Difficult Quotes

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It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement. — Abraham Maslow
Much of her life had been lived like a balancing act on a spearpoint fence, and on a particularly difficult night when she was twelve,… — Dean Koontz
I said, "I don't think I can give you that kind of emotion." And he [Hitchcock] sat there and said, "Ingrid, fake it!" Well, that… — Ingrid Bergman
It is very difficult also to sacrifice one's suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering. — G I Gurdjieff
I know one thing for certain; it is much harder to tell whether you are lost than whether you were lost, for, on many occasions,… — Norton Juster
It's hard to get along with people. As much as you try to like them and accept them as individuals, it becomes difficult because they… — Henry Rollins
Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
If it wasn't painfully difficult, you did it wrong! — Dan Brown
This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher"(when asked about completing his income tax form) — Albert Einstein
I have found it is surprisingly difficult to remain sad when a cat is doing its level best to sandpaper one's cheeks. — R.L. LaFevers
The challenges in this place are real and sometimes very difficult, but I've learned to slow down and look for beauty in my days, for… — Kim Edwards
Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement. ... The conventional big-bosomed blonde is not mysterious. And what… — Alfred Hitchcock
Green-eyed monsters,” said Magnus, and grinned. He deposited Chairman Meow on the ground, and the cat moved over to Alec, and rubbed against his leg.… — Cassandra Clare
Don't you think that's the main reason people find [writing] so difficult? If they can write complete sentences and can use a dictionary, isn't that… — Kurt Vonnegut
Your ego-depletion seems problematically difficult to assuage. — Orson Scott Card
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
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
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
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
It was, I remembered thinking, the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make. In every way, a walk to remember. — Nicholas Sparks
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
In life we often look to others for simple, but difficult answers, despite the fact that we have those answers ourselves. — James Frey
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
To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it. — Agatha Christie
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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