Life Criticism Quotes

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

A person who has spoiled his stomach will criticize his meal saying that the food is bad; the same thing happens with people who are not satisfied with their lives

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

There hasn't been anybody whose life has been picked apart and distorted as much as mine.

[On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary world, have considered it, indeed, as an important bit of social criticism. To me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life; it is just a piece of rhythmical grumbling.

If this world isn't good enough for us then an afterlife won't be enough.

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

Poetry is about as much a 'criticism of life' as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire.

The man who denounces life merely defines himself as the man who is unequal to it.