"…man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom."
Voltaire, Candide
"How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!"
Albert Camus
"A mass of dust, world’s momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade."
Barnabe Barne – English poet, 1569—1609