Hard Life Quotes

“It's a hard life if you don't weaken.”
― Stephen King

“What an ugly, loveless life for a girl.”
― Sophocles, Electra

“The harder life is for a man when he is young, the easier it will be in the future.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle

“The world won’t show you mercy when you need it most.”
― Logan Egle, The Emotional Embodiment of Stars

“Hunter's stew is also known as hunter's pot or perpetual stew.
It is made in a large pot, and the ingredients are anything you can find. The idea is that it is never finished, never emptied all the way- instead it is topped up perpetually. It is a stew with an unending cycle. It is a stew that can last for years.
It dates back to medieval Poland, first made in cauldrons no one bothered to empty or wash. It began with the simmering of game meat- pigeon, hare, hen, pheasant, rabbit- just anything you could get your hands on. It would then be supplemented with foraged vegetables, seasoned with wild herbs. Sometimes spices or even wine would be added. Then, as time went by, additional food scraps and leftovers were thrown in- recently harvested produce, stale hunks of bread, newly slaughtered meat, or beans dried for the winter months. It would exist in perpetuity, always the same, always new.
Traditionally the stew has spicy, savory, and sour notes. An element of sourness is absolutely necessary to cut through the rich and intense flavor. It is said to improve with age.”
― Lara Williams, Supper Club

“This striving to help save the world a little bit, to push it just a bit farther into the right—this action was the only thing that sustained her during the hard times [when] only her purposeful life propped her up from total collapse, and she thought how strange that she had taught the morality play Everyman all those years but didn’t fully understand its central lesson or how true it was: We are our good deeds, and they alone will come with us into the afterlife.”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

“Одним людям живется легко, а другим — чрезвычайно трудно. Эта очевидная несправедливость — еще большая, чем расовая дискриминация...”
― Yukio Mishima, Thirst for Love

“Papi learned to swim in water that wanted to kill him.
That ocean can't be so different; shouldn't be any different.
If any man could take a hard dive & come up breathing,

it should be one who had practiced for just that his entire life.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

“К жизни нужно относиться легко. В конце концов, людям, которым живется легко, не приходится искать оправдания; однако те, кому жизнь в тягость, очень часто вынуждены искать оправдания такому положению вещей. (Эцуко)”
― Yukio Mishima, Thirst for Love

“As Melvin Thompson screamed, he saw his life flash before his eyes. He was disappointed it was not a good life. Nothing good ever seemed to happen to him.”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“we fought a lot in welch. Not just to fend off our enemies but to fit in. Maybe it was because there was so little to do in Welch; Maybe it was because life there was hard and it made the people hard...maybe it was because mining was dangerous and cramped and dirty work and it put all the miners in bad moods and they came home and took it out on their wives, who took it out on their kids, who took it out on other kids.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

“Sometimes guys, they make things hard for us just because they can.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“The best worship is to ease one’s hard life in any way possible; no holy books, no rules, no temples, none is necessary!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“But that’s only because we have to be that way in order to get on with our lives. Just because people are playing doesn’t mean their hearts aren’t in it.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, The Lake

“Human beings push against each other and trample on each other; some sink exhausted to the ground and serve as a bridge for others, some perish—they are the ones least fitted for coping with the push, and they perish. That can't be helped. But the others flourish and blossom. Such is life's immortality. All this, mind you, they knew at the pump.”
― Knut Hamsun, The Women at the Pump

“And I am very uncomfortable in these clothes. I think too that I am a little frightened. There is not even M. Davenant left. I shall be forced to eat pudding, and that woman will kiss me.’ She heaved a large sigh. ‘Life is very hard,’ she remarked sadly.”
― Georgette Heyer, These Old Shades

“It doesn't' matter how hard your life is, was, or will be just don't give up”
― Dido Stargaze

“The purple violets and marigolds
Shall as a carpet hang upon thy grave
While summer days doth last. Ay me, poor maid,
Born in a tempest when my mother died,
This world to me is as a lasting storm”
― William Shakespeare, Pericles

“Roller coasters are built to be exhilarating, so the tracks take you up, and the tracks take you down.
Life is built the same way.
Ride on, my friend.”
― Cheryl R Cowtan

“Men dersom Nordfarernes Troe var saa stoer,
De kunde faa Bergen henfløttet i Noer,
Ved ongefahr hundrede Miile;
Hvor skulle den ganske Nordlendingens Tract,
Af inderste Hierte sig fryde med Magt,
Med lystige Ansigter smiile.”
― Petter Dass, The Trumpet of Nordland

“Struggle to achieve your dreams! Live a hard and an honest Life. Never give up the struggle.”
― Avijeet Das

“Whenever his mother was not lying on her back or down on her knees working, she would spend her money getting high.”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“The biggest weapon of billions of people against the difficulties of life is 'the desperation solutions' that sadden humanity instead of 'real solutions' that suit human dignity!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The path that leads to triumph is long, tedious, and crooked.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“I used to think the garden of Eden story was all about Eve breaking the rules and eating the forbidden fruit. Church lessons taught us that her selfishness and deception resulted in great suffering for every generation to follow.
That's the guilt we have been taught to carry as women. The serpent tricks us, and it's all our fault. Others are harmed by our naive choice, and it's all our fault. Our children stray from the right path, and it's all our fault.
Truth is, the dangers were here from the start. But so was the beauty.
Now I realize the story is not about punishing all of humankind for Eve's mistake. It's about relationship. It's about gratitude and honesty and choosing the right person to be by your side in life. It's about trust and partnership and loyalty. It's about love.
Now, as the garden comes to life around me, I no longer think of serpents and betrayals and lies and shame. Instead, I see what God sees. I see that it is good. All of it. Good.”
― Julie Cantrell, Perennials

“Right by the edge of the fractured pavement next to the uneven road circling the square sat a fifteen-year-old boy with a hard helmet. There's something wrong with a boy that age waiting to go to work. Sitting in a yoga pose, he had a piece of bread and some feta cheese in front of him next to a broken barrel filled with tar and wood. It was lit up, which would only mean it was there to keep him warm during the night.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish

“Cheating seems like such a hard life when you can be loyal and faithful and live out your life in happiness!”
― Steven Magee

“What should those who think they have a difficult life and constantly complain about their lives think when they see those who actually have a very difficult life? I think they should just be ashamed!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“is it harder to have a difficult life but enjoy peace of mind, or the opposite?”
― Hagir Elsheikh, Through Tragedy and Triumph: A Life Well Traveled

“You grow, not because you do, but because you have to.”
― Dominic Riccitello