quotes about life being hard

When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



You purchase pain with all that joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live. ~Alexander Pope



Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others. ~John Mason Brown



We're Americans - with a capital A! And do you know what that means? Do you? It means that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world. ~From the movie Stripes



The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone - until they do. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. ~Adlai E. Stevenson



God gave us all a penis and a brain, but only enough blood to run one at a time. ~Robin Williams



There is nothing wrong with today's teenager that twenty years won't cure. ~Author Unknown



Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved. ~Christopher Paul Rubero



Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind. ~John Lancaster Spalding



Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. ~Matsuo Basho Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. ~Elbert Hubbard



To have great poets there must be great audiences too. ~Walt Whitman



Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. ~Abraham Lincoln



Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us. ~Julia Penelope



When you use a manual push mower, you're "cutting" down on pollution and the only thing in danger of running out of gas is you! ~Grey Livingston



It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent. ~Machiavelli



Perhaps they are not the stars, but rather openings in Heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy. ~Author Unknown



Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell. ~Shana Alexander



I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night. ~Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes



If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor. ~Christiaan Barnard