Montesquieu Quotes

There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.

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

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

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

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

Life is hard, but death is even harder.

What a terrible thing life can be.

Walking through this life really is walking through fire.

My suggestion is that there's no way out of the human condition. Sex, death, marriage, children, parents, illness. There's no way out. They're a misery, all of them.

There is some suffering that awaits us all.

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.

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

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.

The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.

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

The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.

There is no such thing in life as no pain and no disappointment.

I wondered why life had to suck so hard sometimes.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

All men have one entrance into life, and the like going out.

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