Certain Quote by Samuel Johnson

“Something of the same strain and anguish seems to have entered the soul of ivilised man. He knows there is something better than himself…

— Bertrand Russell

Man may be doomed to loss, sorrow, and desolation, but if he tries his strength and will, however briefly, upon the indifferent vast hostility…

— Jim Perrin

The poet complains or points out the discontent that lies at the heart of man, the individual man, and how can that be redeemed?

— Derek Walcott

“[N]ature listens not to the plaints of man, it is callous to his sorrows. Hence man turns away from Nature, … He turns within,…

— Ludwig Feuerbach

“Many and various are the things to which a man may feel himself drawn, but one thing there is to which no man ever…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“A man who has suffered much and wandered much has pleasure out of his sorrows.”

— Homer

“It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being, in vain he…

— Charles William Eliot

“his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out of self-consciousness into passionate delight; it went on fluttering in…

— George Eliot

“In this sort of hair-trigger eternity I felt that everything was justified, supremely justified; I felt the wars inside me that had left behind…

— Henry Miller

“Lament calls us to examine the work of reconciliation between those who live under suffering with those who live in celebration. Lamentations”

— Soong-Chan Rah

“To him, man was a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex multiform creature that bore within itself strange legacies of thought…

— Oscar Wilde

“A prominent citizen in a small city State, such as Athens or Florence, could without difficulty feel himself important. The earth was the center…

— Bertrand Russell