"That was something his parents did not understand very well; over the years, they had become convinced that this job would provide for Gregor for his entire life..." Metamorphosis and Other Stories

I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil. The Return of the King

The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries. Hercules Furens

Thus, because we are rapidly advancing along this non-sustainable course, the world's environmental problems will get resolved, in one way or another, within the lifetimes of the children and young adults alive today The only question is whether they will become resolved in pleasant ways of our own choice, or in unpleasant ways not of our choice, such as warfare, genocide, starvation, disease epidemics, and collapses of societies. While all of those grim phenomena have been endemic to humanity throughout our history, their frequency increases with environmental degradation, population pressure, and the resulting poverty and political instability. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed