Quotes About Hardship

Such is frequently the fate, and such the stern development, of the feminine character and person, when the woman has encountered, and lived through, an experience of peculiar severity. If she be all tenderness, she will die. If she survive, the tenderness will either be crushed out of her, or--and the outward semblance is the same--crushed so deeply into her heart that it can never show itself more.

In cases of distasteful occupation, the second day is generally worse than the first; we return to the rack with all the soreness of the preceding torture in our limbs.

There's a very old expression, Scythe Goddard told him. 'To be painless is to be gainless.

Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work. Think of how many times you put on your underwear in a lifetime. It was appalling, it was disgusting, it was stupid.

Love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons.

Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work

Hospitals and jails and whores: these are the universities of life. I've got several degrees. Call me Mr.

Trouble and pain were what kept a man alive. Or trying to avoid trouble and pain. It was a full time job.

ambition rarely has anything to do with talent. Luck is best, and talent limps along a little bit behind luck.

How much shit does a man have to take just to stay alive?" "Plenty," came the answer, "and more …

I was the only one without. you could hit bottom and then find another bottom. balls.

Just living until you die is hard work, I said

But trouble and pain were what kept a man alive. Or trying to avoid trouble and pain. It was a full time job.

The good times were over. Nobody gave a shit and nobody had any money and if they had any, they kept it.

the wind blows hard tonight and it's a cold wind and I think about the boys on the row. I hope some of them have a bottle of red. it's when you're on the row that you notice that everything is owned and that there are locks on everything. this is the way a democracy works: you get what you can, try to keep that and add to it if possible. this is the way a dictatorship works too only they either enslave or destroy their derelicts. we just forgot ours. in either case it's a hard cold wind.

But it's all the little people, Buk, the twenty-five-buck-a-week guys who gave up everything to keep the thing going. The guys with cardboard in their shoes. The guys who slept on the floor.

There is really nothing you can do easily: live or die or accept fame or money or defeat, it's all hard.

Once you have been poor a long time you gain a certain respect for money.

Algunas personas nunca enloquecen. Tendrán unas vidas realmente horribles.

hell, I worked HARD all my life!" (they think this is a virtue, but it only proves a man is a damn fool.)

the Definition of Life is Trouble.

He had nothing, and he found out that having nothing was difficult too.

I had come a long way from a guy who had worked in slaughterhouses, who had crossed the country with a railroad track gang, who had worked in a dog biscuit factory, who had slept on park benches, who had worked the nickel and dime jobs in a dozen cities across the nation.

hell is built piece by piece brick by brick around you.