Top 100 Very Difficult Life Quotes
#2. My dad had a very difficult life, a hard struggle all the time at work. I've always felt like I'm seeking his revenge.
Bruce Springsteen
#3. I've had a very difficult life. Fortunately, most of it didn't happen.
Mark Twain
#4. We all have to start with ourselves. It is time to walk the talk. Take the journey of making very difficult decisions. Start removing things from your life that are not filling your cup and adding things that bring joy in to your life.
Lisa Hammond
#5. Truth and life are very difficult to fathom, and I retained of them, without really having got to know them, an impression in which sadness was perhaps actually eclipsed by exhaustion.
Marcel Proust
#6. We all are faced by problems of 'How am I going to get the rent?' or 'Am I going to have this job six months from now?' It's very difficult to define in your life a victory.
Michael A. Stackpole
#7. Very few old folk are happy, Irina. Most of them are poor, aren't healthy, and have no family. It's the most fragile and difficult stage of life, more so than childhood, because it grows worse day by day, and there is no future other than death.
Isabel Allende
#8. Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in adult life.
Herbert Read
#9. Song-writing is therapy for me. I'm a very moody person, very difficult to live with. There's a lot going on and a lot of contradictions. My life is always one step away from disaster.
Gary Numan
#10. It's very difficult to tell someone how to protect themselves from a terrorist attack, whether it occurs in the U.S. or on foreign soil, particularly when you have terrorists with no concern for human life.
Saxby Chambliss
#11. It's a shock for me to go through and see all those years of painting my life, which is very personal for me. It's a very difficult thing for an artist to look back at his work.
Andrew Wyeth
#12. I think it's difficult, if you're a quite private person like I am, to write about your life very intimately.
Jo Brand
#13. It is possible for us to live in the very sense of the Lord's presence, under even the most difficult circumstances. If you and I are going to enjoy the peace of paradise during this life we must become accustomed to a familiar, humble, and very affectionate conversation with the Lord Jesus.
Brother Lawrence
#14. Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.
Bebe Neuwirth
#15. Men? One never knows where to find them. The wind blows them away. They have no roots, and that makes their life very difficult.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#16. As long as you don't think he's just pretending not to mind for your sake, it sounds like he has truly accepted that blow jobs are too difficult and painful for you to perform, and he's still very satisfied with your sex life. Take him at his word.
Mallory Ortberg
#17. But very little of it can do more
than start you on your way to the real, unimaginably
difficult goal of writing memorably. That work is done
slowly and in solitude, and it is as improbable as carrying
water in a sieve.
Mary Oliver
#18. Making a film is so hard that if you don't have your main actors going along with the ride with the rest of the crew it can make your life very difficult.
Alan Parker
#19. I would not call it a difficult life, really. I just had a lot of challenges at a very young age.
Ger Duany
#20. Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
Dallas Willard
#21. As the CEO running my life, running Meghan Trainor, I have to say 'no' to things all the time, and it's been very uncomfortable and very difficult. I've said 'no' and it's actually worked - even when I never thought it would work.
Meghan Trainor
#22. Life is so very difficult. How can we be anything but kind.
Gautama Buddha
#23. Do you recall, from your childhood on, how very much this life of yours has longed for greatness? I see it now, how from the vantage point of greatness it longs for even greater greatness. That is why it does not let up being difficult, but that is also why it will not cease to grow.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#24. It is difficult to remember just how formal middle-class life was in the 1930's and '40s. I wore a suit and tie at home from the age of 18. One dressed for breakfast. One lived in a very formal way, and emotions were not paraded. And my childhood was not unusual.
J.G. Ballard
#25. I am far more interested in being a beginner than in trying to become an expert. Life is difficult and complicated for everyone - but it's very, very short.
Alastair Humphreys
#26. It is difficult to feel things very strongly in a world wherein most of the time, the majority seem to be intoxicated and often senseless.
C. JoyBell C.
#27. All of my life, when things got too difficult, I folded up the tent and went to bed. I couldn't stand a challenge ... I was terrified of confrontation. I was very laid-back, and just wouldn't get involved or fight back.
Phoebe Snow
#28. No matter what you have gone through in your youth,
it is about who you choose to be in life.
You can define your own destiny.
You can be stronger than a very difficult past
and overcome it.
Angelina Jolie
#29. I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.
FKA Twigs
#30. My early colleagues and myself helped create the life styles of Americans and, by osmosis, of the rest of the world. I found it difficult to reconcile success with humility. I tried it first, but it meant avoiding the very essence of my career - total exhilaration and the ecstasy of creativity.
Raymond Loewy
#31. Know what you want and try to go beyond your own expectations....set a very high goal, one that will be difficult to achieve. Because that is an artist's mission: to go beyond one's limits. An artist who desires very little and achieves it has failed in life.
Paulo Coelho
#32. There are things in my life that are hard to reconcile, like divorce. Sometimes it is very difficult to make sense of how it could possibly happen. Laying blame is so easy. I don't have time for hate or negativity in my life. There's no room for it.
Reese Witherspoon
#33. Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
E. M. Forster
#34. Perhaps when we shrink down to almost nothing, we will at last find one another. Life is, after all, very difficult. Most of us die here simply because we forget to breathe.
Paul Auster
#35. I have a very happy marriage and friends who keep my feet on the ground. But looking for satisfaction in life is difficult. Maybe being happy is as simple as not being unhappy.
Jasper Carrott
#36. I love watching Billy Bob, just as a punter anyway. I like his work. But working with him is really easy and really straight-forward. He's immediately good. He doesn't have to work up to it. He doesn't make your life difficult. He listens. He's a very good listener, in terms of his acting.
Martin Freeman
#37. It is very difficult to make really big,
important, life-changing decisions because we are all susceptible
to a formidable array of decision biases. There are more of them
than we realize, and they come to visit us more often than we
like to admit.
Dan Ariely
#38. Certainly it's very difficult to keep momentum going through a film which has as many characters as this does, and the piece took on a life of its own to try and shape it. That took all the time we had in editing.
John Crowley
#39. For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work.
James C. Collins
#40. As long as we're preoccupied with our former traumas and triumphs, or our fears and dreams about what might happen down the road, or who said what to whom, it's very difficult to appreciate and cherish the intrinsically joyful gift of life right here and now.
Lama Surya Das
#41. The ideas behind the words are simple ones that work in everyday life; find what we most want to do; do it, no matter what; and in the doing be guaranteed a very difficult and a very happy lifetime.
Richard Bach
#42. It's very difficult to look at the World
and into your heart at the same time.
In between, a life has passed.
Jim Harrison
#43. Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.
Sting
#44. Nobody can be happy. You could have moments of happiness, moments of joy. But life is very difficult. Unless you're a total idiot. Then you can be happy.
Irvin Kershner
#45. If we are established in a ministry it will be very difficult for the devil to uproot us
Sunday Adelaja
#46. The reason people think I look good now is because I was never a beauty as a wee girl. And thank heavens. It's frightening to get old anyway, but if your looks were the cornerstone of your life, well, it would be very difficult.
Lulu
#47. If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarization and the barbarism of dictatorships - that made me feel that we had to change this country.
George Papandreou
#48. She'd found socializing with the school mums difficult enough when her life was in perfect order. The chat, chat, chat, the swirls of laughter, the warmth, the friendliness (most mums were so very nice) and the gentle hint of bitchiness that ran beneath it all.
Liane Moriarty
#49. We live in a time where the media is a very difficult thing to navigate because it's everywhere, and I tend to want to be a lot more private with my life.
Emily VanCamp
#50. Learning to take hold of one's life is very difficult in a culture that values property over life.
Haki R. Madhubuti
#51. The part you don't expect when you start out is all the people who come into your life wanting a piece of you, not caring about your wellbeing. The insane schedule is very difficult. Touring looks very glamourous but it's hard and gruelling - the travelling, the meet-and-greets - it was too crazy.
Cheryl James
#52. Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.
Carl Jung
#53. He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realize God in this very life.
Ramakrishna
#54. I've spent most of my life embracing violence in wars and revolutions. Even a famine is a form of violence. Because I photograph people in peril, people in pain, people being executed in front of me, I find it very difficult to get my head around the art narrative of photography.
Don McCullin
#55. I think it would be very difficult to maintain one kind of art or whatever for your whole life. I think it's unrealistic.
Sia Furler
#56. As in any person's life, there have been difficult moments: I have a son with Down's syndrome; through my photography, I have witnessed all manner of human degradation. But there have also been very happy moments.
Sebastiao Salgado
#57. It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
Anton Chekhov
#58. I think when war becomes your life, I think it's very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.
Michael Hastings
#59. I've been through some very difficult stages in my life, but I wouldn't change anything.
Greta Scacchi
#60. People who have strong likes and dislikes find life very difficult; they are as rigid as if they had only one bone.
Eknath Easwaran
#61. To justify one's actions is easy. Acting responsibly and being accountable for actions is very difficult.
Shubha Vilas
#62. You know, I've sung a lot of emotional songs in my life, but when you're writing it yourself, it's very difficult to decide what to reveal.
Diana Krall
#63. It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard!
Derek Jacobi
#64. Telling the world is the most difficult experience of my life, but it is very close to having to live through the experience that occasion this meeting.
Anita Hill
#65. I was directed because I knew I wanted to be a novelist, but I didn't have a very good job or a way of getting published. I found those years to be among the most difficult of my life.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#66. Individuals somehow are led to find my books at times that are important to them. The mail that I get very, very often will say, "I was at a difficult time in my life, and someone gave me a copy."
Richard Bach
#67. In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life.
PJ Harvey
#68. It is very easy to fall in the ocean of love and feel great,
but it's difficult to get out of the river of love and forget.
Debasish Mridha
#69. It is very difficult to make the ideas in my head come to life, but what is harder is making them look effortless.
Tim Walker
#70. Contemplate life as infinite, undivided, ever present, ever active, until you realize yourself as one with it. It is not even very difficult, for you will be returning only to your own natural condition.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#71. At 12 years old in the dangerous world that I was in, with a very difficult home life, I found the stage was the safest place to be. It was predetermined and predictable - and furthermore you got to be someone else. All the problems only began when you left the building.
Patrick Stewart
#72. You know, making fun of the excessiveness and the priorities that are most stilted out here which does make it difficult to have a very sort of grounded, normal life because there's really nothing normal about Hollywood.
Debra Messing
#73. Life as an astronaut in space is a very interesting one. There are things we all take for granted here on earth, like gravity, that can make things a bit challenging. One of the fun things about getting here is the zero gravity and floating around. But it also makes things very difficult.
Kevin A. Ford
#74. Now I come to 75 years of age, I think what's most important in life is your conscience. If you told a lie and made other people suffer, I think that's very difficult when you reach this age.
Mstislav Rostropovich
#75. One very difficult aspect of sin is that my sin never feels like sin to me. My sin feels like life to me, plain and simple. My heart is an idol factory, and my mind is an excuse-making factory.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#76. I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get ... at least in real life, I really don't get recognized. I think people seem to find it very difficult to connect me to characters I've played.
Freddie Stroma
#77. It's not only just difficult but very complicated to loose someone very close to you, the person goes away but the void remains to kill the living until they learnt to let go.
Viraj J. Mahajan
#78. You are different, Bee. It will make some parts of your life very difficult. But if you always fall back on your differences to explain everything you dislike about the world, you will fall into self-pity."
p. 293 Fitz to Bee
Robin Hobb
#79. When you consider it from a human perspective, and clearly it would be difficult for us to do otherwise, life is an odd thing. It couldn't wait to get going, but then, having gotten going, it seemed in very little hurry to move on.
Bill Bryson
#80. It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero of a peculiar, half-ruined film called our life.
Sebastian Barry
#81. Don't complain because it is very difficult to be successful but rather be happy because there are many opportunities to be a success.
Debasish Mridha
#82. Most often our perception about life is difficult but life itself is very simple.
Debasish Mridha
#83. All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?
Hermann Hesse
#84. Marriage is a very difficult relationship for nearly everyone and I'm sure you shouldn't do it if you want a quiet little easy life.
Fay Weldon
#85. The reason why I hate working in theatre is the tedium of memorisation. But once that is done, then you feast on this never-ending meal. If you play it correctly, every night is fraught with very high stakes that are very difficult to find in everyday life.
Christopher Meloni
#86. He saw that all the conditions of life had conspired to keep them apart; since his very detachment from the external influences which swayed her had increased his spiritual fastidiousness, and made it more difficult for him to live and love uncritically.
Edith Wharton
#87. It's a noisy environment we all live in, whether it's traffic or the workplace, so it's very difficult to think about your life in general. A lot of people are afraid to do that. They like to hide behind their work and not face up to a big problem in their life.
Enya
#88. The most difficult thing about my job is that I do a lot of 19-hour days. It's really difficult to have a life, never mind a relationship. I don't have any regrets, really. I'm quite content. I'm very stubborn and persistent. I just keep working.
Kim Cattrall
#89. Always have passion on what you do for your entire life. This would characteristic would help you to overcome very difficult situations.
Saaif Alam
#90. I wouldn't date an actress. There's only room for one actor in my life and I'm it. Too difficult. On the one hand, they understand the job. But on the other hand, it's very competitive within the relationship. Two actors, say one becomes a mega-star and the other doesn't.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
#91. To me, the highest expression of life is art with jokes. It's very rarified, very difficult to accomplish if you want to be more than just funny and more than just jokes about human gaseousness.
Neil Peart
#92. The more partners I had, the more I realized Gregory and I were the best pair I'd ever come across. But in my pursuit of answers to all the difficult questions in my life, I missed out on the obvious ones right in front of my very eyes.
Cecelia Ahern
#93. I had a very wise person tell me that he thinks marriage, when you're younger, you keep thinking you can fix things. That's what people do. And you can't really fix anything. It shouldn't be a massive difficult thing every day. Life's difficult enough.
Albert Brooks
#94. The journey to the realisation of your dreams is difficult; you will have to climb the mountains of despair, brave the storms of self doubt, be resolute in the winds of ridicule but the in the very end you will get a kind of self satisfaction that no one can take away from you
Rassool Jibraeerl Snyman
#95. How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.
Elizabeth Lesser
#96. Life is very difficult. There's nothing to be ashamed of by reading self-help books. If you're stuck in a dark place it can be incredibly uplifting and hope providing to engage with those tools. So go out there and do it!!
Jim Dooley
#97. It is very easy to create fear but very difficult to instill confidence.
Balan Gothandaraman
#98. It was getting very difficult for me to keep from being excited in other places. Watching Abby own my brothers - and a poker veteran like my father - hand after hand was turning me on. I'd never seen a women so sexy in my life, and this one happened to be my girlfriend.
Jamie McGuire
#99. I never enjoyed life in my twenties, not one minute of it. It was a test of endurance that I'm surprised I survived. Professionally, of course, I was doing very well but personally it couldn't have been worse or more difficult for me if I'd been living in a mud hut in Leeds.
Steven Morrissey
#100. People always want to know how you know. And knowing in your heart is very hard to describe. I think so often, we're trying to understand something with our mind. But, actually, the Bible teaches us that much of what God does in our life will be difficult to understand with the mind.
Joyce Meyer
