"The sole cause of all human misery..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal
The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.
More by Blaise Pascal
“Too much pleasure disagrees with us. Too many concords are annoying in music; too many benefits irritate us; we wish to have the wherewithal to overpay our debts.”
“We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.”
“Who can doubt that we exist only to love? Disguise it, in fact, as we will, we love without intermission... We live not a moment exempt from its influence.”
More on Misery
“Habit is the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. Full half the time of such a man goes to the deciding, or regretting, of matters which ought to be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his consciousness at all.”
“The progress of the world means more enjoyment and more misery too.”
“While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.”
More on Solitude
“The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. Only after death, only in solitude, does a man’s true nature emerge. In death, as on the chimney sweep’s Saturday night, the soot gets washed from his body.”
“but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.”
“When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.”