Napoleon Bonaparte 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.

I wish I had never been born--there or anywhere else.

What good is it to live a life that brings pains?

I don't believe in happy endings.

The worst thing in life is not to die but to live with bitterness.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

I never had a true childhood.

I have an enormous sense of having failed in life.

I think you always have regrets.

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

My old life - no amount of getting used to it would have made it right.

My life has been nothing but a failure.

There is only one thing I want. I would like to be seriously ill, and to hear nothing more about him for at least a week. Why doesn't something happen to me? Why do I have to go through all this? If only I had never set eyes on him!

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

I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied.

And I was desolate and sick of an old passion.

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

Regret is a short, evocative and achingly beautiful word: an elegy to lost possibilities even in its brief annunciation.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

All things do help the unhappy man to fall.

We are truly to be pitied.