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Quotes About Hardship

Dan jika kau miskin, penderitaan menjadi mata uangmu.
~ Khaled Hosseini
İyi ÅŸeylerin hiçbiri bedava deÄŸildi.Sevgi bile.Her ÅŸeyin bedelini ödüyordum.Ve eÄŸer yoksulsan,elindeki tek nakit ,kah?r çekmekti.
~ Khaled Hosseini
I had always pictured her living a tumultuous, wayward life, hard years of bad luck-fits and starts,collapse,regret-and ill advised, desperate love affairs. I had always imagined that she'd self-destructed, likely drank herself to the kind of early death that people always call tragic
~ Khaled Hosseini
He pointed to an old man dressed in ragged clothes trudging down a dirt path, a large burlap pack filled with scrub grass tied to his back. "That's the real Afghanistan, Agha sahib. That's the Afghanistan I know. You? You've always been a tourist here, you just didn't know it.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Most of our neighbors in Fremont were bus drivers, policemen, gas station attendants, and unwed mothers collecting welfare, exactly the sort of blue-collar people who would soon suffocate under the pillow Reganomics pressed to their faces.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Perhaps, they reasoned, the poor, stringent lives
~ Khaled Hosseini
This is what he knew that Paul didn't: the world was precarious and sometimes cruel. He'd had to fight hard to achieve what Paul simply took for granted.
~ Kim Edwards
Anything worth having is going to be hard
~ Kim Harrison
Two thousand miles, Rachel," he said tightly, and I guessed that no, it didn't violate the rules of whatever he was doing out here, because he sure wasn't out here keeping the coven from attacking me. "I have eaten nothing but slop for two days and used facilities I wouldn't let my dogs urinate in. And what about that couple in the RV outside Texas? I'll never get that memory out of my head." - Trent to Rachel
~ Kim Harrison
Long ago travel was full of risk and hard work. The English noun "travel" was born from the word travail, which came (by way of France) from the Latin tripalium, meaning a three-staked instrument of torture. To travel was to struggle against steep odds and have no guarantees of success. It required a lot of planning and expense, and great physical endurance.
~ Kim Heacox
If she could help it, she would totally forget about her penniless, project-housing upbringing. She would forget about the fact that she and her younger sister, Diane, had sometimes gone to bed starving…as well as about being forced to wear secondhand clothing, all of
~ Kimberla Lawson Roby
Was I lazy? Had I not applied for situations, attended lectures, written articles, and worked day and night like a man possessed? Had I not lived like a miser, eaten bread and milk when I had plenty, bread alone when I had little, and starved when I had nothing? Did I live in an hotel? Had I a suite of rooms on the first floor?
~ Knut Hamsun
Nothing good ever came easy." (Garreth)
~ Kresley Cole
My mother once told me that diamonds were born of pressure, but I never understood what she meant until I met you.
~ Kresley Cole
E embora valha muito a pena ter ambições, elas não são conquistadas a pouco custo: demandam seu quinhão de trabalho e abnegação, ansiedade e desânimo.
~ L. M. Montgomery
Adversity reminds men of religion.
~ Livy
He that hath no cross deserves no crown.
~ Francis Quarles
Don't respect a lot of rappers, feel I had a harder life
~ Kevin Gates
One press account said I was an overnight success. I thought that was the longest night I've ever spent.
~ Sandra Cisneros
If there is to be no loss whatever of dignity or self-respect in getting and staying on relief, then there can be no gain in dignity or self-respect in makings some sacrifices to keep off.
~ Henry Hazlitt
Momma kept a garden, which sounds romantic to people who have never held a hoe
~ Rick Bragg
I still like to live in a whimsical world that seems more romantic and fantasy-related because real life seems so hard
~ Taylor Swift
It's amazing and sad what we have to do to survive sometimes.
~ Corey Taylor
I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre; nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was.
~ Bryan Adams