Ellen Hopkins Quotes

I used to think you had to live this miserable life and that that would make you funnier, but you don't. The misery will come. The misery will find you.

I am talking about misery and all of its implications.

Life is hard. Not great. Kind of tragic.

I know that my life is going to be hell from here on.

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

It's not been a pleasant life.

As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

I think quite often a fate worse than death is life, for lots of people.

Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.

In our lives, we have good things and bad things, happiness and pain.

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

Life is painful, nasty and short... in my case it has only been painful and nasty.

No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

We don't live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.

I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.

Happiness is overrated. There has to be conflict in life.

There's never any ebb in human misery.

It's very hard to be happy when you've lost.

A minute to smile and an hour to weep in, A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double; And that is life!