Quotes About Hardship

Life is hard. It's cruel sometimes. It's merciless and unfair, but we all go through difficult times, one way or another.

I was so tired of people assuming I was too fragile or innocent to protect myself. What was it about me that made them think I couldn't handle hardship?

Sometimes life is cruel, and at times it can seem rather pointless and tragic. But occasionally and surprisingly, certain hardships can lead us down a new path we never could have imagined.

All this, Gillian, has made me realize that life is full of heartbreaks and hardships, and some of them are tragic beyond words. But we all have to find a way to keep going. We need to know that it'll get easier, and life will be good again.

Sometimes, nature is a beast," he said, "and tragedy is unavoidable. I see a great deal of it in my profession, and I have learned that most of us must face some form of challenge in our lives. But without hardship, we wouldn't learn and grow.

my share of hardships. My childhood

Life is so unfair.

A Japanese can live on a teaspoonful of rice a day. We were the best breed of worker they had ever hired in their lives.

the market system handed down to human beings a sentence of "life at hard labor."18

Consumption is a social relationship, the dominant relationship in our society—one that makes it harder and harder for people to hold together, to create community.

I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent.

No amount of wishful thinking was changing the cold hard fact that she was a teenage girl living in the Dominican Republic of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina, the Dictatingest Dictator who ever Dictated.

What can you do? Tomás said. Life smacks everybody around.

heavier than bad luck and twice as ugly.

Oscar's moms had bought their house with double shifts at her two jobs. Ybón bought hers with double shifts too, but in a window in Amsterdam.)

In December we move into the house. It's a half-ruin and only two rooms are habitable. It resembles the first place I lived when I arrived in this country. We don't have heat for the entire winter, and for a month we have to bathe from a bucket. Casa de Campo, I call the place in jest, but he doesn't take kindly to any criticism of his "niño." Not everyone can own a home, he reminds me. I saved eight years for this.

exaggerated boogeymen in scary stories told by their elders, who, in the fashion of all old people since the dawn of time, believed theirs had been the vastly harder and more consequential life.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

We all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Bitter poverty has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

wise man once said, the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn't work if you push it.

Farming can't be hard, or farmers couldn't do it.

I think that all things which evoke discipline: study, and our duties to men and to the commonwealth, and war, and personal hardship, and even the need for subsistence, ought to be greeted by us with profound gratitude; for only through them can we attain to the least detachment; and only so can we know peace.

When a movie is called 'searingly honest,' it's almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.