Difficulty Quotes

“When you want to share something with another person more than anything, it is one of the most difficult things to realize that you can never have it. Accepting this realization is even more difficult. Loving someone does mean saying goodbye to them in some cases, though we will fight that until the oftentimes bitter end before doing the right thing.”
― Ashly Lorenzana

“It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.”
― Ezra Pound

“The sweetest pleasure arises from difficulties overcome.”
― Publius Syrus, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus: A Roman Slave

“The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.”
― Alain de Botton

“When tough times come, it is particularly important to offset them with much gentle softness. Be a pillow.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“It's not as easy
as it is with chewing shame and foolishness
to chew the wreckage of broken time.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“Life’s mystery continued to trouble me
A question came to my mind,
is freedom dearer than life?
or does it become easier to live
when life becomes difficult?”
― Suman Pokhrel

“I warn you, the trip will not be easy. Once you choose to walk in the light, your path will lead you places you do not want to go.”
― Dave Wolverton, Star Wars: The Courtship of Princess Leia

“She was the living, breathing proof that the hard things in life didn't have to defeat you - or even define you.”
― Susan Wiggs, Summer by the Sea

“Mithorden: 'He was brilliant, yes, but ready to laugh at himself when he made mistakes. You may not believe it, but he made mistakes often.'

Luthiel: 'Why?' She choked around her tears.

Mithorden: 'Because he tried to do great things. Anyone can succeed at easy things. But the things Valkire tried were very difficult. He wanted to make things better for people of all races -- for he saw the good in them.”
― Robert Fanney

“...you can pretend that bad things will never happen. But life's a lot easier if you realize and admit that sometimes they do.”
― Lois Lowry, A Summer to Die

“The other two muleteers, addicted to opium, were invariably in a dazed state of mind. They had to smoke the drug every morning in order to rouse themselves sufficiently to tie up the packs. It was evident this morning that we would not be able to start marching before 8 a.m. whereas the stream of refugees invariably got under way at dawn. Captain Gribble”
― Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORIES OF SURVIVAL IN BURMA WW2: tens of thousands fled to India from the Japanese Invasion in 1942

“If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.”
― Louis D. Brandeis

“The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough or when things get too comfortable.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Olivia had changed so much since then. She had changed in ways she would never have been able to anticipate. She had become the kind of person who was barely able to get out of bed in the morning without buckling beneath the tidal pull of the planets.”
― Kevin Brockmeier, The View from the Seventh Layer

“You got to insist on your success, resist every obstacle and persist in times of difficulty and you will get there.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

“It was the helplessness that scared the both of us.”
― Lois Lowry, A Summer to Die

“The real difficulty about volcanism is not to see how it can start, but how it can stop.”
― Harold Jeffreys

“Changing a Habit is Never Difficult.
Difficult is to Address Your Unwillingness to do it”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“It is good to be alone, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult should be one more reason to do it.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Things difficult - almost to impossibility - can always be accomplished. Write that upon your tablets, for it is a valuable truth.”
― E.D.E.N. Southworth, Capitola's Peril

“Sometimes those who are easiest to love are hardest to respect. - Ashley Wilkes”
― Donald McCaig, Rhett Butler's People

“If the work weren't difficult I'd die of boredom.”
― William Gaddis

“Don't you agree that there must be something radically wrong with a civilisation, society, theory of life - call it what you like in which a hard-working, serious young woman like myself cannot obtain, without enormous difficulty, expense, or infliction of pain on others, a quiet, clean, pleasant room in which she can work, dream her dreams, write out her thoughts, and keep her few treasures in peace.”
― Catherine Carswell, The Camomile

“If you don’t have moments where it feels like a nightmare, then what your pursuing is not a dream.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I see life as a mission to which I have been called rather than an affliction that I must endure. And while the two frequently run parallel paths that seem to intersect at times, holding tight to the sense of ‘mission’ grants me the strength to endure the feelings of ‘affliction.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“From the moment of the infamous descent on the escalator
to a cheering throng of paid extras,
I knew it would be incredibly difficult
to ever be clear, be sure again
where and how we find home.

In this moment, do we even know?
Do we know how?

What is the way home?
Is there a way home?
Is there a way through all this chaos?”
― Shellen Lubin

“Never run away from difficulties, but never push yourself to difficulties beyond the limits of difficulty!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan