Top 100 Living Hard Quotes
#1. Pale January lay
In its cradle day by day
Dead or living, hard to say.
Alfred Austin
#3. Piece by piece living is hard to do. It may even feel like the hardest thing. But it has this going for it: you never need to know what it is you're carrying on your shoulders.
Ann-Marie MacDonald
#5. Everybody says life is hard. I'm surprised nobody makes effort to not create any lives.
Orlyze Simons
#6. Personal finance is a means to an end - living a rich and fulfilling life. It is not hard. It is not complicated. I write this to share simple truths I've learned from some very wise people.
Rick Van Ness
#7. There never was, for all I could ever learn, a time when living was easy and peaceful.
Ellis Peters
#8. We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.
Terry Pratchett
#9. New Life Realization #1:
Being an adult is hard work. I know people tell you this growing up, but it doesn't really sink in until you're living it, waist deep in the swamps of no-free-time and not-enough-money.
New Life Realization #2:
It's worth it.
Cora Carmack
#10. It is not the job of writers to life our spirits. Books simply do what they do. They sometimes confirm the capricious drama of a childhood living room. When you think that you are in the grace of a dance you come upon something hard.
Dionne Brand
#11. One of the things I learned from my father, and it did not serve me well at all, was that he was a successful writer, he earned a living. And it was a shock for me to find out that it was actually hard to make a living as a writer.
Michael Tolkin
#12. Stop praying that God should make you a leader if you are not ready to do hard work.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
#13. Whether you are trying to finish a race or a book or that hard conversation you've been avoiding, the training leading up to that event is what makes it possible to face the fear & walk forward anyway. Quit complaining about discipline & start seeing it as a powerful tool for courageous living.
Annie F. Downs
#14. But there was escape, too, even in those days, for there was Whistler living in the grey mists with a faded orange moon. The nocturne transformed itself into dreamy rooms with Chopin's music creating a mood that softened the hard core of self.
Mark Tobey
#15. Dying, dying, someone told me just recently, dying is easy. Living is hard. for everyone.
James Hetfield
#16. No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live.
Andrea Hairston
#17. Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
Anne Sexton
#18. I'm glad I don't have to make a living farming. Too much hard work. Too many variables you don't have control over, like, is it going to rain? All I can say is, god bless the real farmers out there.
Fuzzy Zoeller
#19. Living to give to others, working hard for your destiny
and fighting for your dreams are the battles you will never regret no matter how long it takes.
Michael Hutchison
#20. People always say it's hard to do the right thing, but it's not. What's hard is living with the consequences after you do the right thing.
Ryan McKaig
#21. It's real hard to come off as even slightly superior when you're living a Tom and Jerry episode.
Paul Neilan
#22. Dying was and easy thing to accomplish, effortless in its agony. It was living that was hard, requiring endless toil and labor, and for all one's efforts, it could be stolen in an instant.
Danielle L. Jensen
#23. When I say that basically writing is a hard hustle, I don't mean that it is a bad life, if one can get away with it. It's the miracle of miracles to make a living by the typer.
Charles Bukowski
#24. If you're living off credit-card advances and ramen noodles, a buyout offer might be too hard to resist. And you'll be even smarter the second time around.
Bing Gordon
#25. All of those art-based fields are similar in that they're all hard to make a living in and they all require an intense amount of training and discipline.
Alicia Witt
#26. First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
Adam McKay
#28. Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
John Lennon
#29. We get used to living one way, even if it's a bad way or a hard one. When that's gone, there's a hole to fill. It's in our nature to try to fill it with anxieties and fears. It can take time to fill it with good things instead.
Cassandra Clare
#30. There is fundamental importance in living well even in hard times. By "living well," I mean finding a way to live that rings true to you and your values and that brings pleasure to your life.
Robin Mather
#31. Why were they whining then? ... whining, damn them, whining ...
Because they'd have to give up their hope of living like an animal and return to an honest, conscious, human life. The prospect was hard.
William H Gass
#33. It's very hard when you eat out every day for a living, and a new restaurant comes along and you haven't got that same vigour that you had 10 years ago.
Gordon Ramsay
#34. Humorists are not humorous twenty-four hours a day. In fact, when you get to know them well, they are often not humorous at all. They tend to be hypersensitive, taut, neurotic creatures driven by God know what obscure compulsion to earn their living the hard way.
Margaret Halsey
#35. I peek over the back of the couch and there she is, my goddess of death, her hair snaking out in a great black cloud, her teeth grinding hard enough to make living gums bleed.
Kendare Blake
#36. It's hard enough to tell good stories about people who analyze information for a living. It's even harder to do a good show about people who think for a living.
Henry Bromell
#37. So who needs grace? All of us, the saint as well as the sinner. The most conscientious, dutiful, hardworking Christian needs
God's grace as much as the most dissolute, hard-living sinner. All of us need the same grace. The sinner does not need more grace than the saint,
Jerry Bridges
#38. When living and loving could be so easy, why do we make it so hard?
Marty Rubin
#39. Someone asked me, what colour were those two years of living in Korea? I thought about it for a long time. There was no colour, I don't know what colour hard work is.
Yixing Zhang
#41. Unattached and aimless, these old men are always infatuated with little certainties and regularities such as those that ordered the life of Mr. Krupper as seen from outside. Habit is living. Anything unexpected reminds them of death.
("Hard Candy")
Tennessee Williams
#42. Her boyfriend can't hold a candle to me. Especially not while I'm holding the strobe light. It's hard to do modern dancing when you're living like it's 1882. Still, I make it look pretty easy.
Jarod Kintz
#43. Today is hard but who cares, by each hard day we are making stair for us.
Avinash Prasad
#44. Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job. If you work hard on your job you can make a living, but if you work hard on yourself you'll make a fortune.
Jim Rohn
#45. It was a matter of not living lavishly but enjoying what you had, growing things with your hands, working hard, but not being tied to a nine-to-five job, and generally feeling that there's more to life than money.
John Sulston
#46. Hard rock may have faded from the media for a time, but I've always been able to make a living, if not in America, then in the rest of the world.
David Coverdale
#47. By understanding the world I mean being equal to the world. It is the hard reality of living that is the essential, not the concept of life, that the ostrich philosophy of idealism propounds.
Oswald Spengler
#49. I am now in another hole, though I have to say, it is no better than the old one. Living with human beings is hard!
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#50. The concept of a troubled, lonely, middle-class, gay fifty-eight-year-old living alone in dusty squalor in a chocolate-box cottage in the heart of the Cotswolds was a hard one to grasp in the context of his sweaty, noisy, hectic, foreign, red-light existence.
Lisa Jewell
#51. Sometimes living can be hard, but it's only because we're alive that we can make each other laugh,cry ... be happy! In this world, if that's not a reason for being born in this world ... I don't know what is!
Natsuki Takaya
#52. Keep trying hard because there is always a next time.
Anamika Mishra
#53. That's what hiding away did, whether it was from the world or yourself, your past, or even your dreams. It took absolutely no effort to have a miserable life. But building a glorious one? A life worth living and sharing with others? That's what was hard. Joanna
Vicki Pettersson
#54. The Revolution is indeed living thorough the hard times of transition and sacrifice. The Cubans themselves have learned that socialism is built with clenched teeth and that revolution is no evening stroll. But afterall, if the future came on a platter, it would not be of this world.
Eduardo Galeano
#55. Dead people are easy to love. It's the living ones who are hard.
Laurence Overmire
#56. Love is the easy part; it's the living without the love you need is hard.
Jaycee Dugard
#57. Tell them," God said through Isaiah, "hard times are coming, but don't give up - now or ever. Don't let them underestimate My power to reorder the universe. Tell them to keep trusting Me and living the way I told them to in spite of what's coming.
James MacDonald
#58. It seemed like a joke, how much all of these dudes looked alike, like living was so hard it just erased your features, rubbed out anything distinctive.
Gillian Flynn
#59. Fighters find it hard to give up doing what they do best - fighting for a living.
Evander Holyfield
#60. If you know that whatever is made inevitable breaks down, you needn't seek too hard for achievement. If you know that all living beings inevitably die, you needn't work too hard on health lore.
Zicheng Hong
#61. It wasn't hard to follow the scent of blood to the living room where the fae had been killed. It had been a violent death, perfect for creating ghosts.
Patricia Briggs
#62. I am living proof that the American dream still exists. It is still alive and well. There is only one trick, you have to be willing to roll up your sleeves and work very, very hard.
Paula Deen
#63. Dying and living, weeping and laughing--all parts of our existence here on earth. What would happen in your friendships if together you embraced the hard parts of life and did not fear weeping together?
Afton Rorvik
#64. Striving for happiness is a long, hard journey with many challenges. It requires eternal vigilance to win the victory. You cannot succeed with sporadic little flashes of effort. Constant and valiant living is necessary.
Jack H. Goaslind
#65. ..Breaking yet budding,
dying yet living - standing
amongst ruins and rage,
reaching for possibilities
playing hard to get.
Meraaqi
#66. For anyone who has that calling and is trying also to make a living at it, it is really hard.
Julie Gold
#67. The drop in living standards most people would have to accept to reduce climate change significantly would still leave us far better off than previous generations, so it's inexcusable that we find it so hard to renounce material goods.
Raimond Gaita
#68. You become visibly stressed because you are working hard to pay for a standard of living so robust that it overwhelms your capacity to consume it.
William Thorsell
#69. I tried so hard to find life within myself, to live for something great - something that would make life worth living
B.P. Morgan
#71. Because it is so hard, some people wait until they are in their thirties, forties, fifties, or even older before breaking their silence.
Erin Merryn
#72. Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging its gifts by the covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love, by wisdom, with power.
Giovanni Giocondo
#73. I try to work hard. I'm really proud of what I get to do as a living. I still pinch myself. But I also know it's a craft, and I can get better at it and learn every time I do it. So I try to work hard no matter what the task is.
Benedict Cumberbatch
#74. It's hard to find a girl with a heart of gold, when you're living in a four letter world.
Warren Zevon
#75. Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities invaluable because you increase the odds of serendipitous encounters-you gain exposure to the envelope of serendipity.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#76. Andrew would say that dying for something is easy because it is associated with glory. Living for something, Andrew would say, is the hard thing.
Donald Miller
#77. She was restless. She drove a little too fast, swam a little too far offshore. She hitchhiked. She skied recklessly. While Sylvia's rabid perfectionism was very real, she was far from the good-girl persona she worked so hard to cultivate.
Elizabeth Winder
#78. Living a hard life with niggas whose loyalty was only for the streets, and never for a woman, was embedded in me.
Jessica N. Watkins
#79. I think you can go from being not very funny to working really hard for 10 years and figuring out how to make a living on the road, but I don't think you can rise much above that.
Amy Schumer
#80. Philosophy does not promise to secure anything external for man, otherwise it would be admitting something that lies beyond its proper subject-matter. For as the material of the carpenter is wood, and that of statuary bronze, so the subject-matter of the art of living is each person's own life.
Epictetus
#81. It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible.
Billy Joel
#82. Living by your principles will always be the harder path. But you have to do it anyway. You have to do what's right no matter how hard it gets, or one day you'll find out you've become somebody you can't live with.
Zoe Cannon
#83. Too many things in too small a space cut off flow, block creativity, and bury beauty, much like a bad cold can make it hard to breathe. Remove things from this space today.
Laura Staley
#84. Success is like water, the more thirsty you are for it is the more you will drink it, and you'll need it forever to survive.
Werley Nortreus
#85. Extraordinary change can happen in your life, but it will take extraordinary people, extraordinary courage and extraordinary faith to believe that this won't be a repeat of your past.
Shannon L. Alder
#86. No one lived forever. But you fought for every minute you could get. Bought a little more with a lot of hard work.
James S.A. Corey
#87. Life is hard. If anyone tells you otherwise, they're lying. But life without faith is even harder.
Lori Hatcher
#88. It's hard being weird. No - it's hard living in a culture that makes it hard.
Felicia Day
#89. Is it hard to make a living in show business? Yeah.
Marc Maron
#90. Dying's easy." Illyan's drawn features grew distant. How much did he remember of his agonized pleading to Miles for an easy death, so few weeks ago? "Living's hard. Let the son of a bitch stand his court-martial. Every last eternal minute of it.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#91. It's easy to be liked by strangers. It's very hard to be loved and connected to the people in your home when you're always bringing them your most exhausted self and resenting the fact that the scraps you're giving them aren't cutting it.
Shauna Niequist
#92. It's very, very difficult because we're living in a world where they invent things in order to hide things from parents. There are these secret creator app guys who make things to intentionally do that, to keep your parents in the dark, and you've really got to work extra-hard to stay on top of it.
Christian Slater
#93. Unfortunately in my case, because of what I do for living, here in Ireland is very hard for me to find a doctor who can just deal with me as a person, that can get beyond Sinead O'Connor. I had to go to England to find a psychiatrist for my case.
Sinead O'Connor
#94. Myriam and I are both hard workers, and together we make a strong team. We found ways to make a living, educate our children, and to take care of my parents until their last days, and we managed to have fun doing it. ...The friendships we made along the way were the biggest treasure of all.
Marc Ashton
#95. She was the living, breathing proof that the hard things in life didn't have to defeat you - or even define you.
Susan Wiggs
#96. Instead of leaving on a gas-guzzling generator all night, Mama and Papa make a killing by making hard 'n fast love like a couple of blinded down-'n-out mixamatosis rabbits with nothing to live for.
Jonathan Dunne
#97. Let us hope that for many it does mean the end of trouble so far as earning a livelihood is concerned, that it means happy and comfortable home living honestly earned. But there are other troubles ahead for her, and plenty of hard work.
Florenz Ziegfeld
#98. The race may be rough and tough, hard and hash, rude and crude, but only the pure and tough comes out clean and victorious
Ikechukwu Joseph
#99. It's hard to live up to The Beatles. When Wings toured, they got slated. Even Dad found it hard living up to The Beatles. I started out playing under an alias because I wanted to start quietly.
James McCartney
#100. Hard lives begat hard laws, not just in the necessities of living, but also in those of believing.
Steven Erikson
