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"Birth is suffering;
Decay is suffering;
Death is suffering;
Sorrow, Lamentation, Pain, Grief and Despair are suffering;
not to get what one desires is suffering;
in short:
The Five Aggregates of Existence
are suffering."
- The Buddha
"That human life must be some kind of mistake
is sufficiently proved by the simple observation
that man is a compound of needs which are hard to satisfy;
- that their satisfaction achieves nothing
but a painless condition
in which he is only given over to boredom . . ."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"Many men do not know
what to do with themselves:
they reel from purpose to purpose,
spend half a day driving to a ball game,
scramble for seats, freeze while they watch,
scramble for their cars before the game is over to beat the worst rush,
and reach home late at night,
having spent another day off
to which they had looked forward to during the week."
- Walter Kaufman
"It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us;
once we are sober we cannot help seeing
that it is all a delusion,
a stupid delusion!"
- Leo Tolstoy
"Life swings like a pendulum
backward and forward
between pain and boredom."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"All of life is a struggle.
It's a struggle just to get out of bed in the morning.
You're fighting gravity all day long."
- Richard Rose
"Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game
and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards."
- Theodore Dreiser
". . . But the time came when I stopped growing;
I felt that I was not growing but drying up.
My muscles were growing weaker, my teeth were falling out,
and I saw not only that this law explained nothing to me . . . "
- Leo Tolstoy
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