Quotes / First-World Problems

Ross: What am I gonna do? This is like a complete nightmare!
Chandler: Oh, I know, this must be so hard. "Oh no, two women love me. They're both gorgeous and sexy! My wallet's too small for my fifties, and my diamond shoes are too tight!"

— Friends, "The One with the List"

Sue: It feels like I'll never accomplish anything. You just can't understand how hopeless my life is.
Nguyen-Nguyen: I remember birds in trees got quiet. I hear mother scream, then everything go white. Then everything black. Then everything flames. Then pop, pop, pop, pop. I look for father, but he's not there. Nobody there. Then think, "Why I still here?" Still think that everyday. [beat] But your salad tosser story is sad, too.

— Nguyen-Nyugen, on surviving her village's devastation during the Vietnam War, F is for Family

I'm trying to sympathize with you, Frank, but you gotta understand: You're a white man in a black bar; your basement is six floors above our ceiling!

— Rosie, F is for Family

Is this really all they had to worry about? Boys? Movies? Deciding which shirt goes with which skirt? It's bizarre.

—Ellie, The Last of Us

Tell me again about suburban life
And how you cut yourself with a kitchen knife
ISIS kills people just for being queer
But your mom is the real dictator here

—Youtube channel Become The Knight, Why pop-punk died

Eluna: I've lived in luxury since birth. It's all so mundane... And others work their whole lives to be rich? If only they knew it's nothing special... So depressing...
[Help button/key is pressed]
Vi: Complaining that she has everything... There's no way I'm gonna feel sorry for her.
Leif: Her problems are... not relatable, yeah.
Kabbu: We will probably never understand how she feels, but... Does that truly mean we can't try to empathize?

—Bug Fables

"I should be feeling so good these days. The earth is saved, it's Era 3, but I'm swelling up over these third-era problems. What do I do? How do I move on from all the stuff I've been through? How do I live life if it always feels like I'm about to die?!"

—Steven, Steven Universe: Future, "Growing Pains"

I never had much growing up
We were scraping by
On our bakery pie
Only millions to live on
Can you imagine, only millions to live on?
When some people had billions!

— Jack Horner, "Jack Horner's Song" by Kevin Temmer

As I stood in my lonely bedroom at the hotel, trying to tie my white tie myself, it struck me for the first time that there must be whole squads of chappies in the world who had to get along without a man to look after them. I'd always thought of Jeeves as a kind of natural phenomenon; but, by Jove! of course, when you come to think of it, there must be quite a lot of fellows who have to press their own clothes themselves and haven't got anybody to bring them tea in the morning, and so on. It was rather a solemn thought, don't you know. I mean to say, ever since then I've been able to appreciate the frightful privations the poor have to stick.

— Bertie Wooster, “The Aunt and the Sluggard”, P. G. Wodehouse

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