life's harsh realities Quotes

We can't have a show where we only show the good parts and when things turn ugly, as life often does, we stop pack up our stuff, apologize to the millions watching, and just go home.

I... allowed my memory to journey back to the days when I was a boy of ten, full of health and optimism, when my wonder at the great game of living had yet to give way to disillusionment at its shabbiness.

The truth is, what I learned this year is that life is hard...Good people die for no reason. Little kids get sick. The people that are supposed to love you end up leaving.

For every story you hear that's tragic, there's another that's equally tragic or more so. I think you come to look at it as part of life.

Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a man at some sudden turn of the path of life, it dashes off for the moment his mask of civilization and gives a glimpse of the stranger and stronger face below.

We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.

Though we face the facts of sex we are more reluctant than ever to face the fact of death or the crueler facts of life, either biological or social.

It is funny you know, you spend 12 years of your life learning about things and about life, but they never really tell you how hard life really is.

Anything designed to be inoffensive isn't worth your time -- life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death.