Montesquieu Quotes

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.

I don't want to finish my life not being alive. I think that is the saddest thing that can happen to a person. I want to keep living to the end.

With what shift and pains we come into the World we remember not; but 'tis commonly found no easy matter to get out of it.

I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life.

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Life is an incurable disease.

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.

My suggestion is that there's no way out of the human condition. Sex, death, marriage, children, parents, illness. There's no way out. They're a misery, all of them.

People assume that death hanging over my head would allow me to put things into perspective, but that's not how it works.

What you should worry about is how you suffer here on this planet. You do not worry about suffering after you make the exit.

While we walking, while we breathing, we dying... I be really feeling like, even though we live to die, some people be dying to live.

There is so much trouble in coming into the world, and so much more, as well as meanness, in going out of it, that it is hardly worth while to be here at all.

Life is hard, but death is even harder.

Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death.

I saw my own blood and I thought, how could I live in a world where this exists- where love can become death?

Life is an incurable condition: the only known treatment is to try to keep the patient comfortable.

The lot of man - to suffer and to die.

Life is very hard, isn't it? It does kill you, after all.

To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune, Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles, And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep No more; and by a sleep, to say we end The Heart-ache, and the thousand Natural shocks That Flesh is heir to? 'Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die to sleep, To sleep, perchance to Dream; Aye, there's the rub.

The truth of the matter is that all we have to do is live long enough and we will suffer.

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.