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“In the condition of men, it frequently happens that grief and anxiety lie hid under the golden robes of prosperity; and the gloom of calamity is cheered by secret radiations of hope and comfort; as in the works of nature, the bog is sometimes covered with flowers, and the mine concealed in the barren crags.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay

“No man's condition is so base as his; None more accurs'd than he; for man esteems Him hateful, 'cause he seems not what he is; God hates him, 'cause he is not what he seems; What grief is absent, or what mischief can Be added to the hate of God and man?”

Men Seems Hate Causes Grief Conditions Esteem Hypocrisy Absent Hateful Mischief Hate Him

Author:Francis Quarles

“Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.”

Ifs Men Enough Character Pain Humanity Evil Literature Common Grief Virtue Conditions Subjects Honesty Integrity Sorrow Treatment Calamity Aggravation Pain And Sorrow Aggravating

Book:The Spectator, no. 1-314

Source: The Spectator, no. 1-314

“under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being.”

Men Should Humans Persons Human Beings Grief Conditions Planets Walking Anxiety Sane Primitive Brutal Wounded Deranged

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings.”

Feelings Grief Conditions Distance Disaster Shock Merciful

Book:The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy

Source: The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy

“But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loopholes, as it were, in that ordinary life through which there came glimpses of something sublime. And in the contemplation of this sublime something the soul was exalted to inconceivable heights of which it had before had no conception, while reason lagged behind, unable to keep up with it.”

Soul Reason Joy Grief Behinds Conditions Ordinary Height Contemplation Conception Sublime Glimpse Exalted Ordinary Life Loopholes

Book:ANNA KARENINA

Source: ANNA KARENINA

“I've grieved enough for his life cut short and for mine for running on for so long with so little in it. It's weakness now, but I suppose I am crying out of a general sense of loss. Maybe I am mourning for the human condition.”

Humans Littles Long Enough Running Loss Grief Cutting Conditions Cry Mines Weakness Mourning Human Condition

Book:Iris and Ruby: A Novel

Source: Iris and Ruby: A Novel

“What is it that strikes a spark of humor from a man? It is the effort to throw off, to fight back the burden of grief that is laid on each one of us. In youth we don't feel it, but as we grow to manhood we find the burden on our shoulders. Humor? It is nature's effort to harmonize conditions. The further the pendulum swings out over woe the further it is bound to swing back over mirth.”

Men Feels Humor Fighting Grows Effort Grief Conditions Youth Bounds Burden Strikes Shoulders Sparks Swings Manhood Woe Mirth Pendulums

Book:Mainly the truth: interviews with Mark Twain

Source: Mainly the truth: interviews with Mark Twain

“It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of the most studious life a great part passes without study. An author partakes of the common condition of humanity; he is born and married like another man; he has hopes and fears, expectations and disappointments, griefs and joys, and friends and enemies, like a courtier or a statesman; nor can I conceive why his affairs shuld not excite curiosity as much as the whisper of a drawing-room, or the factions of a camp.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius

“In the dog two conditions were found to produce pathological disturbances by functional interference, namely, an unusually acute clashing of the excitatory and inhibitory processes, and the influence of strong and extraordinary stimuli. In man precisely similar conditions constitute the usual causes of nervous and psychic disturbances. Different conditions productive of extreme excitation, such as intense grief or bitter insults, often lead, when the natural reactions are inhibited by the necessary restraint, to profound and prolonged loss of balance in nervous and psychic activity.”

“If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.”

Ifs Grief Conditions Universal Transactions

Book:The Long Goodbye: A Memoir

Source: The Long Goodbye: A Memoir