| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 80d8074 | she also liked to remember that there could be no such thing as an intentional imperfection. People are always mistaking something that looks good for something that feels good. | mistakes the-human-condition | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| a58deef | All this miraculous hatred. Christ, a man can't eat his breakfast for filling his belly full of it. | hatred people-are-no-damn-good sectarian-divide the-human-condition viciousness violence | Colum McCann | |
| 587585c | The world is perhaps ultimately to be defined as a place of suffering. Man is a suffering animal, subject to ceaseless anxiety and pain and fear. | iris-murdoch nihilism pessimism suffering the-black-prince the-human-condition the-world worldview | Iris Murdoch |