Ivan Turgenev Quotes

From all our observations we may collect with certainty, that misery is the lot of man, but cannot discover in what particular condition it will find most alleviations.

Nobody is impervious to misfortune.

He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age.

We are born to trouble; and we may depend upon it, whilst we live in this world, we shall have it, though with intermissions.

Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.

What, if as said, man is a bubble.

There is an eternal humanity that crosses through all people, and it's more interesting often when it's about struggle - not people with champagne glasses.

Despite all the achievements of civilisation, the human being is still one of the most vulnerable creatures on earth.

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Hemingway has expressed with genius the terrors of the modern man at the danger of losing control of his world

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

I know what it is like to feel vulnerable and fearful during a difficult time.

Loss is something that I think is ultimately the number one struggle for humans.

I am very, very painfully human.

I have been in lots of very intense life situations. I have been shot at, and I have been hungry, and I have been in solitude, and I have also briefly been behind bars. So in a way, I know the heart of men.

It may be that there was no reason or purpose, for mankind must always be finding reasons where there are none, and comfort in a purpose that hardly exists.

All life is a struggle in the dark.

What a terrible thing life can be.

All of us are vulnerable, and at times we all feel adrift. But somehow, we all muddle through.

We are all frail-embodied creatures, who at times suffer through injustice, abuse, illness, pain and misfortune.

It is the lot of man to suffer.

And worse I may be yet: the worst is not So long as we can say 'This is the worst.

For every mother who ever cursed God for her child dead in the road, for every father who ever cursed the man who sent him away from the factory with no job, for every child who was ever born to pain and asked why, this is the answer. Our lives are like these things I build. Sometimes they fall down for a reason, sometimes they fall down for no reason at all.