Quotes About Troubles

#1. I don't try to make sense of suffering. I try to make sense of life...I try each day to see God's will...I console myself with the old Negro spiritual, 'Sooner will be done the troubles of this world. I'm going home to live with God.

Thea Bowman

#2. It is easier to bear the worries of wandering than to find peace in your hometown, where only the sage can live in a happy house surrounded by trite troubles and daily distractions.

Hermann Hesse

#3. Getting out of bed is a good way to leave your troubles behind.

Nancy E. Turner

#4. What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?

Louisa May Alcott

#5. Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core of the phenomenon. Decaying cities, declining economies, and mounting social troubles travel together. The combination is not coincidental.

Jane Jacobs

#6. My mother used to tell me, "Things always look worse at night." For the most part, I believe her. But some of the troubles that keep me from sleeping look just as bad in the morning.

Carolyn Custis James

#7. Two parts of me have been at war. Your... odd family, your financial troubles- your in a different world from me. people expect me to travel in certain circles. And I do respect the wishes of my family, but not today. I've tried to fight it for months now, but Lizzie Bennet... I'm in love with you.

Bernie Su

#8. The only benefit a woman can have in talking too much is defeating a man who troubles her too much.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#9. I am the only one of us who brings in any money. the other two cannot make money fortune telling. this is because they only tell the truth, and the truth is not what people want to hear. it is a bad thing and it troubles people, so they do not come back.

Neil Gaiman

#10. Learn the alchemy true human beings know. The moment you accept what troubles you've been given the door with open.

Rumi

#11. Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident of myself and my capabilities.

Christine Lahti

#12. God is God; He sees and hears All our troubles, all our tears. Soul, forget not, 'mid thy pains, God o'er all for ever reigns.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#13. The parents' job is to be there for their kids, not the other way round. Troubles between parents need to be talked through with friends and not visited on the children.

Susie Orbach

#14. I am often very lonely up on this hill by myself, and when Mr. Poe wrote to me about your troubles I didn't want you to be as lonely as I was when I lost my dear Ike.

Lemony Snicket

#15. You may think you find peace in Christ when you have no outward troubles, but is Christ your peace when the Assyrian comes into the land, when the enemy comes? ... Jesus Christ would be peace to the soul when the enemy comes into the city, and into your houses.

Jeremiah Burroughs

#16. The stronghold of the contemplation of Christ's glory affords the soul rest, for it will be made evident that our troubles grow on the root of an over-valuation of temporal things. The mind is its own greatest troubler.

John Owen

#17. Overpowered by the sadness of not knowing what there is in the world, and what I'm doing. Feeling completely indifferent to good and evil too, to beauty or anything else. I know that this is the root of all human troubles, all of them. Indifferent to that knowledge, too. Nothing got written.

Jack Kerouac

#18. I am grateful for all those people who said no. It is because of them that I did it myself. Practice an attitude of gratitude. You can either be miserable dwelling on the troubles you have or grateful for the ones you don't have. Your troubles don't care but it makes a huge difference in your life.

Michael Josephson

#19. I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.

Jimmy Carter

#20. Obstacles are maps inside out.
Troubles are opportunities inside out.
Failures are lessons inside out.
Burdens are blessings inside out.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#21. I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#22. Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#23. When trouble ends even troubles please.

Sophocles

#24. Great is a person that can laugh at their troubles ... for they have found an avenue to help them rise above their despair.

Timothy Pina

#25. Your troubles will always bve my troubles,so long as were married.

Christopher Paolini

#26. Men like to to count their troubles; few calculate their happiness.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#27. It is not what people do when they work, but what they do when they don't work that causes all their troubles.

William J.H. Boetcker

#28. Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted. 17 The troubles of my heart are enlarged; bring me out of my distresses. 18 n Consider my affliction and my trouble, and forgive all my sins.

Anonymous

#29. Prostitution happens to you because of troubles you had. In reality no woman would choose to do that.

Catherine Deneuve

#30. It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.

Joyce Maynard

#31. You have need to pray to God, not only to help you in your troubles
but to help you in your blessings

Charles Spurgeon

#32. A general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles ... it takes your mind off the cost of living.

Brendan Behan

#33. Turning oneself to the misfortunes of others is the best way to dispense with personal troubles. Hadn't Lord Byron himself said, "The busy have no time for tears"?

Martha Hall Kelly

#34. Every stage of life has its troubles, and no man is content with his own age.

Decimius Magnus Ausonius

#35. With that discouraging explanation many felt that they had been the victims of some new and showy gypsy business and they decided not to return to the movies, considering that they already had too many troubles of their own to weep over the acted-out misfortunes of imaginary beings.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#36. Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.

Francis Bacon

#37. I think that every one , no matter how many troubles the may have when he grows up, ought to have a happy childhood to look back upon. And if I ever have any children of my own, no matter how unhappy I may be, I am not going to let them have any cares until they grow up.

Jean Webster

#38. When troubles come may prayer be your automatic response.

Billy Graham

#39. The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.

Anthony Trollope

#40. One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about.

Bertrand Russell

#41. It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world.

Eric Hoffer

#42. I think a lot of people are projecting their own troubles and fears concerning sexuality onto those around them, and it does result in the perpetuation of a lot of hateful notions. As long as I can remember, I've felt really horrified watching those dynamics play out.

Ezra Miller

#43. A drop of anger can lead to an ocean of troubles.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#44. All our troubles, says somebody wise, come upon us because we cannot be alone.

D.H. Lawrence

#45. Compassion only plagues those with hearts, much like a field of thorns only troubles those who bleed.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#46. The horse on the treadmill may be very discontented, but he is not disposed to tell his troubles, for he cannot stop to talk.

Nellie L. McClung

#47. Our burdens are here, our road is before us, and the longing for goodness and happiness is the guide that leads us through many troubles and mistakes to the peace which is a true Celestial City.

Louisa May Alcott

#48. He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

#49. Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.

Michel De Montaigne

#50. When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

Francis Bacon

#51. No one cares about the artist Kafka, who troubles us with his puzzling aesthetic, because we'd rather have Kafka as the fusion of experience and work, the Kafka who had a difficult relationship with his father and didn't know how to deal with women.

Milan Kundera

#52. If we continue to think of ourselves mostly as consumers, it's going to be very hard to bring our environmental troubles under control. But it's also going to be very hard to live the rounded and joyful lives that could be ours. This is a subversive volume in all the best ways!

Bill McKibben

#53. I've become a kissing addict. I think that's it. The buzzy feeling. Burning lips. The foggy eyes. Maybe i could kiss every good-looking guy here at school. Maybe even the good-looking male teachers. The thought warms me and troubles me at the same time.

Carol Lynch Williams

#54. More are weakened than strengthened by their troubles.

Mason Cooley

#55. I should kill you," Kallan whispered, "and watch your blood run with the cries of my people. If I kill you, all my troubles end. And I go home to Lorlenalin, my father's death avenged.

Angela B. Chrysler

#56. The truly happy people are those who have a source of happiness too deep to be seriously disturbed by ordinary troubles.

Marion K. Rich

#57. Those who shake the State are easily the first to be engulfed in its destruction. The fruits of dissension are not gathered by the one who began it: he stirs and troubles the waters for other men to fish in.

Michel De Montaigne

#58. Night brings our troubles to the light rather than banishes them.

Seneca.

#59. With Snorri troubles were always put front and centre and dealt with. My style was more to shove them under the rug until the floor got too uneven to navigate, and then to move house.

Mark Lawrence

#60. Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knees, a noise in my ear, a light in my eye, an anything, a nothing, a fancy, a chimera in my brain, troubles me in my prayers.

John Donne

#61. They who will live for others shall have great troubles, but they shall seem to them small. Those who will live for themselves shall have small troubles, but they shall seem to them great.

William Ralph Inge

#62. You must learn to make your evils your great good; and to spin comforts, peace, joy, communion with Christ, out of your troubles, which are Christ's wooers, sent to speak for you from Himself.

Samuel Rutherford

#63. Then up he got with a light heart, free from all his troubles, and walked on till he reached his mother's house, and told her how very easy the road to good luck was.

Jacob Grimm

#64. A crown Golden in show, is but a wreath of thorns, Bring dangers, troubles, cares, and sleepless nights To him who wears the regal diadem

John Milton

#65. Though troubles assail And dangers affright, Though friends should all fail And foes all unite; Yet one thing secures us, Whatever betide, The scripture assures us, The Lord will provide.

John Newton

#66. Most of one's troubles in this world come from something inside one's self.

Eddie Rickenbacker

#67. Human shapes, interferences, troubles, and joys were all as if they were not, and there seemed to be on the shaded hemisphere of the globe no sentient being save himself; he could fancy them all gone round to the sunny side.

Thomas Hardy

#68. The issue of finding the best possible answer or achieving maximum efficiency usually arises in industry only after serious performance or legal troubles.

Steven S. Skiena

#69. Weed out worry, guilt, hate and fear from your life. Live in the present moment earnestly and wisely, without mourning about the past or anticipating troubles in the future.

Sanchita Pandey

#70. If the criminal will not keep his gains for ever and his victim will not always suffer want, surely man passes like a shadow and troubles himself in vain.

Mark The Evangelist

#71. When white and black and brown and every other color decide they're going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles.

Barry Goldwater

#72. The bottom of the soul may be in repose, even while we are in many outward troubles; just as the bottom of the sea is calm, while the surface is strongly agitated.

John Wesley

#73. Any system of morals which has a theological basis becomes one of the tools by which the holders of power preserve their authority and impair the intellectual vigor of the young. ("Can Religion Cure Our Troubles?" [1954], Y 196)

S.T. Joshi

#74. I had the belief that many troubles you could observe on the European continent were due to politicians not understanding economic phenomena. Even if they had good intentions, they didn't have the skills to solve problems.

Leonid Hurwicz

#75. I don't see (subprime mortgage market troubles) imposing a serious problem. I think it's going to be largely contained.

Henry Paulson

#76. I had no children and shall have none. There are moments when this troubles me, when I reflect that with me a line will end which has lasted since the beginning of humanity.

Henri Barbusse

#77. The troubles came and I saved what I could save. A thread of light, a particle, a wave.

Leonard Cohen

#78. What is my message? That is what troubles me. I have not got a message.

William Thomas Stead

#79. We see our troubles through the filter of our own imperfection ...

Roland Merullo

#80. Do not dump your woes upon people - keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.

Elbert Hubbard

#81. At the temple the dust of distraction seems to settle out, the fog and the haze seem to lift, and we can 'see' things that we were not able to see before and find a way through our troubles that we had not previously known.

Boyd K. Packer

#82. My troubles are over, and I am finally home.

Anna Sewell

#83. The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination. If we had no troubles but real troubles, we should not have a tenth part of our present sorrows. We feel a thousand deaths in fearing one, but the (the Christian) cured of the disease of fearing.

Charles Spurgeon

#84. Gradually I slid into the persuasion that these troubles of mine touching the scrivener, had been all predestinated from eternity, and Bartleby was billeted upon me for some mysterious purpose of an all-wise Providence, which it was not for a mere mortal like me to fathom.

Herman Melville

#85. That was the danger of nostalgia, Drizzt realized. One often remembered the good of the past while forgetting the troubles.

R.A. Salvatore

#86. 21 May integrity and honesty protect me, for I put my hope in you. 22 O God, ransom Israel from all its troubles.

Anonymous

#87. That was how troubles arrived, mourners rushing the bar at a wake. Though they came in funereal flocks, they could be dismissed only one at a time, and that was how she would have to proceed.

Michael Chabon

#88. Jesus did not promise us a life free from trouble. He is called the God of all comfort - and if there were no troubles, He would not need to be called by this name. Jesus does not promise freedom from all problems, but He does promise that we will never face situations alone.

Jonathan Falwell

#89. Sometimes there were troubles but no one can be a hero without the heart being torn open.

David Paul Kirkpatrick

#90. Courage for the big troubles in life, lad' he'd say, 'and patience for the small. Be of good cheer. God is awake.

Louisa Young

#91. We must not be concerned only with that which troubles us, but with all that troubles God.

John Owen

#92. I'm not so sure reading Scripture will keep us from having to face trouble as much as it will focus our attention on our Help in those times. The Bible's full of stories about good folks with troubles. Good folks. God-fearin' folks.

Mona Hodgson

#93. And again, damn. Of troubles I considered myself amply possessed. But those who do seem to get. Some spiritual form of compound interest, I suppose.

Roger Zelazny

#94. Don't ever let your troubles in life break you. No matter how hard it gets, overcome it. Remember ... life goes on

Timothy Pina

#95. Leaders face battles. They don't run away from troubles.

Israelmore Ayivor

#96. Troubles may ofttimes be so dire that they cannot get better. But they are never so dire that they still cannot get worse.

Sharon Kay Penman

#97. I that in heill wes and gladnes Am trublit now with gret seiknes And feblit with infermite: Timor Mortis conturbat me.* * Fear of Death troubles me.

William Dunbar

#98. We still are pestered by two parties: the aristocratic, which is panting for a counter revolution, and the factious, which aims at the division of the empire and destruction of the authority - and perhaps of the lives - of the reigning branch, both of which parties are fomenting troubles.

Marquis De Lafayette

#99. I must bear it well as I may. As my sainted mother used to say, we never come to the kingdom of Heaven but by troubles.

Alison Weir

#100. Everybody's got their troubles.

Dorothy Parker