Life is suffering quotes

[Deleted member 23885]

Here's the first one:
Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
George Orwell

Can the rest of you reply with more related quotes.

 

[hoping to lose hope]

"If the immediate and direct purpose of our life is not suffering then our existence is the most ill-adapted to its purpose in the world."
― Arthur Schopenhauer,

 

[Life sucks]

"Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved." ~ Mark Twain

 

[Sprite_Geist]

"You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you. He never wanted you. In all probability, he hates you. This is not the worst thing that can happen."
- Tyler Durden, Fight Club.

 

[Wraith]

"To live is to suffer; to survive is to find meaning in the suffering." - Friedrich Nietzsche

 

[esse_est_percipi]

What makes us heroic? Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.

-- Nietzsche