Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
“Though life seems painful, at the same time it is wonderful”
空色(Sorairo), Siki
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生きるのは苦しいの 同じくらい素敵なの
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Ritsuko Okazaki 11
Japanese singer 1959–2004Related quotes

“Oh pain! Oh pain! Time eats life.”
Ô douleur! ô douleur! Le Temps mange la vie.
"L’Ennemi" [The Enemy] http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Fleurs_du_mal/1857/L%E2%80%99Ennemi
Variant translations:
Oh pain! Oh pain! Time eats our lives.
Oh pain! Oh pain! Time is eating away my life.
Les fleurs du mal (Flowers of Evil) (1857)

“I wonder if it's possible to be a Republican and a Christian at the same time.”
C-SPAN broadcast (21 June 2004)
Senate years (2001 – January 19, 2007)

“The great object of life is sensation- to feel that we exist, even though in pain.”

Translation of Laozi's Tao Te Ching.
The Way of Life, According to Laotzu, 1944.

“We cannot ignore our pain and feel compassion for it at the same time.”
Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

“Seems like yesterday; seems like forever—all at the same time.”
Response to question on what it feels like to have been the ABC News Anchorman for 20 years.
Larry King Interview (8 September 2003)
Context: Seems like yesterday; seems like forever—all at the same time. It's sort of, how do you measure it? Do you measure the fact that I'm 20 years older? No. I think I measure it by the events. You know, I came just as the Cold War was coming to an end. When you think about the events that we've been through, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to, I guess you'd say, 9/11 being the culmination at the end of that — of that scope — what extraordinary changes there have been.