Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose. Man's Search For Meaning

"Gregor converted his success at work straight into cash that he could lay on the table at home for the benefit of his astonished and delighted family." Metamorphosis and Other Stories

To judge the appearances we receive of things, we should need a judicatory instrument; to verify this instrument, we should need a demonstration; to rectify this demonstration, we should need an instrument: so here we are arguing in a circle. Seeing the senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason; there is no reason but must be built upon another reason, so here we are retreating backwards to all eternity. Essays

One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. Dubliners