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Famous Life Is Hell Quotes

My life is a battle. — Voltaire

My life is a struggle. - Voltaire

My life is a struggle. — Voltaire

Life is hard. After all, it kills you. - Katharine Hepburn

Life is hard. After all, it kills you. — Katharine Hepburn

Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line. — Carrie Fisher

Life Sucks,get a helmet — Denis Leary

Life ain't all beer and skittles. - Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Life ain't all beer and skittles. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Life is just one damned thing after another. - Elbert Hubbard

Life is just one damned thing after another. — Elbert Hubbard

Life is full of hardships, pimp slaps, and sorrow. - Coolio

Life is full of hardships, pimp slaps, and sorrow. — Coolio

Life is tough pilgrim, it is even tougher if you're stupid — John Wayne

Life at best is bittersweet. — Jack Kirby

Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid. - John Wayne

Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid. — John Wayne

Life is a zoo in a jungle. — Peter De Vries

Life is tough, and it's really tough when you're stupid. — Damon Runyon

Death gotta be easy cause life is hard — 50 Cent

Life is not a bowl full of cherries, there's good and bad stuff. — Fuzzy Zoeller

Short Life Is Hell Quotes

  • Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon. — Woody Allen
  • Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas. — H. L. Mencken
  • Life is an incurable disease. — Abraham Cowley
  • Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid. — John Wayne
  • Life sucks, but in a beautiful kind of way. — Axl Rose
  • Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid. — John Wayne
  • Life is a zero sum game. — George Carlin
  • The hardest thing in this world, is to live in it. — Joss Whedon
  • Life has become unbearable ... Forgive me. — Dalida
  • Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Life Is Hell Image Quotes

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love. - Fyodor Dostoevsky quote

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Life is hell quote For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're
For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and, if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

My Life Is Hell Quotes

Come hell or high water you will never take me back to the place I was before. I have been through too much to let life whoop me again. My faith is stronger than it's ever been, my mind is more tenacious than it's ever been, my soul is more absolute. — T. D. Jakes

Right, wrong, good, bad, heaven, hell. I think that is the theme of my life. I think you have to know both in order to honestly choose one. So I'm familiar with both sides of the fence. — DMX

Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without knowing what the hell is going on in the streets. Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory. The two have to go together. — Assata Shakur

My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias. - William Allen White

My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias. — William Allen White

My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell. — Emily Dickinson

Revenge is for the weak so I have settled my vendettas with all of the kids who made my early life a living hell. — Donald Glover

Life is hell quote Never be a prisoner of your past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence.
Never be a prisoner of your past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence.

Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are. — John Bradshaw

I am not an atheist; I believe in God. But my religion ends there. I have my own personal belief system that is so strong it allows me to do what I do. I dont have to worry about going to Hell because of Slayer, you know? Everyone has a personal belief system and believes in life somehow. — Tom Araya

If in this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true; this I have learnt after suffering all my life; all else is mere moonshine. — Swami Vivekananda

I was like, what the hell is my life coming to? I'm a trained actor! I've done Shakespeare and here I am having farting contests with an imaginary dog! — Matthew Lillard

Life Is Like Hell Quotes

Money is like manure. If you spread it around, it does a lot of good, but if you pile it up in one place, it stinks like hell. — Clint Murchison, Jr.

In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell. — Jack Welch

What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven. — Chuck Palahniuk

Life is hell quote There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your ow
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your own.

Real love is fighting like hell to hold on to every moment you have with her. It’s making a life together and making it work no matter what happens. — Peter Burke

The bottom line is that my life has already almost slipped away from me. I have two choices: I can end it or I can fight like hell to save it. — Martha Manning

Dr. Miller says we are pessimistic because life seems like a very bad, very screwed-up film. If you ask What the hell is wrong with the projector? and go up to the control room, you find it's empty. You are the projectionist, and you should have been up there all the time. — Colin Wilson

Life is hell quote Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.

My best advice for you, honey, is to stop if you possibly can! And if you just can’t, then get ready to work like hell. Hang onto your day job. And remember, you may not make a living, but you’ll make a wonderful life. — Doris Betts

My best friend Linda is leaving her husband just because he is unfaithful to her. That is no reason to leave the person. I feel like after that, you should stay with them and make sure that the rest of their life is sheer hell. — Roseanne Barr

I like to live my life so that my loved ones give me the things I need as gifts and I give them the things they need. Frankly a society built around consumerism is hell — Vandana Shiva

Life Is A Living Hell Quotes

Gide says the hell of this life is that between a hundred paths we have to choose only one, and live with nostalgia for the other ninety nine. — Fernando Sabino

Hell is when we look back during that fraction of a second and know that we wasted an opportunity to dignify the miracle of life. Paradise is being able to say at that moment: “I made some mistakes, but I wasn’t a coward. I lived my life and did what I had to do. — Paulo Coelho

My frustration has always been that I'm a Christian, but I don't buy into, never have bought into, the belief that Jesus and God are these men who just dictate that this is how you have to live your life or you are going to burn in hell. — Art Alexakis

Life is hell quote Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.
Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.

A creative life is an amplified life. It's a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life. Living in this manner-continually and stubbornly bringing forth the jewels that are hidden within you-is a fine art, in and of itself. — Elizabeth Gilbert

If I had my life to live over again, I'd live it the same way. Maybe a few changes here or there, but nothing special. The truth is, honey, I've enjoyed my life. I've had a hell of a good time. — Ava Gardner

Life Is Going To Hell Quotes

The lesson is, the rewards in life don't always go to the biggest, or the bravest, or the smartest. The rewards go to the dogged; and when your going though hell, to the person who just keeps going. — Bear Grylls

The Red Sox are a curious thing because so much here is media driven. You can't go fire half your scouts here because they are all friends with the local reporters. Your life is going to hell in the papers. — Michael Lewis

I know that my life is going to be hell from here on. — Susan Smith

Life is hell quote The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measur
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.

Individuals seem to have reached their walls and so has the entire human race. Whatever isn't working, isn't life-producing, isn't producing love for ourselves or others, is going to have to go now. Or, literally, there will be hell to pay. — Marianne Williamson

So, yeah, I mean, there is something universal about that feeling - that 20-something, what the hell am I going to do with my life, I'm lost and my parents are freaking me out, and what's the point? Every generation has a way of making that unique, but there are certain universals of that feeling. — Zach Braff

I write because it's all I know how to do. Writing is my anchor and my purpose. My life is informed by writing, whether the work is going well or I'm stuck in the hell of writer's block, which I'm happy to report only occurs about once a day. — Sue Grafton

Life is hell quote Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip top if you must, but take the step.

When you go home tonight, make a list of the people who are impediments, who don't believe in you, and call them up and tell them, 'Get the hell out of my life.' You don't need them. Writing is tough enough without having people around you who contribute to a writer's insecurity. — Ray Bradbury

I have no idea what the hell is going on in the world, in my life, in what anything means, or what I'm supposed to do. — John Maus

The American's conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell is the very essence of the free man's way of life. — Walter Lippmann

Just because your whole life is going to hell doesn't mean you have to walk there. — Jack L. Chalker

Life Is Miserable Quotes

Insanity is being shit on, beat down, coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and a key to release it. — Morgan Freeman

Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others...By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves. — Gordon B. Hinckley

The secret to happiness is to be working at your passion. If you want to be miserable, lead a desperate life like everybody else where they drag their asses to work everyday because they hate their job. — Yvon Chouinard

Life is hell quote Don't wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life.
Don't wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life.

Unless God's Word illumine the way, the whole life of men is wrapped in darkness and mist, so that they cannot but miserably stray. — John Calvin

What is going to make you happy? Because let’s be honest, you know, dating apps are not making you happy… Being anti-woke isn’t making you happy. It’s making you miserable. So what is actually going to give you fulfilment and meaning and purpose in your life? — Konstantin Kisin

If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death. — Immanuel Kant

Life is hell quote Don't compare your life to others. There's no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine wh
Don't compare your life to others. There's no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine when it's their time.

The fact that you are even here, alive, on this planet is a mathematical miracle, and you should not spend the time that you have being busy being miserable. — Philip DeFranco

The most wonderful thing in life is to do something for a child because they're children for such a short time. We can't allow ourselves to let them live a miserable childhood. — Juan Gabriel

The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved. — Cornelius Nepos

A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour. — P. G. Wodehouse

Hell On Earth Quotes

I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on this earth. — Al Capone

We don't know how to live together on Earth, how the hell are we going to live together on Mars? — Jacque Fresco

I'm not into religion, but I have a good grasp on my spirituality. I just believe that I'm not the greatest power on this earth. I didnt create myself, because I would have done a hell of a better job. — Layne Staley

Life is hell quote Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go
Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.

When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people? — Frank Borman

If we want to be known in heaven and feared in hell we must be willing to lose our reputation here on earth. — Loren Cunningham

For even in hell, I still have faith, To one day be free with my father at the gates, But make no mistakes, I'll show you what time takes, To be a success on earth, mixed with all the hate, I stand on my pivot, my life you could not live it For the things that I've seen have been too damn explicit. — Kid Cudi

Life is hell quote Failure are part of life. If you don't fail, you don't learn. If you don't learn you'll never change
Failure are part of life. If you don't fail, you don't learn. If you don't learn you'll never change.

The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell. — Karl Popper

The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering. — Tom Waits

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell. - Karl Popper

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell. — Karl Popper

Anything that God wants you to have, there's no devil in hell and no person on earth that can keep you from having it if you just won't quit and give up. — Joyce Meyer

Going Through Hell Quotes

If you're going through hell, keep going. - Winston Churchill

If you're going through hell, keep going. — Winston Churchill

When the end is near, we suddenly start thinking, What the hell am I doing? Why did I wait this long? Until then, most of us go through life as if we had all the time in the world. — Bill Perkins

If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something. — Drew Barrymore

People tend to look at dancers like we are these little jewels, little cardboard cut outs, and yet we have blood and guts and go through Hell. — Susan Jaffe

You're gonna have to go through hell, worse than any nightmare you've ever dreamed. But when it's over, I know you'll be the one standing. You know what you have to do. DO IT! — Tony Burton

Each generation imagines that we're all going to hell. Each generation goes through a little hell and comes out heat tempered and better than before. — Paul Harvey

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell. — Rihanna

Even if you have to go through hell - go without hesitation. — Albert Einstein

In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn...to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

When you are going through hell, keep on going. Never never never give up. — Winston Churchill

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More Life Is Hell Quotes

This life is the only hell believers will ever know. But for those who die in their sins, this is their only heaven. — Ray Comfort

Hell is not a place you go if you're not a Christian, it's the failure of your life's greatest ambition. — Immortal Technique

Men talk of heaven, - there is no heaven but here; Men talk of hell, - there is no hell but here; Men of hereafters talk and future lives, - O love, there is no other life - but here. — Sayings

In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair...the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw] the consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all... whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence. — Janis Joplin

When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family. — Jim Butcher

As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story. — John Green

Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill. — Ernest Hemingway

For Christians this present life is the closest they will come to Hell. For unbelievers, it is the closest they will come to Heaven. — Randy Alcorn

Most of life is hell. It’s filed with failure and loss. People disappoint you. Dreams don’t work out. Hearts get broken. Innocent journalists die. And the best moments of life, when everything comes together, are few and fleeting. But you’ll never get to the next great moment if you don’t keep going. So that’s what I do. I keep going. — Sigourney Weaver

Just live that life. It doesn't matter whether it is life or hell, life of the hungry ghost, life of the animal, it's okay; just live that life, see. And as a matter of fact no other way. Where you stand, where you are, that's what your life is right there, regardless of how painful it is or how enjoyable it is. That's what it is. — Taizan Maezumi

Love is heaven and fear is hell. Where you place your attention is where you live. — Alan Cohen

What you consistently speak with emotional intensity, you will experience, you will create, and you will become. The words that you speak with emotional conviction become the life you live - this is your heaven or this is your hell. — Tony Robbins

There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought --a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities! — Mark Twain

Weep if you must Parting is hell But life goes on So sing as well. — Joyce Grenfell

Music is my life. The things that people do don't seem interesting to me at all - going out to bars, carrying on, going to parties. What the hell do people do? Shop? Play golf? Have vacations? That doesn't seem interesting to me. To me, my job as a musician is to be a good receptor. A lot of music comes through me. — John Frusciante

Opportunity cost is a huge filter in life. If you've got two suitors who are really eager to have you and one is way the hell better than the other, you do not have to spend much time with the other. And that's the way we filter out buying opportunities. — Charlie Munger

What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or hell is in himself. — Catherine Crowe

Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth. — Alan Alda

Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. — Swami Vivekananda

To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober. — Eugene O'Neill

If you believe that there’s a heaven and hell . . . how much do you have to hate somebody to believe that everlasting life is possible and not tell them that? — Penn Jillette

Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun! — Alexander Blok

One of the horrors of hell is the undying memory of a misspent life. — Unknown

You can live in heaven right now. Heaven or hell is here and now; you don't need to wait to die. If you take responsibility for your own life, for your own actions, then your future is in your hands, and you can live in heaven while your body is alive. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Life is a blast when you know what you're doin', Best to know what you're doin' 'fore your life get ruined. Life is a thrill when your skill is developed, If you ain't got a skill or trade, then shut the hell up. — Del tha Funkee Homosapien

Because I have confidence in the power of truth and in the spirit, I believe in the future of mankind. Affirmation of the world and of life contains within itself an optimistic willing and hoping which can never be lost. It is, therefore, never afraid to face the dismal reality and to see it as it really is. — Albert Schweitzer

I don't think hell exists. I happen to believe in life after death but I don't think it's got a thing to do with reward and punishment. Religion is always in the control business and that's something which people don't really understand. — John Shelby Spong

Death is the great equalizer. I've seen that phenomenon many times. I've had people in my classes come to me, men and women over 50 years old, and they say, "I made it, I'm rich. But what the hell is my life for?" — Jacob Needleman

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