John Masefield Quotes

Well' Francie decided, 'I guess the thing that is giving me this headache is life - and nothing else but'.

Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

I've certainly experienced physical pain in my life.

When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.

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

Human life is too difficult for people.

My life is triage.

Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain.

Life is hard and it gets worse and worse and worse.

As long as one suffers one lives.

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

The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.

God has to remind us this isn't heaven by a long shot, so he increases the radios and lethal flies.

Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.

This long disease, my life.

The life of men is painful.

As long as one can suffer, one is living....live and suffer until life is gone.

Adventures suck when you're having them.

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

Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.

In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.

What destruction have I been blessed by?