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Quotes About Difficulty

Going back to something is harder than you think. I don't suppose I could have broken my mother's heart any more if I tried.
~ Mitch Albom
From your point of view as a reader, therefore, the most important words are those that give you trouble.
~ Mortimer J. Adler
They are thus faced with the task of achieving a superficial knowledge of the book at the same time that they are trying to understand it. That compounds the difficulty.
~ Mortimer J. Adler
God, or whoever fills in during his absence, has seen fit to make it easier to become a father than to pass one's driving test.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
All business opportunities stem from someone else's inability to resolve a simple and inevitable problem.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Nichts, was in diesem Leben die mühe lohnt, ist einfach, Daniel.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
It's been one nightmare after another, Christina thought. Pretty soon I won't be able to keep track of them all.
~ Caroline B. Cooney
Change was supposed to be good for the soul, and turmoil created patience, but sometimes accepting either wasn't easy.
~ Carolyn Brown
Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
~ Carson McCullers
My distaste and disapproval for a member of Martin's family made me feel like a bad Christian and a bad wife. I'd often thought being a Christian meant by definition being a bad one, since nothing is more difficult than Christianity, so I was more or less used to that feeling.
~ Charlaine Harris
It's really hard for me to sing and play bass. Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.
~ Kim Gordon
Writing beautiful melodies is not fashionable because it is very difficult to do.
~ Gian Carlo Menotti
You're in a mess, and in excess.
~ Billy Strayhorn
I think Cristiano and Lionel Messi are two of the best players in the history of the game. Are they better than Pele or Diego Maradona? They are at the top, but I think it is difficult in football to say who is first or second or third.
~ Raul
The majority of the world - including myself - we all have problems and difficulty in life, and life's messy. But there are great rewards in life, too.
~ Eric Close
If you can imagine what it's like to launch a business in the middle of a lawsuit - it's not an easy thing.
~ Joseph Abboud
I've written not milestones of cinema but millstones.
~ Denis Norden
I do understand that, having been a minister, there is difficulty putting stuff into legislation which is being negotiated. I quite understand.
~ Nicky Morgan
With what strife and pains we come into the world we know not, but 'tis commonly no easy matter to get out of it.
~ Thomas Browne
Humanity appears upon the scene, hand in hand with trouble
~ Thomas Hardy
And yet to every bad, there is a worse.
~ Thomas Hardy
Courage can be developed. But it cannot be nurtured in an environment that eliminates all risks, all difficulty, all dangers.
~ Thomas J. Stanley
But admiration and sadness, admiration and worry, is not that almost a definition of love? There are people with whom it is not easy to live, but whom it is impossible to leave.
~ Thomas Mann
Sorgenkind des Lebens
~ Thomas Mann