Montesquieu Quotes

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

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

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

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

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

As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative.

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

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

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.'

A fundamental and unfortunate part of being alive is to suffer loss and to suffer grief.

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

We were born to die; we were born to endure, on the way to death, sorrow-sorrow in manifold shapes.

I have a natural tendency to feel well about the world, I suppose, one way or another. But then there is the problem of pain. There are things like [Abraham] Lincoln's beloved little boy dying.

Life is hard, but death is even harder.

Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!.

Life is very hard, isn't it? It does kill you, after all.

Death is not the worst sorrow.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

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

I always have this image of a woman running across a desert carrying children, trying to find water and food, not knowing when they'll get that. And her feet are slashed up from the dry, hard earth... Even when I'm uncomfortable, sometimes in pain, or just cold... I think, 'Thank God for what I've got.'

Rather suffer than die is man's motto.