Difficult Quotes

6176 Difficult quotes by 3909 unique authors

It is difficult to hate an idea. That requires a certain intellectual discipline and a slightly obsessive, sick mind. There aren’t too many of those.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted. — Soren Kierkegaard
When writing goes painfully, when it’s hideously difficult, and one feels real despair (ah, the despair, silly as it is, is real!)–then naturally one ought… — Joyce Carol Oates
The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me. — Donald Miller
Those who take lightly promises they make to those they love are people who find little lasting satisfaction in life. This is not an easy… — Brandon Sanderson
You're a very difficult person to manipulate, you know." "Nonsense," he said. "You just have to promise me that I won't have to do a… — Brandon Sanderson
If Jesus gives us a task or assigns us to a difficult season, every ounce of our experience is meant for our instruction and completion… — Beth Moore
It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth. — E. M. Forster
Hatred is like a long, dark shadow. Not even the person it falls upon knows where it comes from, in most cases. It is like… — Haruki Murakami
When you find out there is no ultimate good and evil in which you can place your faith, the world does not fall apart at… — Anne Rice
as the physicians say it happens in hectic fever, that in the beginning of the malady it is easy to cure but difficult to detect,… — Niccolo Machiavelli
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… — James C. Collins
I’m in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana it is love. And it’s difficult… — John Steinbeck
As I became a creature of the empty tunnels, survival became easier and more difficult all at once. I gained in the physical skills and… — R A Salvatore
Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on borrowed time. Every day that dawns… — Henri Matisse
When you are young so many things are difficult to believe, and yet the dullest people will tell you that they are true--such things, for… — E. Nesbit
Grace cannot be confused with righteousness. Grace is receiving what we do not deserve; mercy is not receiving what we do deserve. Righteousness, on the… — Francis Frangipane
Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned… — Homer
The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing. — Kate DiCamillo
Though life is very glorious, it is difficult. — E. M. Forster
I am of the opinion, and even more so the older I get, that it is more difficult to have hope than it is to… — Colum McCann
It's very difficult to stay angry when a room full of bald guys in orange robes start giggling. Buddhism. — Christopher Moore
The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person... — Czeslaw Milosz
Of all things we mortals are called upon to do, the most difficult is forgiveness; in order to truly do it, you will probably have… — Marion Zimmer Bradley

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