{"quotes":[{"text":"Length of smile get reduced as people grow up!!!","author":"Akshay Dubey","tags":["human-condition","human-nature","humor"],"id":5527,"author_id":"Akshay+Dubey"},{"text":"The human heart is a dark forest.","author":"Tobias Wolff","tags":["desire","heart","human-condition"],"id":8471,"author_id":"Tobias+Wolff"},{"text":"Felicity is a continual progress of the desire, from one object to another; the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.","author":"Thomas Hobbes","tags":["affect","desire","felicity","happiness","human-condition","well-being"],"id":9901,"author_id":"Thomas+Hobbes"},{"text":"If two people stare at each other for more than a few seconds, it means they are about to either make love or fight. Something similar might be said about human societies. If two nearby societies are in contact for any length of time, they will either trade or fight. The first is non-zero-sum social integration, and the second ultimately brings it.","author":"Robert Wright","tags":["anthropology","human-condition","sociology"],"id":10912,"author_id":"Robert+Wright"},{"text":"People may make fun of me because I’m wearing something odd, but it’s still good to be alive.","author":"Sōseki Natsume","tags":["conventions","human-condition","living","society"],"id":14676,"author_id":"S%C5%8Dseki+Natsume"},{"text":"The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.","author":"Milan Kundera","tags":["human-condition","humanity","life","nature","nurture","philosophy","roots"],"id":16115,"author_id":"Milan+Kundera"},{"text":"Death and ruin is man's preferred ecosystem.","author":"Joe Hill","tags":["human-condition","human-nature"],"id":19236,"author_id":"Joe+Hill"},{"text":"For I, Sinuhe, am a human being. I have lived in everyone who existed before me and shall live in all who come after me. I shall live in human tears and laughter, in human sorrow and fear, in human goodness and wickedness, in justice and injustice, in weakness and strength. As a human being I shall live eternally in mankind. I desire no offerings at my tomb and no immortality for my name. This was written by Sinuhe, the Egyptian, who lived alone all the days of his life.","author":"Mika Waltari","tags":["final-words","human-condition","humankind","injustice","loneliness","loneliness-of-life","mankind","sinuhe"],"id":19597,"author_id":"Mika+Waltari"},{"text":"The whole process of life is a process of deterioration in which everything—and this is the most cruel law—continually gets worse.","author":"Thomas Bernhard","tags":["existence","human-condition","living"],"id":22114,"author_id":"Thomas+Bernhard"},{"text":"They say that wisdom comes from suffering. This is not true. Wisdom comes from having unconditional empathy for all mankind. Any man filled with empathy is capable of gaining valuable insights on the human condition through the suffering of others. You do not need to suffer to know suffering, but you need empathy first to identify and feel the suffering of others around you. If you do not feel love for all mankind, nor see everyone around you as a valuable human and an extension of yourself, then you will never feel real empathy.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["apathy","capable","empathy","experiences","human","human-condition","insights","knowing","knowledge","lessons","love","man","mankind","memory","reasoning","suffer","suffering","tolerance","understand","valuable","value","wisdom","wise","world"],"id":33709,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":167,"pages":17,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}