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Originally Posted by BadNick
Probably not what you have in mind, Jet. But since I like Harriet, here's a shot:
"Yes Eliza, it's all misery, misery, misery! My life is bitter as wormwood; the very life is burning out of me. I'm a poor, miserable, forlorn drudge; I shall only drag you down with me, that's all. What's the use of our trying to do anything, trying to know anything, trying to be anything? What's the use of living? I wish I was dead!"
- Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Ch. 2
I also like Emily Dickenson but she probably didn't say that.
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Originally Posted by Ourcrazymodern?
Life might be bitter,
& surely not long enough,
beating its ending.
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Originally Posted by ring
Sylvia Plath?
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Thank you for the replies. I do not believe it to be any of the above, I still think it was some 18th century scholar / philospher who had some ties into the American Revolutionary period, but since they all seem pretty upbeat about life, I'm wondering if I just don't know of his name right now.
I was pretty sure it was either Paine, Voltaire or Locke, but I haven't found such a quotable from then yet that resembles this mantra of "life is gloomy, but we still have it".