Bob Black Quotes

If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.

Labour is the purgatory of the erring.

I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.

Our epoch has been called the century of work. It is in fact the century of pain, misery and corruption.

Work is a dull thing; you cannot get away from that. The only agreeable existence is one of idleness, and that is not, unfortunately, always compatible with continuing to exist at all.

Work is not the curse, but drudgery is.

Every day, it was the same: school, homework, farm work, training. Getting hurt or dying might've been better than the life I was living.

Jobs are a part of life. Maybe you've heard of the concept. It's called work? See, what happens is that you suffer through doing annoying and humiliating things until you get paid not enough money. Like those Japanese game shows, only without all the glory.

Work ... is redemption.

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

Want is misery.

It's not been a pleasant life.

Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure.

I used to think you had to live this miserable life and that that would make you funnier, but you don't. The misery will come. The misery will find you.

More than we sleep, play, or make love, we work. Yet despite - or perhaps because of - this dominant daily grind, much of our literature is biased toward other pursuits.

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

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

Work is an activity that is financially-driven or one that you'd like to do less of.

Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.

What good is it to live a life that brings pains?

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

My childhood was appalling.

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

The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question.

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.