Hannah Arendt Quotes

The first and foremost reality is that suffering and death are not only enemies of life, but a means of reminding us of life's twin realities, love and hate.

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 need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.

The game of life is good, though all of life may be hurt, and though all lives lose the game in the end.

Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.

Pain redeems all. It is the awareness of life, a reminder of death.

For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in.

We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive joy through sufferings.

Acting is about communicating what it is like to be human: the pain, the laughs, the misery, the joy. I suppose I am searching to have it all.

Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.

I think life's an irrational obsession.

I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

I'm just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were some really disturbing aspects to being alive, like the fact that you weren't going to be alive forever - that bothered me.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

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

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

I am really curious about life, about why we are all here. I notice my skin is ageing, things are changing, I've seen people dying, so that's the train we are all on.

People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life.

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.

The human condition is endlessly fascinating to me, and the existential horrors of life are what drive our imaginations and theater in general.

She was tired of everyone wanting to go to heaven, nobody wanting to die. The only thing worth grieving over, she said, was that sometimes there was more beauty in this life than the world could bear.

Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.

pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence