Who breathes must suffer, and who thinks must mourn;
And he alone is bless'd who ne'er was born.


Solomon on the Vanity of the World, book iii, line 240; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Matthew Prior Quotes

Who breathes must suffer, and who thinks must mourn; And he alone is bless'd who ne'er was born.

Who breathes must suffer, and who thinks must mourn; And he alone is bless'd who ne'er was born.

Who breathes must suffer, and who thinks must mourn; And he alone is bless'd who ne'er was born.

Who breathes must suffer, and who thinks must mourn; And he alone is bless'd who ne'er was born.