Difficult Quotes
6176 quotes by 3909 authors
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So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You shall not be…
— Victor Hugo
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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the…
— Pat Conroy
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Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else, made difficult-to-come-by, whatever…
— Adrienne Rich
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People are always worried about what's happening next. They often find it difficult to stand still, to occupy the now without worrying about the future.…
— Garth Stein
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It was, I remembered thinking, the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make. In every way, a walk to remember.
— Nicholas Sparks
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Life's only choosing when to die. Life's a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It's a tremendous relief not to have to choose.
— Anthony Burgess
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In life we often look to others for simple, but difficult answers, despite the fact that we have those answers ourselves.
— James Frey
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My life has been like all the lives, long and hard and full of sadness and confusion and horror, a frightening, difficult dream punctuated by…
— James Frey
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To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.
— Agatha Christie
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It can be... difficult to to learn how the world truly is, to see it in its true shape and form... most human beings never…
— Cassandra Clare
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The capacity for love that makes dogs such rewarding companions has a flip-side: They find it difficult to cope without us. Since we humans programmed…
— John Bradshaw
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Life was a short window and there was no sense in doing the wrong thing over and over even if it was so difficult to…
— Anna Godbersen
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God does not always call us to go back physically to a place we have been. But if for example we have a difficult time…
— Joyce Meyer
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Yes and I appreciate it. But this is going to be difficult enough without running my words through a filter of illiteracy.
— Kevin Hearne
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And while it is hard enough to take away something that makes a person happy it's even more difficult when it seems like it's the…
— Sarah Dessen
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It is difficult to find anything more healthy to drink than good cold water, such as flows down to us from springs and snows of…
— Brigham Young
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If you are facing a difficult task don’t put it off. If you do it will just keep tormenting you.
— Joyce Meyer
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It's easier to crush a dream than realize one, forming a bond is infinitely more difficult than breaking one
— Ryohgo Narita
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Reading is difficult. People just aren't meant to read anymore. We're in a post-literate age. You know, a visual age. How many years after the…
— Gary Shteyngart
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It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the…
— Arnold Bennett
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