Dorothy Parker Quotes

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

I don't believe in happy endings.

I've never asked for a happy ending

In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

To watch King Lear is to approach the recognition that there is indeed no meaning in life, and that there are limits to human understanding.

Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.

The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books.

I don’t know. We’ll all be dead.

Although I think I'm relatively happy as a person, I think there's something unhappy at the root of all my writing. I'd say optimistic but unhappy. Nothing that's particularly original, other than that we're going to live and die, and terrible things happen.

I like dark, hopeless, beautiful tragedies.

Oh, isn't life a terrible thing, thank God?

The living will envy the dead.

The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once.

Humanity, you never had it from the beginning." That was my motto.

Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives I think it is almost a consolation

We all die at the end, but does that nullify everything? Would most people rather say, "I wish I hadn't been born?" Once you're born you'll have to die, now is that funny or sad?

It is best not to have been born at all: but, if born, as quickly as possible to return whence one came.

You don't even live once.

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

The World is not an idea as asserted by philosophers who have dedicated their entire lives to the exploration of ideas. First and foremost the world is passion. But passion is associated with sadness. Sadness does not only arise from death which makes us face the Eternity, but also from life which causes us to confront the Time.

It's kinda hard to be optimistic, When your homies lying dead on the pavement twisted.

People are born, they have a limited amount of time going around thinking life is dandy but then, inevitably, tragedy strikes and they realize life equals loss! The whole point of the game is to minimize the pain caused by that equation! Now some people do it by having kids, or making money, or taking up coin collecting, and others do it by getting wasted.

Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.