31 Quotes About Cost-of-living

In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.

The life of man is so short that ordinary people simply cannot afford to be born

Ah yes, the joys of free enterprise, which is never free of anything be it taxes, bills, or stress.

We have a calling: a need to be close to Nature, where she may cleanse our souls and wash away the stresses of yesterday. It is emotional recompense for the cost of living.

Irony is when people buy you gifts yet the cost is your happiness.

Everything costs something.

Every action that we take exacts a cost and produces consequences. Nothing can be undone.

You can't be a good writer in the States anymore... Because to be a good one you have to have a country where you can be poor and still eat, and still make your living standards secondary to your writing. Thoreau himself couldn't do that in the States today...(Sept. 1953 letter to Millen Brand)

These poor people have learned to endure day to day economic agony. It’s routine in daily life for them. They are so accustomed to facing economic pain that poverty doesn’t hurt them anymore. Extreme negativity in their life drove learning endurance and their accomplishment to endure extreme conditions is ‘positivity’ they mastered