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Quotes About Troubles

The one thing an audience always has in common with a comedian is troubles. The Yiddish word for that is tsuris. You're always putting your tsuris on stage whether you like it or not. No one is untroubled, unless they're just, you know, an imbecile.
~ David Steinberg
There are so many traps, so many ways of getting screwed in this business.
~ Max Martin
Troubles teaches the grace of the Truth.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
For the madness of men is a divine spectacle: "In fact, could one make observations from the Moon, as did Menippus, considering the numberless agitations of the Earth, one would think one saw a swarm of flies or gnats fighting among themselves, struggling and laying traps, stealing from one another, playing, gamboling, falling, and dying, and one would not believe the troubles, the tragedies that were produced by such a minute animalcule destined to perish so shortly.
~ Michel Foucault
People usually escape from their troubles into the future; they draw an imaginary line across the path of time, a line beyond which their current troubles cease to exist.
~ Milan Kundera
Elle ne savait rien des soucis grands et temporels, elle vivait pour ses soucis petits et éternels.
~ Milan Kundera
The only really satisfactory confidante for your troubles is someone who enjoys them, and this inevitably cuts out anyone who actually loves you.
~ Celia Fremlin
It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world.
~ Eric Hoffer
It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles; and yet when King Laugh come he make them all dance to the tune he play.
~ Bram Stoker
I blinked down at a little blond child and then saw that my two hands were shaking violently, soundlessly, like old friends wishing not to burden me with their troubles.
~ Karen Russell
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
They say troubles never comes singly,
~ G.A. Henty
I think she must have been terribly blue. I think she must have had troubles in her life." "Do you ever get blue?" "Yes, everyone gets blue. But I don't think I could ever get melancholy like that, because I have you.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
So, I do want to be rich and famous. I am, as you know, a bottomless pit of ambition and need. But I also want to make something sweet. Something kids like us would have wanted to play to forget their troubles for a while.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
I have had a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
~ Gavin de Becker
But troubles far more menacing than sodomy threatened Japan.
~ Brett L. Walker
si tu lèches le sable d'un pays étranger quand tu arrives là-bas en visite tu repousse ses mauvais génies et tourments
~ Breyten Breytenbach
There hasn't been a war fought on American soil in more than 145 years. We've been distanced, protected, and made safe from the fear and horrors of war, especially from the possibility of having one in our own backyard...In the United States, we have helped support and create a government and a media machine that puts us in a bubble, reinforces a xenophobic view of the world, and puts all of our troubles "out of sight and out of mind.
~ Brian Wood
God does not ask much of us. But remembering Him, praising Him, asking for His grace, offering Him your troubles, or thanking Him for what He has given you will console you all the time.
~ Brother Lawrence
The reason for the prosperity of the wicked, and also for the troubles of the good, is not in our hands." Then
~ Herman Wouk
What a lamentable thing it is that men should blame the gods and regard us as the source of their troubles, when it is their own transgressions which bring them suffering that was not their destiny.
~ Homer
What a lamentable thing it is that men should blame the gods and regard us as the source of their troubles, when it is their own wickedness that brings them sufferings worse than any which destiny allots them.
~ Homer
Of all the creatures that breathe and creep about on Mother Earth there is none so helpless as man. As long as the gods grant him prosperity and health he imagines he will never suffer misfortune in the future. Yet when the blessed gods bring him troubles he has no choice but to endure them with a patient heart. The reason is that the view we mortals take of this earthly life depends on what Zeus, the Father of gods and men, sends us day by day.
~ Homer