Montesquieu Quotes

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.

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

Deem no man happy until he passes the edo fhis life without suffering grief.

Why should some people have such a hard time during their few years on this earth?

Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.

Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.

I'm not sure if men really understand this, but I don't think there's a woman in America who really expects her life to be easy. In our own ways, we all know better!

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.

A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.

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

My suggestion is that there's no way out of the human condition. Sex, death, marriage, children, parents, illness. There's no way out. They're a misery, all of them.

What is life about? Two things: love and death.

The only people who don't have problems are in a cemetery.

Our ingress into the world Was naked and bare; Our progress through the world Is trouble and care.

This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don’t you think so?

Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.

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

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it.

I have spent seven of the 12 years I have been married a victim of political persecution. I must be the first male spouse being held hostage by a regime. I accept this, as Pakistan has traditional elements who find it hard to reconcile with a man whose wife works and who other men salute perforce of her office.

Life is rough for a lot of people. Some people live in greater material circumstances than others, but life is rough for everybody.

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.