Blaise Pascal Quotes

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation..

We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.

I hate the domestic life.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.

The satisfaction derived from the fleeting things of life is not lasting; and our wants remain unfulfilled. There is thus a general sense of dissatisfaction accompanied by all kinds of worries.

You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going.

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

I believe people are afraid to be still because we're used to being stimulated.

Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

Nothing seems to me so likely to make people unhappy in themselves and at variance with others as the habit of killing time.

The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place.

I realised in 1985, after sitting for months and being very down, that I have to move. I have to be busy. Because, otherwise, it is like being in a waiting room. And waiting for what?

I hate not playing. That's the bottom line.

It’s really hard to do nothing totally. Even just sitting here, like this, our bodies are churning, our minds are chattering. There’s a whole commotion going on inside us.

It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do

Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.

Condition de l'homme: inconstance, ennui, inquie tude. Man's condition. Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety.

All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.

Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?

The human being is constantly torn from calm and peace of simple existence by two things; wanting what you don't have, or disliking what you have.