Existence Quote by O. Henry

There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavour of life until he has known poverty, love and war. The justness…

— O. Henry

“All men are hungry. They always have been. They must eat, and when they deny themselves the pleasures of carrying out that need, they…

— Anonymous

Without that innate sense of human worth, a man cannot long endure adversity, nor can he long enjoy prosperity.

— Confucius

“Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.”

— André Gide

“He was convinced that poverty was the only way of life for a certain category of people; they would die without it.”

— Ninotchka Rosca

“Even if a man has everything - money, power, the key to eternal life - he still is nothing if he is without a…

— Latrivia S. Nelson

“Now he understood that a man never knows for whom he suffers and hopes. He suffers and hopes and toils for people he will…

— Alejo Carpentier

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

— Anonymous

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

— Frank Herbert

A man who has nothing he is willing to die for has nothing worth living for

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Man ought always to have something that he prefers to life; otherwise life itself will seem to him tiresome and void.

— Johann Gottfried Seume

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