Difficult Quotes

6176 Difficult quotes by 3909 unique authors

Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of… — Iris Murdoch
In that Macondo forgotten even by the birds, where the dust and the heat had become so strong that it was difficult to breathe, secluded… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
You are obvious, boy. You are difficult to miss. If you came to me in company with a purple lion, a green elephant, and a… — Neil Gaiman
To write simply is as difficult as to be good. — W. Somerset Maugham
It is difficult to realize the true Way just through sword-fencing. Know the smallest things and the biggest things, the shallowest things and the deepest… — Miyamoto Musashi
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch? — A A Milne
The top two movies at the box office this weekend were 'High School Musical 3' and 'Saw V.' One movie features gruesome onscreen torture that… — Conan O'Brien
When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that they… — W. Somerset Maugham
Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Elodin proved a difficult man to find. He had an office in Hollows, but never seemed to use it. When I visited Ledgers and Lists,… — Patrick Rothfuss
There's a lot about discovering who you are and how difficult that is. And it never stops. — Libba Bray
It is always what I have already said: always the wish that you may find patience enough in yourself to endure, and simplicity enough to… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Even if I seemed to remember, I could not know. For just to remember something is not to know if it really happened. That is… — Joyce Carol Oates
I'm not sure if I know any 'functional' families, if functional means a family without difficult times and members who don't have a full range… — David Sheff
It is often said that reading is a gift, but to my mind that is an insufficient description, for the size of the gift of… — Daniel Handler
The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in… — Henry David Thoreau
Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the… — Alan Watts
The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like… — Loren Eiseley
Sleep is still difficult I sleep for three or four hours a day. Usually sometime in the afternoon. I walk in the cold, keep myself… — James Frey
That's what I like to call him, "the current president." I find it difficult to say or type his name, George W. Bush. I like… — Sarah Vowell
The book was long, and difficult to read, and Klaus became more and more tired as the night wore on. Occasionally his eyes would close.… — Daniel Handler
Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task,… — Helen Keller
Every human being has appetites difficult to control but far fewer have humility, gentleness, and an awareness of their weaknesses. — Dean Koontz
When you go through difficult times, make sure you pass the test. Don’t be stubborn and hardheaded. Recognize that God is refining you, knocking off… — Joel Osteen

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