Top 100 Quotes About Harsh Life
#1. It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature.
Charles Darwin
#2. As we age we begin to grasp at youthful bliss like a life raft in a sea of harsh reality.
Brad Herzog
#3. They have no harsh edges with each other, no spiny conflicts, they ride through life like conjoined jellyfish - expanding and contracting instinctively, filling each other's spaces liquidly.
Gillian Flynn
#4. Fleetingly he wondered what the man's life had been like, where it had gone so desperately wrong. No one tried to end up like this, alone and defenseless and poor, eking a living from the harsh Arizona desert.
Kristin Hannah
#5. Was life, were human relations like this always, Therese wondered. Never solid ground underfoot. Always like gravel, a little yielding, noisy so the whole world could hear, so one always listened, too, for the loud, harsh step of the intruder's foot.
Patricia Highsmith
#6. Don't you own a pair of riding pants?"
Tucker shook her head, wondering how fast horses were.
Lorelei shot her sister a harsh glare. "Why does it seem as if she's never ridden a day in her life?"
Vivian crossed her arms. "Because I brought her to a manor, not a stable.
Emory Sharplin
#7. In those days," continued Ishvar, "it seemed to me that that was all one could expect in life. A harsh road strewn with sharp stones and, if you were lucky, a little grain."
"And later?"
"Later I discovered there were different types of roads. And a different way of walking on each.
Rohinton Mistry
#8. Never allow anyone or anything to demise or dull your truest identity. Hurtful words and harsh judgments have no impact when your north star, your guiding light, shines from the center of your chest and beats from your own truest heart.
Toni Sorenson
#9. Lightning strikes the earth and thunder heralds the doom but the earth bears it all in silence, teaching us that life may be harsh to us but we shouldn't be so to life.
Tista Ray
#10. Jane lives by this philosophy: Life, especially that of dogs, is too short for harsh training and too long to be without learning.
Jane Young
#11. We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things, also of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only one kind, what would he have to say?
Michel De Montaigne
#12. Older forms of indentured servanthood and the bond-service of biblical times had often been harsh, but Christian abolitionists concluded that race-based, life-long chattel slavery, established through kidnapping, could not be squared with biblical teaching either in the Old Testament or the New.
Timothy Keller
#13. I used to have a big dog, a rottweiler, to guard the place. One night I was working late, and he was outside barking in the snow. He wouldn't stop. Then he stopped. I went out ten minutes later with a lamp, and there was a ring of wolves eating my dog.
Martin Cruz Smith
#14. Face it; life's gonna chew you up and spit you out. If you're lucky you'll get stuck to the bottom of someone's shoe and be carried far, far away from it all.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#15. You may call me selfish if you will, conservative or reactionary, or use any other harsh adjective you see fit to apply, but an American I was born, an American I have remained all my life.
Henry Cabot Lodge
#16. It occurred to Rosie that she couldn't hide either, even though the truth had been hidden from her. Now she was out from the shadows, out in the open for the first time in her life, standing in the harsh light.
Denny Taylor
#17. There's a difference between someone who's 'harsh' and someone who is 'hard.' Life was hard. You lived in the South, as my grandparents did, and you had to survive. That is hard.
Clarence Thomas
#18. Emotional exhibitionism is one block away from whoring for attention.
Alice Walsh
#19. Life can be tough and harsh at times. That's what makes it great. Every day is a celebration of survival.
Jonathan Heatt
#20. We'd met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world.
Nicholas Sparks
#21. Someday is a dangerous word. Sometimes, it meant to be Never.
Harsh Gupta
#22. In my own life, I have noticed when I have been meeting directors, that the same sentence with the same inflection can be said by a man, like: "Get me this." But if the same thing is said by a woman, it's seen as harsh and unacceptable. That always fascinates me.
Meryl Streep
#23. The world is harsh and inconsiderate, and you can rely only on your family.
Gary Shteyngart
#24. Captain gives her a hard look. "You know what shit is? Killing three innocent people. Think your life is bad now, try living with that." Her voice is harsh.
Lisa McMann
#26. One of your biggest lessons so far in life has been to learn to forgive myself over and over again and not to be so harsh with myself.
Krishna Das
#27. Bring on the controversy. I write real life. It's harsh and sometimes gritty, but it's real. Why should we tip toe around that?
Shandy L. Kurth
#28. If there is a next life, I hope it's in the past; I don't think the future will be any more handleable.
I think it's a little harsh how the END button is red.
Ned Vizzini
#29. Want to Think Big? Then get rid of the negative influences in your life. Harsh? Possibly. Healthy? Yes.
Michael Port
#30. [ ... ] all women want to be objectified.
Alice Walsh
#31. As a governor, I've signed virtually every kind of pro-life legislation that we can sign under existing federal law, none of which have been harsh or punitive, but I think they've been important to really point out a pro-life culture in Arkansas. That's, for me, a good thing.
Mike Huckabee
#32. By Strict Father morality, harsh prison terms for criminals and life imprisonment for repeat offenders are the only moral options.
George Lakoff
#33. Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#34. I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure.
Chen Shui-bian
#35. And he recalled the ancient adage: Who must do the harsh things? He who can.
Trevanian
#36. It's easy to dislike the truth for it is ugly and harsh to the naked eye.
Antonio Kowatsch
#37. You don't trust any man, Ephani. (Danger)
And neither should you, little sister. Take a bit of Amazon advice. Ride him into the ground all night long, then slide a blade between his ribs come morning. (Ephani)
That's harsh. (Alexion)
So is life. (Ephani)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#38. He thought he would choke to death on it, on the harsh truth he'd been trying to ignore his entire life: that no matter how bad he wanted it or how he hard he tried to get it, he would never be worthy of anyone's love.
Tommy Wallach
#39. If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air.
Dave Eggers
#40. When life is so harsh that a man loses all hope in himself, then he raises his eyes to a shining rock, worshipping it, just to find hope again, rather than looking to his own acts for hope and salvation. Yes, atheism IS a redemptive belief. It is theism that denies man's own redemptive nature.
Isaac Asimov
#41. Life is gamble, It's harsh and painful most of the time, and it's not for the timid. Spoils go to the victor, not to the one who doesn't even show up for the battle.
-Acheron
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#42. The harsh reality will be the fear that has always been at the back of your mind coming to play right in front of your eyes
Tshepang Sharon Koji
#43. Within a religious framework, a belief in free will supports the notion of sin - which seems to justify not only harsh punishment in this life but eternal punishment in the next.
Sam Harris
#44. Life on earth is hard. Competition for the necessities of life is fierce. How ridiculous to believe that the law of harsh survival would not be true elsewhere, or that it would be negated by the progress of technology in an advanced civilization ...
Greg Bear
#45. 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
#46. If you are a slave to your emotions, life will be a roller coaster ride. There will be highs, but a lot of lows, and you will not make much progress.
Shiv Harsh
#47. I love things that are harsh and things that are too loud. And I love lulling people into a false sense of security. That's life.
FKA Twigs
#48. You and I can face the harsh realities of life in this broken world with courage and hope because we do not face them all by ourselves. Immanuel ("God with us") is indeed with us in power, glory, and grace.
Paul David Tripp
#49. Yet the very phrase "pro-life" has too often meant "harsh and exclusionary," and associating myself with such a movement made me judgmental and giving a witness that was contrary to the Gospel call.
Simone Campbell
#50. Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a man at some sudden turn of the path of life, it dashes off for the moment his mask of civilization and gives a glimpse of the stranger and stronger face below.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#51. Most times, the best thing people deserve from us is our silence.speak through silence and it will be more powerful than harsh words
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#52. Sometimes life seemed particularly unfair, unduly harsh, and beyond bearing.
Amy Harmon
#53. She reminded him that the weak will never enter the kingdom of love, which is a harsh and ungenerous kingdom,and that women give themselves only to men of resolute spirit, who provide them with the security they need in order to face life.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#54. As a flower plucked from a tree gradually droops and shrivels, love that avoids the harsh realities of practical life cannot thrive on its own resources.
Rabindranath Tagore
#55. A harsh word breaks the heart. A kind word can sooth the savage beast. A word never spoken can bury a burden or save a relationship.
J. Loren Norris
#56. Sometimes people become mean because of horrible experiences. It's a gradual process that hardens their hearts and minds and forces them to develop a thick skin. In order to survive they must adapt to their harsh surroundings. They in turn become mean.
Astrid Yrigollen
#58. There are things we do automatically, our body, acting on its own, avoids inconvenience whenever possible, that is why we sleep on the eve of battle or execution, and why ultimately we die when we can no longer bear the harsh light of existence.
Jose Saramago
#59. When life happens, you can be either the author of your life or the victim of it. Those are your only two choices - accountable or unaccountable. This may sound harsh, but it's true. Every day we choose one approach or the other, and the consequences follow us forever.
Gary Keller
#60. As I observe my daily life and that of others, I have come to the conclusion that genuine joy is a potent mixture of harsh reality, and the realization that life can be funny.
Tone Bell
#61. Life is less clear to me every day. The world's harsh technicolor swirls jumble before my eyes until I'm dizzy. Amidst sheer chaos, you are my only black and white and nothing is more beautiful to me.
Green And Yellow
#62. Life being full of harsh realities, we seek relief from them in a variety of pleasing delusions.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#63. Life will take its toll on all of us. We get injured, we get old. It's really sad to try to run away from these harsh realities of life. Looks are not everything. I am not going to look beautiful all the time.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
#64. Without enlightenment, everything in life is harsh. Sooner or later you see everyone you love die, unless you die first, of course. This causes you to suffer.
Frederick Lenz
#65. And then what's the whole point if you're harsh to those who love you and soft to those who don't care ...
Sanhita Baruah
#66. Some people will hate you for pursuing what you love. Make sure you don't love them more.
Harsh Snehanshu
#67. If you learned to live in mediocrity, you have never learned to live.
if you still need introduction, you still need to work hard.
If you want a short cut to success, try your WILL POWER.
If you want a successful life, then take chances and make changes
Harsh Malik
#68. He crushes his lips to mine. My face is already wet from tears, but the kiss isn't sweet and romantic. At that moment, it feels like a kiss of life or death. It is carnal and harsh. I will never forget this kiss.
Lauren Helms
#70. No," she answered, wondering at the harsh simplicity of life.
Oscar Wilde
#71. Perfection is a thousand mistakes behind curtains.
Yarro Rai
#72. The reality of boy-girl life gets harsh, but in my fantasy, the music keeps them together.
Rob Sheffield
#73. It was a rough crossing, the one from childhood to the next life. And as with any other harsh journey, not everything survived.
Karen Thompson Walker
#74. Don't be so harsh on yourself because of your bad decisions you've made in the past and don't let them hinder your life progress. Try to forgive yourself and accept it as a learning curve for you and thank God you have managed to turn things .around.
Euginia Herlihy
#75. There was no sense of guilt in her now, but only a desperate desire to defend her secret from irreverent eyes, and begin life again among people to whom the harsh code of the village was unknown.
Edith Wharton
#76. On suicide:
Those are vanities, child. They cause immeasurable suffering in this life and all future lives. Who knows, perhaps you have been given this harsh portion because of misdeeds in some past life.
John Speed
#77. Time is kind
just not kind enough!
Yarro Rai
#78. Life is a gamble, Vane. It's harsh and painful most of the time, and it's not for the timid. Spoils go to the victor, not to the one who doesn't even show up for the battle.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#79. Life is defined by time and seasons. Summer brings sunshine, warm and flowering. Spring brings warmth and blossoms of flowers. Fall brings the falling of leaves and cool days. Winter brings cold dry harsh weather and trees are without leaves.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#80. Sometimes I feel as if there's an explanation to my life that continues to escape me; that I've missed something noble, something sublime; that in some way I have cheated myself...life is so strange, so harsh.
Will Weaver
#81. Voracious reading was like an anesthesia, numbing me to the harsh life around me.
Mark Mathabane
#82. Erik was one of those inadequate people who were so scared by life that they preferred to live under harsh authority, to be told what to do and what to think by a government that allowed no dissent. They were foolish and dangerous, but there were an awful lot of them.
Ken Follett
#83. Life wasn't for the timid. It was harsh and it was biting.
But the one thing that made it bearable was the people you cared for. It was finding that light in the darkness. That peace in hell.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#84. All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it.
Margaret Atwood
#85. Life isn't easy. Would that every story ended happily, every crisis be averted, everything get a pretty shiny bow, but that's not the world we live in. Life is harsh. Things go wrong, People get hurt, and some even die. That's just the way it goes.
Daniel Younger
#86. 'Farscape' is a story about family. It's a story about creating life in a harsh environment. That's what a lot of people relate to in the story.
Ben Browder
#87. We shall none of us ever make love again, she thought, and did not much care. Life had not been too harsh; the sea would still be there at the end. She was nearly ready.
Anita Brookner
#88. Create space in your mind for the harsh memories too. Don't ever cower from a teacher. Learn and live higher because you know how to use those dark memories as stepping-stones to think your way to a higher form of living.
Toni Sorenson
#89. There always seems to be an 'until'. That is one of life's harsh lessons.
Jeff Salyards
#91. Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh.
Martin Bormann
#92. The first year holds trauma unlike any other. The second year is a time of learning hard lessons, facing harsh realities, understanding that you, alone, are responsible for the life change you must accept, the new life you must develop.
Shirley Reeser Mcnally
#93. Life is funny, at the same time being totally harsh.
Isabel Gillies
#94. The vast majority of the people who populate our planet live lives of quiet desperation that are all too often quite harsh and painful, lives in which events and circumstances usually don't turn out the way they had hoped or planned.
Frederick Lenz
#95. And what's wrong with dimming the harsh reality of life a little, anyway? In essence, being alive is a bloody long and hard walk to death. Why not make it as pleasant along the way as you can?
Lucinda Riley
#96. To one visitor Alexandrian life was just one continuous revel, not a sweet or gentle revel either, but savage and harsh, a revel of dancers, whistlers, and murderers all combined.
Stacy Schiff
#97. Life was harsh and people were worthless and mean to their bitter cores. They only used and betrayed. That was the only code she believed in. Trisa.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#98. You can choose daily to brace up and face the harsh realities of life . . .
Or while away the days that come by daydreaming . . .
Better still, you can make your dreams your realities.
Ufuoma Apoki
#99. It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.
Emile Durkheim
#100. There's only so many times you can fight before the only person you fight for is yourself.
S.R. Crawford
