Difficult Quotes
6176 Difficult quotes by 3909 unique authors
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The window gave onto a view of dove-gray roofs and balconies, each one containing the same cracked flowerpot and sleeping feline. It was as if…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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The most difficult thing to read is time. Maybe because it changes so many things.
— Erin Morgenstern
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Gaining a victory is more difficult than maintaining it once you have it.
— Joyce Meyer
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Indeed we have great reason to rejoice. If life and its rushed pace and many stresses have made it difficult for you to feel like…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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Perhaps; but I am a difficult person to live with. My difficulty consists in not wanting to live with other people.
— J M Coetzee
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It's funny how you can't ask difficult questions in a familiar place, how you have to stand back a few feet and see things in…
— Donald Miller
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Of all my children, you were always the hardest on yourself. You were always looking for the right way to behave, so concerned you might…
— Elizabeth George
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So what is this feadnach? Is it another curse that makes me beholden to slaves and shrews?' 'No, my lord. It is your heart. Difficult…
— Carol Berg
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It is more difficult by far to be independent of our own inner shackles than it is of the shackles that others might place upon…
— R A Salvatore
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What I condemn are our system of values and the men who don't acknowledge how great, difficult, but ultimately beautiful women's share in society is.
— Anne Frank
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It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Sometimes the most difficult things to see are those that have been right in front of us all along… We who have heard the glorious…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness. I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The infant-inconvenience kicked in response, and Conall twitched at the sensation. “Active little pup, isn’t he?” “She,” corrected his wife. “As if any child of…
— Gail Carriger
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Because of that she had never had enough energy to be herself, a person who, like everyone else in the world, needed other people in…
— Paulo Coelho
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Over the years I knew her she always looked at me like that - as though I was a quite pleasant but amusing object -…
— James Herriot
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To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain in…
— Aldous Huxley
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Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that work on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back…
— Joan Didion
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Love in all its forms is very difficult ... to express. It changes, obviously. If you’re young, and you’re romantically in love with somebody, and…
— Dylan Moran
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Anything outside yourself, this you can see and apply your logic to it. But it’s a human trait that when we encounter personal problems, these…
— Frank Herbert
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Jessica, I know I've been...difficult," he said. "All the same—" "Difficult?" She looked up, her grey eyes wide, "You have been impossible. I begin to…
— Loretta Chase
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I understood at once, I am not living, but actively dying. I am smoking, living unhealthily. I’m shutting down. I need to go the other…
— Augusten Burroughs
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He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace…
— Leo Tolstoy
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
— Anne Carson
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In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities, but are continually…
— Haruki Murakami
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