Quotes About Hardship

Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and loss, in order to discover ourselves. Because out of suffering comes the strongest souls.

The people that criticize your life are usually the same people that don't know the price you paid to get where you are now.

We forget that every good that is worth having must be paid for in sweat and tears everyday.

Letting go is sometimes the hardest thing, but it is the most "real love" you will ever experience.

He had studied, and worked, and slaved, and eaten untold buckets of shit, to have this opportunity.

We've built a million kitchens, For the cooks to burn our beans; We've walked a hundred million miles, We've cleaned out camp latrines. If we ever get to heaven, the angels all will yell: Take a front seat, Men of Schofield, You've done your hitch in hell.

Not to fall was too hard, too hard; and he felt the silent lapse of his soul, as it would be at some instant to come, falling, falling, but not yet fallen, still unfallen, but about to fall.

Folk take a battering but, they do; they get born and they get brought up and they get fuckt. That's the story; the cot to the fucking funeral pyre.

Life's a sonofabitch, then you die.

PEOPLE WHO ARE unknowledgeable about agriculture often refer to farm labor as unskilled. Take bucking bales. Try inserting your fingers inside the twine on ninety pounds of compacted grass after it has been rained on, then flinging it up on the flatbed of a truck and repeating the process every four minutes for eight hours. If you want to up the ante, do it in an electric storm.

James Lee Burke

When society dropped its hammer on your head, well, there it is. Soup

They did not grow up like the children of the eighties and nineties, stripped of any semblance of family other than the constant presence of drugs and violence. Their "I was raised with nuthin' and went to Harvard anyway" experience was the criterion that white editors used to hire them. But then again, that was partly how I got through too. The whole business made me want to scream.

One's hard luck and misfortune form the measuring stick for future good luck and fortune.

Did I want a dog? No. Did I need a dog? Also no. We were six kids running for our lives, not knowing where our next meal was coming from. Could we afford to feed a dog? Wait for it—no.

This was a perfect storm of crap, all flying through the same fan, right at him.

life is supposed to have ups and downs. But for me, it's been more like ups and downs... and downs... and downs.

We Irish don't always succeed, but we're pretty decent at grinding it out.

third or fourth.

Sometimes a bad wind blows.

You need to understand that life's not fair. Sometimes you have to do things you don't want to. You're like all the other Americans I know. Spoiled. Spoiled and entitled. It's infuriating. You have never known hardship, so you whine about anything that happens.

Now Mom was working double shifts at the diner all the time just to make enough money, and Bear was spending 99 percent of his time on our couch, except maybe to go to the bathroom or to collect his stupid unemployment check.

When we came to this country, unfortunately, my father lost his job, and we were this close to destitution. We were put on food stamps. We were put in public housing.

When you grow up hard, when you grow up surviving, unfortunately, it helps.