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Quotes About Difficulty

Writing is so difficult that writers having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment here after.
~ Jessamyn West
There exists no more difficult art than living. For other arts and sciences, numerous teachers are to be found everywhere. Even young people believe that they have acquired these in such a way, that they can teach them to others: throughout the whole of life, one must continue to learn to live and, what will amaze you even more, throughout life one must learn to die. SENECA
~ Erich Fromm
But, then, nothing is easy.
~ Ernest Hemingway
You lose them the same way your lose a battalion; by errors of judgment, orders that are impossible to fulfill, and through impossible conditions.
~ Ernest Hemingway
To worry was as bad as to be afraid. It simply made things more difficult. He
~ Ernest Hemingway
To worry was as bad as to be afraid. It simply made things more difficult.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Preoccuparsi è dannoso come aver paura; serve solo a far le cose più difficili.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The difficulty that accompanies you is less like the dark than a trusted lantern to see your way by.
~ Eudora Welty
Besides the emotional difficulty of literally defacing another human being, I become aware of the practical problem.
~ Andrew Mayne
We all have to face some kind of adversity.
~ Andrew Mayne
Good science requires having your ideas challenged, and that's often difficult for the people whose paychecks you sign.
~ Andrew Mayne
When things get bad, the trouble comes to the surface.
~ Andrew Mayne
I briefly contemplated how difficult it would be to safely remove my hand.
~ Andrew Rowe
That day, getting through my world was like trying to swim in a pool of warm mayonnaise while carrying two bowling balls.
~ Andrew Smith
Focus on making yourself feel excited, powerful. Imagine yourself destroying goals with ease." "You have to believe that you can achieve anything." "You can become rich, you can become strong, you can take care of your loved ones and enjoy the fact that it will be very difficult.
~ Andrew Tate
Poor fellow, he suffers from files.
~ Aneurin Bevan
Thank you very much, Miss Badger," she said. "I appreciate your honesty. I realise this may have put you in a difficult position here, but I trust you will not have any trouble." Marcia glared at Jillie Djinn. "However, if you do, there is always a place for you at the Wizard Tower.
~ Angie Sage
And Everything Matters The tasks that have been entrusted to us are often difficult. Almost everything that matters is difficult, and everything matters. Worpswede, July 16, 1903 Letters to a Young Poet
~ Anita Barrows
The charge frequently leveled against poetry - that it is difficult, obscure, hermetic and whatnot - indicates not the state of poetry but, frankly, the rung of the evolutionary ladder on which society is stuck.
~ Joseph Brodsky
When all else fails, complicate matters.
~ Aaron Allston
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.
~ George MacDonald
My French is terrible, and my Spanish is even worse. I find Spanish really difficult. They speak so quickly, whereas in German, it's very clear what they're saying. It's easier to repeat.
~ Eliot Sumner
Wherever I go, I'm followed by trouble.
~ Manisha Koirala