Quotes About Hardship

Life is, of course, terrible.

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What makes most people just dreamers versus those who live the dream is that dreamers have never figured out the price of their dreams.

There were Hoover blankets, the newspapers used by the destitute to ward off the cold; Hoover flags, pockets empty of money; and Hoovervilles, the shantytowns of the homeless.

A man has usually to work through much mud before he gets his nugget.

There is, perhaps, no greater hardship at present inflicted on mankind in civilized and free countries than the necessity of listening to sermons.

During his prison days his wife had to support herself as she might. The decent articles of furniture which they had put together were sold; she gave up their little house, and, bowed down by misery, she also was brought near to death. When he was liberated he at once got work; but those who have watched the lives of such people know how hard it is for them to recover lost ground.

Anthony Trollope

CHAPTER XXIII POOR CANEBACK

The men who think of superannuation at sixty are those whose lives have been idle, not they who have really buckled themselves to work. It is my opinion that nothing seasons the mind for endurance like hard work. Port wine should perhaps be added.

Of absolute money tenders Mr. Crawley would accept none. But a bill here and there was paid, the wife assisting; and shoes came for Kate — till Kate was placed beyond the need of shoes; and cloth for Harry and Frank found its way surreptitiously in beneath the cover of that wife's solitary trunk — cloth with which those lean fingers worked garments for the two boys, to be worn — such was God's will — only by the one.

Anthony Trollope

On Sundays Mom invariably ran out of money, which is when she cracked eggs into the skillet over cubes of fried black sourdough bread. It was, I think, the most delicious and eloquent expression of pauperism.

of her pitiful dedushka peeling warty potatoes, from the catastrophic

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet

I've found it's harder for the family of the patient to accept what's happening. In most cases—not all—the dying person has accepted his fate.

It wasn't so easy like you think. Everybody was so starving and frightened, and tired they couldn't believe even what's in front of their eyes.

Misfortunes never come single.

my orderly, who threw me across a pack-horse, and succeeded in bringing me safely to the British lines. Worn with pain, and weak from the prolonged hardships

It was hard to be human. Hell, it was hard to live at all. Life was definitely not for the meek. Everytime something seemed to go right, at least 3 or 4 things had to go wrong. It was just the law of nature.

She understood how tenuous an existence that was. How humbling and how hard to have to ask for help and pray you would receive it.

He had that look of country music singers who never become stars nowadays, but always used to: square-jawed, handsome, but with too much worry on his face, too much living through the hard times. These days those men were the songwriters but not the singers.

Los hombres eran endurecidos en Rabka para que no se derrumbaran tras unas pocas semanas de servicios y tenían que hacerse insensibles a la sangre, a los gritos de agonía de mujeres y niños, debiendo realizar el trabajo con el mínimo ruido y la máxima eficacia

There's something inside me, something as hard as an iron bar, that crushes my will and stops every flicker of enthusiasm or desire. I strip my heart bare, and have a soul as black as any pitch. The thought that mine is not an isolated case offers me no consolation.