"Description of man: dependence, longing for independence,..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal

“The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room.”

“How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!”

“The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.”

“Most humans live in the mindset that this moment is only important because it's getting them to the next one.”

“The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.”

“The Indian who was laid under a curse, that the wind should not blow on him, nor water flow to him, nor fire burn him, is a type of us all. The dearest events are summer-rain, and we the Para coats that shed every drop. Nothing is left us now but death. We look to that with a grim satisfaction, saying, there at least is reality that will not dodge us.”

“Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.”

“A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.”

“You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the colour goes out of my life.”