— Anonymous

Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair.

— Leo Buscaglia

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other.

— Anne Bronte