Yoko Taro Quotes

How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real!

You can't have a pain-free life. It can't all be roses and unicorns.

That's why I'm never happy. Every tragedy, I really feel very painful - especially about a child or old people. This is reality. We try to close eyes and ears, but it's happening every second, and somehow, unfortunately, I feel a connection.

We are all frail-embodied creatures, who at times suffer through injustice, abuse, illness, pain and misfortune.

I decided that it might be interesting to have terrible things happen to orphans over and over again.

Nobody is impervious to misfortune.

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars.

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

No one is immune to the trials and tribulations of life.

Life is difficult for everyone; everyone has bad days. Everyone has trouble in their life, because it doesn't matter how rich you are: Sickness and trouble and worry and love, these things will mess with you at every level of life.

Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.

Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.

The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.

Everybody has a tragedy or two in their lives.

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

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

At the root of everything I write is tragedy.

It is definitely true that adversity and hardship are not evenly distributed.

There's never any ebb in human misery.

Slipknot started out of tragedy.

A lot of people have it tougher than I do.

Tragedy isn't getting something, or failing to get it; it's losing something you already have.

A man is the sum of his misfortunes.

The man who has not suffered - what does he know anyway?