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Quotes About Difficulty

Let them be fierce with you who have no experience of the difficulty with which error is discriminated from truth, and the way of life is found amid the illusions of the world.
~ John Henry Newman
Es que a veces me pongo tan triste –dijo la señora Reilly–. La vida no es fácil. Además he trabajado muy duro. Ya estoy harta.
~ John Kennedy Toole
Babbage was a brilliant mathematician but found human beings difficult to deal with. His intolerance of street musicians led to an organized campaign against him: his London home in Portland Place was bombarded by noise at all hours and abusive signs were hung in local shops.
~ John Lloyd
Women are emotional! And being an artist and a woman is probably more difficult because you have more stuff to overcome.
~ Chris Johnson
Quite often I play roles that require quite a degree of emotional exposure, and they can be very difficult to do.
~ Ian McLeod
There is no excellency without difficulty.
~ Ovid
Simple is hard. Easy is harder. Invisible is hardest.
~ Jean-Louis Gassee
The difficulty that contestation must be done in the name of an authority is resolved this: I contest in the name of contestation what experience itself is.
~ Georges Bataille
I am inclined to think from my own experience that the difficulty to eminence lies not in the road, but in the timidity of the traveler.
~ WASHINGTON ALLSTON
The ordinary affairs of a nation offer little difficulty to a person of any experience.
~ Thomas Jefferson
It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult - to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult).
~ Aristotle
Unfortunately, failure enjoys a natural advantage. Wrong answers to any problem outnumber right ones by a wide margin, and it seems that it will always be easier to break things than to fix them.
~ Sam Harris
Being ignored by the person you love is hard. But what hurts the most is how they make it look so easy.
~ Unknown
Life is as difficult to live as it it to understand...
~ Unknown
Nothing is more difficult and at the same time more precious than making decisions.
~ Unknown
Life is a game in which you can't choose easy or hard because its always hard .
~ Unknown
The hardest thing you need to learn in this world is how to live, for it is the only thing which is too difficult to be understood.
~ Unknown
When it rains tribulation, it pours mercy. When you are drowning in the seas of difficulty the life boat of ease comes to pull you out.
~ Unknown
About parenthood and BDSM) Note that a difficulty in shifting gears, or a struggle to find the time, is not the same thing as an ontological either/or.
~ Maggie Nelson
It is always taking care, but it is difficult, because at times to take care of her is also to cause her pain.
~ Maggie Nelson
We need ritual because it is an expression of the fact that we recognize the difficulty of creating a different and special kind of community. A community that doesn't have a ritual cannot exist. A corporate community is not a community. It's a conglomeration of individuals in the service of an insatiable soulless entity.
~ Malidoma Patrice Some
Non è la strada che è difficile, è la difficoltà che è la strada".
~ Unknown
Truth and life are very difficult to fathom, and I retained of them, without really having got to know them, an impression in which sadness was perhaps actually eclipsed by exhaustion.
~ Marcel Proust
It's far more difficult to disfigure a great work of art than to create one.
~ Marcel Proust