Gza Quotes

My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

Everybody has a tragedy or two in their lives.

Life is hard. Not great. Kind of tragic.

You see misery, you see misfortune, you see pain, you see suffering. It's all part of the fatalistic way of looking at life.

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

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

It's not been a pleasant life.

There will be days when you feel defeated, exhausted, and plain old beat-up by life's whiplash. People you love will disappoint you - and you will disappoint them. You'll probably struggle with some kind of mortal appetite. Some days it will feel as though the veil between Heaven and Earth is made of reinforced concrete.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

Sometimes, I can myself be frustrated by books that seem to me to be insufficiently realistic about the world's potential for just being totally a randomly bad place.

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

Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.

Reality continues to ruin my life.

I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss?

There's never any ebb in human misery.

Slipknot started out of tragedy.

It's tough to lose every day.

There was a time when I had nothing. I lost everything.

For Mum, life was fundamentally hell. You went blind, you got raped, people forgot your birthday, Nixon got elected, your husband fled with a blonde from Beckenham, and then you got old, you couldn't walk and you died.

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune

I wash my hands, wonder how an awful day could turn even worse. It seems like at some point you'd just run out of awful.

He looked as though his life had not only passed him by but paused along the way to spit in his face.