Aeschylus Quotes

My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

I don't know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

Maybe it would have been better if neither of us had been born.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation..

For 30 years, I lived in pure hell.

Long life is a burden, when it's spent in misery.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

Want is misery.

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

I think quite often a fate worse than death is life, for lots of people.

My childhood was appalling.

I know so many people who are eaten up by regret. It manifests itself in so many ways. They either become mentally a bit off, or they get very fat, or they are just horribly depressed.

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

Some people just aren't meant to be happy.

Human life is too difficult for people.

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

Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.

I am talking about misery and all of its implications.

Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance.

A splendid misery.

My father did not rock. He just earned and hated. Don't end up like this man.

We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP.

I read 'The Bell Jar' as an adolescent and, like most teenagers, had no problem identifying with a young woman who had everything going for her - looks, talent, opportunity, with her 'whole life ahead of her,' yadda, yadda, yadda - yet was spiraling into misery.