Human condition Quote by Salman Rushdie

“The world of the grotesque is the darkness within us.”

— Haruki Murakami

“Why should we remain innocent of what lurks in the shadows? How can we live in the world if we don't understand how dark…

— Penny Matthews

“Why is it only now that I can see how many ordinary things are actually grotesque?”

— Sara Baume

“And so the liked of us Have learned: Dark cannot right Our cursed bodies.”

— Ronald Baytan

“I now know that deep within the human concept is something dark, selfish, and completely willing to do whatever is necessary to support the…

— Melissa West

“We have this distinctly human concept of good and bad. Nature doesn't have that. It just is. I'm not comfortable with that. I'm not…

— Joe Hutto

“If only we would wake from (these) states of oblivion with some certain sense that there was no mystery to life at all, that…

— Anne Rice

“for that which is a disgrace to human nature, throws something of a shade over all the human character, and each individual feels his…

— Thomas Paine

“Oh! if, when we oppress and grind our fellow-creatures, we bestowed but one thought on the dark evidences of human error, which, like dense…

— Charles Dickens

“Humanity was cruel, and if you were prepared to try to find a bottom to that cruelty, you had best be prepared for a…

— Mira Grant

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

— Simone Weil

“The question of humanity can be solved only by constant dread.”

— Hassan Blasim