Life's Hardship Quotes

Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.

Life is, of course, terrible.

We can only begin to live when we conceive life as Tragedy.

With the intellect I always have always shall overcome, but that is not the half of the work. The life, the life Oh my God! shall the life never be sweet!

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

To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.

Tis not that dieing hurts us so- tis living- hurts us more.

To endure life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living being Illusion can have no value if it makes this more difficult for us.

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends, And how, how rare and strange it is, to find In a life composed so much, so much of odds and ends, (For indeed I do not love it ... you knew? you are not blind! How keen you are!) To find a friend who has these qualities, Who has, and gives Those qualities upon which friendship lives. How much it means that I say this to you- Without these friendships-life, what cauchemar!

Life is just like a book. Only after you've read it do you know how it ends. It is when we are at the end of life that we know how our life ran. Mine, until now, has been black. As black as my skin. Black as the garbage dump where I live.