Quotes About Hardship

Rats were eagerly eaten, and hard cabbage-stalk, with raw potato-peelings, which had been thrown into the sewers, was used for food.

Often and again, the troops around Richmond were without beef — once for twelve days at a time; they were often without flour, molasses or salt, living for days upon cornmeal alone! and the ever-ready excuse was want of transportation!

Bread made of inferior flour, which was occasionally sour, was issued. The meat was rusty bacon or beef-neck. Twice in one year we had good cuts of beef, but it was so far decayed as to be offensive. Occasionally we had a few worm-eaten peas, and twice I saw some small potatoes . . . . Rats were caught in and about the sinks, and sold freely. The slop-barrels were raked, and bread-crusts were fished out, to be dried in the sun and eaten.

Trouble seems to follow me around, waiting to club me with a tire iron.

Survival is not a pretty business.

Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.

she is bent under the weight of her burden

Our characters are forged in fires we didn't build.

The Road of Bones," said Dan. "That's a little bit unpleasant even by my standards.

During this time, he worked a series of odd jobs—a stint at a plasma center and then a temporary job service—but his chronic drinking and attitude always cost him his employment. Eventually, he got a job working third shift at the Ambrosia Chocolate Factory in downtown Milwaukee. His new job provided him with an ample salary, but third shift was hard on his body and he found it difficult to sleep.

Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.

Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.

Never invisible again , the monster said, finally letting up, its huge branch-like fists curled tight as a clap of thunder. It turned to Conor. But there are harder things than being invisible , it said.

He could feel his throat choking again and his eyes watering. It wasn't the drowning of the nightmare, though. It was simpler, clearer. Still just as hard.

Nevertheless, continued the monster, it was a kingdom, small but happy, for the king was a just king, a man whose wisdom was born out of hardship.

Goldin knew about the drug, knew its reputation for being dangerously addictive. But her own history of hard drug use, rather than making her more cautious, could sometimes mean that she was cavalier. I can handle it, she figured.

Some days simply lay on you like stones.

Solo la verdad podría romperme. ¿Qué hay más duro que la verdad?

Admit me for more than two jots and I will not be able to attend. Admit me for less and I will be here every day, while every night I will do what it takes to stay alive while I study here. I will sleep in alleys and stables, wash dishes for kitchen scraps, beg pennies to buy pens. I will do whatever it takes." I said the last words fiercely, almost snarling them.

Llevaba la pobreza colgada del cuello como una piedra.

Tienes una piedra en el corazón, y hay días en que pesa tanto que no se puede hacer nada.

You've deduced a universal truth: things are usually unfair.

Había días que te aplastaban como una losa.

Cuando vives en la calle, o desarrollas una sensibilidad especial para detectar ciertas cosas, o tu vida está condenada a ser breve y desgraciada.