English term
Canada
The right word matters: EN>FR Translator
Native in: French (Variants: Canadian, Standard-France) 
Works in: English to French, French, English
Love sucks, then you die.
| Life's a bitch, and then you die |
Victoria Britten
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Jan 29, 2021 01:47: Yvonne Gallagher changed "Language pair" from "English" to "English to French"
Proposed translations
France
French & Haitian Creole Professional
Native in: French (Variant: Standard-France) , Haitian-Creole (Variant: Standard-Haiti)
Works in: English to French, English to Haitian-Creole, Spanish to French, and 2 more.
On aime, on souffre, et puis on meurt.
Adding "we suffer" after "we love" makes this phrase more natural without loosing its meaning.
Translation: "We love, we suffer, and then we die."
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Victoria Britten
: i like this: it retains both the conciseness and the pathos of the English
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Laurent Di Raimondo
: Pourquoi ne pas avoir supprimé le "puis" ? Ce rythme aurait donné un caractère plus fataliste : "On aime, on souffre, on meurt". Mais je ne suis pas un spécialiste en la matière.
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Antoine Wicquart
: J'aime beaucoup la version de Laurent ci-dessus : "On aime, on souffre, on meurt". Un ton laconique qui me semble tout à fait adéquat au regard du texte source.
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ormiston
: J'enlèverais aussi le 'et puis' (plus percutant). And actually, it is not an English vidiom...
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Serious and meeting of deadlines guarant
Native in: French
Works in: English to French, Spanish to French
Rien ne sert d'aimer, puisqu'on meurt tous.
France
Always keeping in mind the audience
Native in: French (Variants: Standard-France, Swiss, Canadian, Belgian, Luxembourgish)
Works in: English to French, Spanish to French
L'amour ça craint, on finit tous par mourir
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Alexandre Tissot
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Claude-André Assian
: bien vu
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Victoria Britten
: Not so sure: there's a logical link between life and death that there isn't between love and death. It's also not quite as brutal as the original.
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France
Experience, skills and quality for you!
Native in: Arabic 
, French (Variant: Standard-France)
Works in: English to French, Arabic to French, French to Arabic
Il n'y a pas d'amour dont on ne soit flétri
"Il n'y a pas d'amour qui ne soit à douleur
Il n'y a pas d'amour dont on ne soit meurtri
Il n'y a pas d'amour dont on ne soit flétri
Et pas plus que de toi l'amour de la patrie
Il n'y a pas d'amour qui ne vive de pleurs
Il n'y a pas d'amour heureux..."
Ireland
Tourism, food industry, pharmaceutical
Native in: French
Works in: English to French, French to English, Spanish to French
Reference comments
France
Tracking the right turn of phrase
Native in: English (Variant: British)
Works in: French to English, English, French
Discussion
But that reminds me the original title of a novel already wrotten by Michael Grant, a British novelist, whose title is exactly the same : "Love sucks, then you die".
Here is the commercial link on Amazon website : https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B00EMT2FI0/ref=dbs_a_def_rw...
AFAIK, this novel has not been translated in French yet, maybe except by you soon, Dear Natacha... ;-)
Sorry, first time posting on the forum. I think it has been changed. Thank you