Edvard Munch Quotes

It's not been a pleasant life.

There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain.

There's never any ebb in human misery.

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

Were a stranger to drop on a sudden into this world, I would show him, as a specimen of its ills, a hospital full of diseases, a prison crowded with malefactors and debtors, a field of battle strewed with carcasses, a fleet foundering in the ocean, a nation languishing under tyranny, famine, or pestilence. To turn the gay side of life to him, and give him a notion of its pleasures; whither should I conduct him? to a ball, to an opera, to court? He might justly think, that I was only showing him a diversity of distress and sorrow.

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

Want is misery.

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

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.

I've seen the hell these people go through.

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

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

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

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

Into each life some rain must fall.

I don't know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

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

My childhood was appalling.

There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find.

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.

Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.

The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.