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quick note:
can one help me recall a quotable along the lines of:
' ... all life is bitter, miserable, short ...'
It really surprised me that i could not even pinpoint or recall one definite word or phrasing from such an everlasting quote (in my mind) but I have. Only other thing is that I believe the quote is attributed to one of the founding fathers, or someone of the ilk...
notables include John Locke, Thomas Paine, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire, Douglas Adams... names and personages from that era stated something along the lines of "life sucks... and then you die", but i can't figure which one of them said it.
Been trying and trying, but all of the aforementioned seem generally upbeat about their lives, so it's conundrum as to where I plucked this memory from, and who it serves.
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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi
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