Nicolas Chamfort Quotes

Today's world is very cruel.

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.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash.

There will always be people treated badly, which I feel is basic human nature and difficult to eliminate.

There is some suffering that awaits us all.

Man’s inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!

There is cruelty in the world Eliza, you can see that, can't you? It surrounds us. It breathes on us. We spend our life trying to escape it.

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

O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a most cruel and ruthless stepmother? I see thy children given into slavery to others without ever receiving any benefit, and in lieu of any reward for the services they have done for them they are repaid by the severest punishments.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.

Death is softer by far than tyranny.

The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.

There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age.

Life itself is offensive and certainly does not apologize - in fact, it hurts considerably and, as we all know, is often very rude and troublesome, just as nature or art can be.

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.

Never mind a world that can't see past brutality.

I had a very comfortable life, but there were people who spent their life in prison, whose families were destroyed.

Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

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