Sad Existence Quotes

My boy! Smoking is one of the greatest and cheapest enjoyments in life, and if you decide in advance not to smoke, i can only feel sorry for you.

Please, understand that your life is bad and dreary!

Well, birthdays are merely symbolic of how another year has gone by and how little we've grown. No matter how desperate we are that someday a better self will emerge, with each flicker of the candles on the cake, we know it's not to be, that for the rest of our sad, wretched pathetic lives, this is who we are to the bitter end. Inevitably, irrevocably; happy birthday? No such thing.

If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.

I live on a train. I know - what a sad thing to admit. I am the New-Age Willy Loman. But there it is.

The lives of most people are small tight pallid and sad, more to be mourned than their deaths. We starve at the banquet: We cannot see that there is a banquet because seeing the banquet requires that we see also ourselves sitting there starving-seeing ourselves clearly, even for a moment, is shattering. We are not dead but asleep, dreaming of ourselves.

Life is loneliness, broken only by the gods taunting us with friendship and the odd bonk

It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.

Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!

He thought how sad it was to be an Animal who had never had a bunch of violets picked for him.

No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.