Human Condition


The Stranger
Man's Search for Meaning
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Metamorphosis
Lord of the Flies
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1984
The Book Thief
Heart of Darkness
The Death of Ivan Ilych
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Siddhartha
East of Eden
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
Aldous Huxley
“ One third, more or less, of all the sorrow that the person I think I am must endure is unavoidable. It is the sorrow inherent in the human condition, the price we must pay for being sentient and self-conscious organisms, aspirants to liberation, but subject to the laws of nature and under orders to keep on marching, through irreversible time, through a world wholly indifferent to our well-being, toward decrepitude and the certainty of death. The remaining two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and ...more ”
― Aldous Huxley, Island

Herman Melville
“ To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain. ”
― Herman Melville, Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Story of Wall-street

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