Nature of man Quote by Mary Shelley

“What should one do with the misery of the world in a scheme of the agreeable for one's self?”

— Henry James

“This is a badly broken world, full of wars and cruelty and senseless tragedy. Every human being who inhabits it is served his or…

— Stephen King

“All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters…

— Adam Smith

“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

“in general, from the violation of a few simple laws of humanity arises the wretchedness of mankind - that as a species we have…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Tragedy, in its full and life-altering form, happened to other people.”

— Michelle Richmond

“We are a wretched, petty species, and we have been given power to destroy ourselves with.”

— wildbow

“Such miserable creatures of circumstance are we all!”

— Thomas Hardy

“Sometimes, we inflict misery on others no matter how hard we try not to.”

— Lilas Taha

“Mankind’s biggest tragedy is apathy. The settlement with inequality, wars, and madness is the mirror of it.”

— Stephan Attia

“all the sorrow and trouble of this world is caused by unhappy people.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“The extreme affliction which overtakes human beings does not create human misery, it merely reveals it.”

— Simone Weil