Life Troubling Quotes

#1. I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.

D.H. Lawrence

#2. Life is a big collaboration - and when you're tackling something that is painful and troubling and is causing you such desperate grief that you think life's not worth living - you need to reach out. To people who will reach back.

Tim Gunn

#3. To be honest, my life has exhibited many strange and sometimes troubling characteristics, but shortness is not one of them. It feels like an eternity since I started school and a techno-social epoch since I moved to San Francisco. My phone couldn't even connect to the internet back then.

Robin Sloan

#4. The power of women united, I am again reminded, is an invincible thing.

Sarah Strohmeyer

#5. So overall, though my life is far from perfect, I'm contented with it. And in a peculiar way, I'm grateful for the troubling emotions I experienced. The obstacles we face in life can provide powerful incentives for change.

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

#6. Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighborhood of despair. Even when all doors remain closed, God will open up a new path only for you. Be thankful!

Elif Shafak

#7. Nobody has ever gotten a bigger push than Bill Clinton gave to Obama.

Mario Cuomo

#8. Many life-affirming questions lead to an endless spool of disconcerting propositions and contradictory conclusions, and even more troubling, some queries prove unanswerable.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#9. Distraught with the comprehension of his demise, a shovel stood dormant, in the ditch of her own digging. Now sheltered from the glare of greed and ambition, were the distasteful thoughts sprinkled in fool's gold.

Don Swann II

#10. Instead of writing backwards over what had happened, giving structure and meaning to his story, he wrote forwards, slipping into troubling futures.

Alan McCluskey

#11. It was strange, I reflected.. that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one's life, the greatest divides from home and familiarity, there were these moments of undeniable joy.

Elizabeth Kostova

#12. Welcome to the real world, she said to me.
Condescendingly.
Take a seat.
Take your life.
Plot it out in black and white.

John Mayer

#13. O Woman, you are not merely the handiwork of God, but also of men; these are ever endowing you with beauty from their own hearts ... You are one-half woman and one-half dream.

Rabindranath Tagore

#14. When we throw ourselves off the power seat and allow Jesus to fill our soul, heart and mind - our whole life - with His leadership, the troubling, painful and fearful circumstances of our life lose their power over us.

Lynn Donovan

#15. If you can laugh your way through life, you can have a good time as you're going through the sometimes troubling time that we have in our lives.

Mehmet Oz

#16. Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.

Edgar Allan Poe

#17. If people choose to live their life in a way that does not confront the more troubling aspects of their experience, that's fine, if it works for them. But it will probably make them uncomfortable if they come up against somebody like me. So they just shouldn't! They shouldn't read my work!

Joyce Maynard

#18. Is it a good life, Daddy? Nkiru has taken to asking lately on the phone, with that faint, vaguely troubling American accent. It is not good or bad, I tell her, it is simply mine. And that is what matters.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#19. The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it

Mark Twain

#20. It is best not to have been born at all: but, if born, as quickly as possible to return whence one came.

Sophocles

#21. If this goes on . . ." fiction takes an element of life today, something clear and obvious and normally something troubling, and asks what would happen if that thing, that one thing, became bigger, became all-pervasive, changed the way we thought and behaved.

Ray Bradbury

#22. I don't know that human beings were meant to mate for life or be monogamous. But, for me, the aspect of marriage that is troubling is that it's a contract that is governed by the state, and I don't want the state to have control over my personal affairs.

Laura Wasser