Quotes About Difficulty

Hardship makes the world obscure.

The fundamental difficulty in myothermic observations is the smallness of the changes involved and their rapidity.

When I was in school, they say everybody can do art. And I was, like, a little bit obstinate - not an anarchist, but I was always asking questions. I said, 'Isn't art supposed to be difficult?' If we can all do art, then it's not really art. It's supposed to be difficult.

To me, respect for human life begins with making it more difficult to obtain an inanimate object that is designed to snuff it out.

The difficulty of modern poetry does not stem from its complexity, but rather from the fact that, like mysticism or love, it demands total surrender—and an equally total vigilance.

An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.

He said that journeys involving the company of the dead were notorious for their difficulty but that in truth every journey was so accompanied.

Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty. All in our custody seethes with an inner restlessness. But in dreams we stand in this great democracy of the possible and there we are right pilgrims indeed. There we go forth to meet what we shall meet.

He said that journeys involving the company of the dead were notorious for their difficulty but that in truth every journey was so accompanied. He said that in his opinion it was imprudent to suppose that the dead have no power to act in the world, for their power is great and their influence often most weighty with just those who suspect it least.

If only it wasn't so difficult. It was far easier to believe in unhappiness than in happiness.

The number of games went up or down according to the brutal, elegant logic of the economics of fun: a certain amount of difficulty plus a certain amount of your friends plus a certain amount of interesting strangers plus a certain amount of reward plus a certain amount of opportunity equaled fun

Sometimes hard problems don't have easy solutions.

However bad things seem to be, they can always get worse!

Is the depressing part that he's only half right - it's not that she doesn't need rescuing but that nobody else will be able to do it? She has always somehow known that she is the one who will have to rescue herself. Or maybe what's depressing is that this knowledge seems like it should make life easier, and instead it makes it harder.

All he had to do was solve the mystery of the universe, which may be difficult but is not as difficult as living an ordinary life.

What some people wanted was sometimes too hard to get, and the stress of trying was sometimes too hard to deal with... Maybe doing well in life was just too hard for some people.

when life looks difficult, stop and realize that you're only one thought removed from being at peace.

Gonna be a real frog-strangling turd-floater.

It's not supposed to be easy. Anyone who finds it easy is stupid.

The PCT had gotten easier for me, but that was different from it getting easy.

Saying it's hard is ultimately a justification to do whatever seems like the easiest thing to do -- have the affair, stay at that horrible job, end a friendship over a slight, keep loving someone who treats you terribly.

The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.