Quotes About Hardship

All the chief knew for sure was that in hard times The People should hold together, and last winter they had not done so. They had inflicted an injustice on themselves and the two old women, and he knew that The People had suffered silently since that day.

Both learned that from hardship, a side of people emerged that they had not known. The People had thought themselves to be strong, yet they had been weak. And the two old ones whom they thought to be the most helpless and useless had proven themselves to be strong.

Life's hard," said Mr. Harricot slowly, "but it's healthier that way. If you get what you wants too soon and too easy it only makes you dissatisfied with it.

So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You shall not be able to lift anything without agony. Every passing minute will make your muscles crack. What is feather to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become difficult. Life will become monstrous about you. To come, to go, to breathe, will be so many terrible tasks for you. Your lungs will feel like a hundred-pound weight.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.

People overwhelmed with trouble do not look behind; they know only too well that misfortune follows them.

A hundred francs, thought Fantine. But in what trade can one earn a hundred sous a day? Come! said she, let us sell what is left. The unfortunate girl became a woman of the town.

Injustice had made her sulle, and misery had made her ugly.

People who are overwhelmed with troubles never do look back. They know only too well that misfortune follows in their wake.

He saw nothing of all this. People who are crushed do not look behind them. They know but too well the evil fate which follows them.

There is one thing sadder than having no money to buy bread; that is having nothing with which to buy medicine.

Nada mais via que uma imensa dificuldade de ser.

CHAPTER IX—NEW TROUBLES

You blame yourself when they are the ones to blame." Rose gave her a steady, reassuring look. "Remember, cara, hard times don't last. Land and family do.

But for now, I am an explorer again, made bold by hardship and strengthened by loss, going west in search of something that exists only in my imagination. A life different than one I've known before.

No one would want to live this way, and yet here they were. The Great Depression.

How could you hold on to ideals when you were sick and cold and starving?

Three years ago, I began writing this novel about hard times in America: the worst environmental disaster in our history; the collapse of the economy; the effect of massive unemployment. Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that the Great Depression would become so relevant in our modern lives, that I would see so many people out of work, in need, frightened for the future.

You blame yourself when they are the ones to blame." Rose gave her a steady, reassuring look. "Remember, cara, hard times don't last. Land and family do." TWELVE In November, the first winter storm battered them from the north, leaving behind a fine layer of snow.

But even as the Depression had worsened, food prices had gone up. Five gallons of kerosene cost a dollar. Two pounds of butter cost fifty cents. Six pounds of rice cost nearly half a dollar.

I need your help with Ant. He won't understand." "I don't understand. This is America. How can this be happening to us?" "Hard times," Elsa said. "That's a darn lie." "Language, Loreda," Mom said tiredly.

We have this land because we worked for it, because no matter how hard life was, we stayed here. This land provided for us. It will

She couldn't let herself be seduced by the idea of credit. Nothing in this life was free, for migrants most of all.