Poor Living Conditions

Famous quotes containing the words poor, living and/or conditions:

“Making the best of things is ... a damn poor way of dealing with them.... My whole life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand [ellipses in source].”
—Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1968)

“In the umbra, the tunnel, when the mind went wombtomb, then it was real thought and real living, living thought.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)

“The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)