Hell is not so bad as the road that leads to it.
More Yiddish Proverbs:
Other people's troubles are bearable.
Yiddish
Stubbornness is the greatest ill.
Yiddish
A person should stay alive, if only out of curiosity.
Yiddish
What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.
Yiddish
Borrow causes sorrow.
Yiddish