Difficult To Bear Quotes

#1. Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.

Juvenal

#2. I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother.

Phil Donahue

#3. Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune.

Aristotle.

#4. Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

Tacitus

#5. It is very difficult to bear the pain of ignorance of the person whom you love and who loves you, more than anything in the world..

Vennela

#6. Learning to endure times of disappointment, suffering, and sorrow is part of our on-the-job training. These experiences, while often difficult to bear at the time, are precisely the kinds of experiences that stretch our understanding, build our character, and increase our compassion for others.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#7. Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#8. What we have become accustomed to witnessing is a social illusion that takes precedence due to the fact that the process is so intrusive that it becomes difficult to bear witness to the unobtrusive, which is so subtle in comparison.

Lujan Matus

#9. Damn this human who had come into her life and made himself so important to her; had made coming to terms with her inner monster that much more difficult to bear.

Samantha Young

#10. How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.

Hesiod

#11. There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly exchange it for any kind of sociability, however trivial or cheap, for the tiniest outward agreement with the first person who comes along ...

Rainer Maria Rilke

#12. If this life is unhappy, it is a burden to us, which it is difficult to bear; if it is in every respect happy, it is dreadful to be deprived of it; so that in either case the result is the same, for we must exist in anxiety and apprehension.

Jean De La Bruyere

#13. For talk is evil: It is light to raise up quite easily, but it is difficult to bear, and hard to put down. No talk is ever entirely gotten rid of, once many people talk it up: It too is some god." - HESIOD

Stacy Schiff

#14. I'd loved books in my regular, pre-PCT life, but on the trail, they'd taken on even greater meaning. They were the world I could lose myself in when the one I was actually in became too lonely or harsh or difficult to bear. When

Cheryl Strayed

#15. Sometimes advises from others are more difficult to bear with than even slang.

Amit Kalantri

#16. You know I feel such tenderness for you. It's difficult to bear. I don't know what to do with my tenderness.

Ingmar Bergman

#17. [Books] were the world I could lose myself in when the one I was actually living in became too lonely or harsh or difficult to bear.

Cheryl Strayed

#18. For very long periods I am really patient, and then out breaks my bad temper. It is not so difficult to bear great trials, but these little buzzing mosquitos are so trying.

Robert Alexander

#19. Freedom is a difficult burden to bear in an absurd world.

Eugene Webb

#20. Keep in mind that part of growing up is dealing with difficult issues, and the benefits can be great if you have the courage to ask for help. Human beings are not designed to go through life alone. No one has to bear the burden of tough times all by themselves.

Jack Canfield

#21. Tension, especially with regard to horror, is a very difficult thing to sustain in the big sense.

Bear McCreary

#22. In our human lives, we are often impatient, ill-tempered, inappropriate. We find it difficult to treat our intimates with the love we really hold for them. Despite this, they bear with us because of the larger, higher level of family that they honor even in our outbursts. This is their commitment.

Julia Cameron

#23. My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.

Bear Grylls

#24. The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War II] who stood motionless, from one to eight in the morning, for the sake of having an egg, would have found it very difficult to do in order to save a human life.

Simone Weil

#25. If life becomes hard to bear we think of a change in our circumstances. But the most important and effective change, a change in our own attitude, hardly even occurs to us, and the resolution to take such a step is very difficult for us.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#26. Chastity is a difficult long term matter, one must wait patiently for it to bear fruit for the happiness of loving kindness which it must bring. But at the same time chastity is the sure way to happiness.

Pope John Paul II

#27. What is difficult? To keep a secret, to employ leisure well, to be able to bear an injury.

Chilon Of Sparta

#28. A man's sorrow runs uphill; true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep.

Djuna Barnes

#29. Homophobia is very, very difficult to root out, to extricate. That's why we have to bear witness. That's why we have to be so public about it, and that's why we can't just play footsie with it.

Cornel West

#30. Our national, criminal cases bear witness precisely to something universal, to some general malaise that has taken root among us, and with which, as with universal evil, it is already very difficult to contend.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#31. It seems that nothing is more difficult for the average man to bear than the feeling of not being identified with a larger group.

Erich Fromm

#32. One of the most difficult things about being a parent is that you have to bear the fact that you have to frustrate your child.

Jennifer Senior

#33. It can be ... difficult to to learn how the world truly is, to see it in its true shape and form ... most human beings never do. Most could not bear it.

Cassandra Clare

#34. The spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from the difficulties of existence; but an invitation to enter fully into that difficult existence, and there apply the Charity of God and bear the cost.

Evelyn Underhill

#35. Vladimir Putin and Russia. 'When a bear wakes up from hibernation, he doesn't eat a few blueberries and then go back to sleep.' They have their eyes on Eastern Europe, and if NATO is not willing to stand up forcefully to this threat today, it will only become more difficult to do so down the road.

Seth Moulton

#36. Young horses who cannot bear the whip or spur find life hard. At every smart they start forward and rush to their destruction, and when the way is stony and difficult, they know no better expedient than to overturn the cart and gallop madly away.

Selma Lagerlof

#37. Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult
at least I have found it so
than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.

Charles Darwin

#38. Bear it in mind that tomorrow must also have its own brand of assignments. Shifting today's work to tomorrow is an inevitable step towards massing up difficult tasks for yourself, whose risk of leading into failure is high.

Israelmore Ayivor

#39. When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me! Life is not easy, life is not difficult. Those are childish thoughts ... Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.

Hermann Hesse