Difficult Quotes
6176 quotes by 3909 authors
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Far overhead from beyond the veil of blue sky which hid them the stars sang again; a pure, cold, difficult music. Then there came a…
— C.S. Lewis
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Ù°"The Most difficult thing but an essential one – is to love Life, to love it even while one suffers, because Life is all, Life…
— Leo Tolstoy
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If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must hold to the difficult, then that which now still…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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I returned to the courtyard and saw that the sun had grown weaker. Beautiful and clear as it had been, the morning (as the day…
— Umberto Eco
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It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy…
— George Eliot
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Your breathing should flow gracefully, like a river, like a watersnake crossing the water, and not like a chain of rugged mountains or the gallop…
— Nhat Hanh
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I cannot feel like a duchess in my mother’s sitting room.†“What do you feel like, then?†“Hmmm.†She took a sip of her tea.…
— Julia Quinn
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I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult.
— Thomas Pynchon
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The more the state "plans" the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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The sky is so close to the sea that it is difficult to tell which is reflected in the other, which one needs the other,…
— Elie Wiesel
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And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to take off your hat first!
— Susan Kay
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Most Americans are close to total ignorance about the world. They are ignorant. That is an unhealthy condition in a country in which foreign policy…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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And did you have to hack his arms off?†“Yes, I did. He wouldn’t go through the door.†“You say it like you’re proud of…
— Ilona Andrews
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I also believe that when people are going through difficult situations in life... it causes them to search a lot more. They search life and…
— Cecelia Ahern
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Miss Tarabotti was not certain if he was objecting to the kick or the scream, so she issued both again— with interest. He seemed to…
— Gail Carriger
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That woman is the most difficult, the most stubborn redhead I've ever had the displeasure of meeting." He shot off, leaving only a blurry streak…
— C.C. Hunter
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Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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Trust is a fragile thing - difficult to build, easy to break. It cannot be bargained for. Only if it is freely given it can…
— Peter Lerangis
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I suppose it’s easier to see the way out of anything when you’ve found your way out of that maze. When you’re stuck in the…
— Cecelia Ahern
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