Mandy Patinkin Quotes

The real world is horrible.

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Life is cruel and unfair, my friends, and that is fact.

I've seen the hell these people go through.

There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn't bring this upon themselves. They are the victims of the sins of other people. And while it's hard to see, it's important to understand that these people exist.

Sometimes, I can myself be frustrated by books that seem to me to be insufficiently realistic about the world's potential for just being totally a randomly bad place.

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.

I'll tell you one thing, it's a cruel, cruel world.

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.

One man’s exile is but a drop in the sea of human misery

There's never any ebb in human misery.

Non-fictionalised accounts of horrific accidents, bereavement, and the outrages of officialdom tend to move us deeply.

The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?

We as people often subscribe to hope to feel better about our lives, to escape the harsh and sometimes cruel injustices of the world.

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.

I sleep in peace, even if only in the company of lice, behind bars. The same could not be said of my incarcerators though they sleep in warm beds, next to their wives, in their homes.

There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find.

The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.

Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?

Life is painful, nasty and short... in my case it has only been painful and nasty.

Most comedy comes out of misery.

I am talking about misery and all of its implications.

While we yearn for peace, we live in a world burdened with hunger, pain, anguish, loneliness, sickness, and sorrow.

Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.