3 Samuel Johnson Quotes on Human condition

Samuel Johnson quotes on human condition

40. Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?

48. Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, of sickness, or captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable; nor does it appear that the happiest lot of terrestrial existence can set us above the want of this general blessing; or that life, when the gifts of nature and of fortune are accumulated upon it, would not still be wretched, were it not elevated and delighted by the expectation of some new possession, of some enjoyment yet behind, by which the wish shall at last be satisfied, and the heart filled up to its utmost extent.

100. It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.