Quotes About Difficulty

It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.

Because love is confusing and strange and difficult and uncomfortable and unbelievable inconvenient. But above all, love is transcendent.

Perhaps she had learned already those lessons in life that make smiling difficult.

All things are hard, it said. There is nothing easy.

Sed omnia praeclara tam difficilia quam rara sunt" (but everything great is just as difficult to realize as it is rare to find) reads the last sentence of the Ethics of Spinoza.

Sed omnia praeclara tam difficilia quam rara sunt (but everything great is just as difficult to realize as it is rare to find) reads the last sentence of the Ethics of Spinoza.

everything great is just as difficult to realize as it is rare to find)

Sed omnia praeclara tam difficilia quam rara sunt

To attempt a methodical presentation of the subject is very difficult, as psychology requires a certain scientific detachment. But does a man who makes his observations while he himself is a prisoner possess the necessary detachment? Such detachment is granted to the outsider, but he is too far removed to make any statements of real value.

To decent Avernus is easy; the gate of Pluto stands open night and day; but to retrace ones's steps and return to the upper air, that is the toil, that is the difficulty.

Quid Syrtes aut Scylla mihi, quid vasta Charybdis profuit?

Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness; second, that there are twenty-five elderly gentlemen living in the neighbourhood of London who resent any slight upon her genius as if it were an insult to the chastity of their aunts.

Life is difficult; facts uncompromising; and the passage to that fabled land where our brightest hopes are extinguished, our frail barks founder in darkness, one that needs, above all, courage, truth, and the power to endure.

Jane Austen) is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness.

When bedtime came the difficulty was to write to Bonamy, Jacob found. Yet he had seen Salamis, and Marathon in the distance. Poor old Bonamy! No; there was something queer about it. He could not write to Bonamy.

I want to write nothing in this book that I don't enjoy writing. Yet writing is always difficult.

At any rate, where books are concerned, it is notoriously difficult to fix labels of merit in such a way that they do not come off.

I know something. I know something. But expression of it comes so hard !

Why is it so difficult--so degradingly difficult--to bring the notion of Time into mental focus and keep it there for inspection? What an effort, what fumbling, what irritating fatigue!

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

This is needle-in-haystack shit. And the haystack is made of needles. On a needle planet.

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.

I didn't know what I thought, other than that nothing was easy anymore and no matter what I did, things got messed up.

Individuals with the Attunement Survival Style have difficulty attuning to their own needs; knowing, allowing, and expressing their needs is associated with humiliation, loss, and fear of rejection. Many individuals with the Attunement Survival Style become caretakers.