Seneca the Younger Quotes

I've often felt that life is a hard deal and it's unrelentingly tragic and an uphill fight.

What a terrible thing life can be.

Our ingress into the world Was naked and bare; Our progress through the world Is trouble and care.

My life has been like all the lives, long and hard and full of sadness and confusion and horror, a frightening, difficult dream punctuated by brief moments of joy. And as is the case with all people's lives, the moments of joy are never often enough and never long enough.

This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don’t you think so?

Nobody asked to be born. Life is hard, kinda.

Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.

To me, the human experience does involve a great deal of anguish. It's joyful, but it's bittersweet. I just think that's life.

Being a human means waking up in this world, where we all have to work and slog to put food on the table.

Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.

I'm sure we could all relate because we've all got life. Some people ain't got it

Were all conning ourselves, one way or another, just to get through life.

Funny, how just when you think life can’t possibly get any worse it suddenly does.

He did not understand all he had heard, but from his clandestine glimpse into the privacy of these two, with all the world that his short experience could conceive of at their feet, he had gathered that life for everybody was a struggle, sometimes magnificent from a distance, but always difficult and surprisingly simple and a little sad.

Life's pain. You just have to get over as much of it as you can. -Isabel Culpeper

A lot of life is just surviving what happens.

We can have our own choices in sex partners, but you cannot avoid birth and death. It's the content of all religion and art. We familiarize them and if we're more honest, we'd be far more relaxed about them.

The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.

A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.

Of course, there are days when you're not feeling your best and you still have to stand up there and it can be difficult. But those days pass and you move on.

Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.

Life is messy, Ren. It's not easy and it's definitely not for the timid. Everyone has a past.

All life stinks and you must embrace that with compassion.

The same as real life, there is no happily ever after.

Life is hard . . . but we cling to it all the same