Anne Frank Quotes

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

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

There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.

What a terrible thing life can be.

Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.

The life of men is painful.

All people—all lives—are either in a crisis, coming out of a crisis, or headed for a crisis.

All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.

I certainly wouldn't say that my life is a disaster, but there have been moments where I've felt like that.

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

No one is immune to the trials and tribulations of life.

Everyone goes through a hard time in their life.

No one can escape life's pain. That's life.

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

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.

How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real!

There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason.

For Mum, life was fundamentally hell. You went blind, you got raped, people forgot your birthday, Nixon got elected, your husband fled with a blonde from Beckenham, and then you got old, you couldn't walk and you died.

Death must be easy cuz life is hard

Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.

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

Every single person has a story that will break your heart. And if you're paying attention, many people... have a story that will bring you to your knees. Nobody rides for free.

When you become rich and famous and you get a lot of attention, very few people get to go through that cycle without having a hard time. Everybody in their lives has a hard period. I don't know anybody who's ever been alive who hasn't had like, heartbreak, despair, depression, death, drug or alcohol, or weight problems, or health problems.

Life has a way of kicking one along like a football, or so I've found. Fate had never dealt me personally a particularly easy time, but that was OK, that was normal. Most people, it seemed to me, took their turn to be football. Most survived. Some didn't.

I've had, what, two years? Probably five good years. Before that I had twenty years of uncertainty and suffering and ego destruction and poverty. All those things. That'll always outweigh the good times.