Lynn Nottage Quotes

I am talking about misery and all of its implications.

I've seen the hell these people go through.

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

There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain.

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

I have been to hell and back. I have seen the edge. I have seen the dark side of life.

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

Misery is the River of the World

Were a stranger to drop on a sudden into this world, I would show him, as a specimen of its ills, a hospital full of diseases, a prison crowded with malefactors and debtors, a field of battle strewed with carcasses, a fleet foundering in the ocean, a nation languishing under tyranny, famine, or pestilence. To turn the gay side of life to him, and give him a notion of its pleasures; whither should I conduct him? to a ball, to an opera, to court? He might justly think, that I was only showing him a diversity of distress and sorrow.

I know that my life is going to be hell from here on.

I cannot tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth.

It's not been a pleasant life.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity.

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.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.

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.

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

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

Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.

Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help.

Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.

Life is hard. Not great. Kind of tragic.

That's what 'Hell On Earth' was about: we felt that we were living in hell.