To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.
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How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.
Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be
beneficial.
[Lat., Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi read more
Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be
beneficial.
[Lat., Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim.]
We have suffered lightly, if we have suffered what we should weep
for.
[Lat., Levia perpessi sumus
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We have suffered lightly, if we have suffered what we should weep
for.
[Lat., Levia perpessi sumus
Si flenda patimur.]
Knowledge by suffering entereth,
And life is perfected by Death.
Knowledge by suffering entereth,
And life is perfected by Death.
Suicide is a permanent solution
to a temporary problem
(quoted by Judy Collins on Diane Rehm Show).
Suicide is a permanent solution
to a temporary problem
(quoted by Judy Collins on Diane Rehm Show).
See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one read more
See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.
