Life Is Hard Quotes

“I honestly wish I could believe that things will end perfectly with one big bright happy ending. But these last few days have taught me that life isn't made up of shiny moments. Life is hard; it's gritty. One day you are filled with joy and the next, you are crawling through the muddy trenches with no inkling of when you might be able to climb your way back up again. ~Willow Mosby (Exposing ELE)”
― Rebecca Gober, Exposing ELE

“The Gospel isn’t a life management program. It shouldn’t merely be the crutch we fall on when life gets ugly. It should be the legs we walk on, the air we breathe.”
― Mary E. DeMuth, Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

“So don't let nobody tell you any different about the old days. Life is hard now, nothing but suffering, but some kinds of suffering is easier to bear than others.”
― Justina Ireland, Dread Nation

“Have I ever seen a star breaking from the sky? Or is it you falling from eye?”
― Wrushank Sorte

“Sometimes doing the right thing is the hardest thing in the entire world. Sometimes it costs you everything you have.' —Enid Healy”
― Seanan McGuire, Magic for Nothing

“There is a correlation between how hard life seems to us and how easy we expected it to be.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Increasing the strength of our minds is the only way to reduce the difficulty of life.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The fact is, life rains on you. How sad you haven’t learned to dance in the downpour.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year

“Have you ever been too old, too young, too big, too small, too smart, too dumb?
Have you ever been too fat, too thin, too shy, too loud, too slow to win?
Have you ever been too scared to try, too small to play, too young to die?
Have you ever been too weak to fight, too little yet, or not quite right?

Have you ever been too dark, too light, too black, too brown, too red, too white?
Have you ever been put off ’til last, the odd man out, the jerk they sassed?
Have you ever been the one black sheep, the naughty child, the nerdy geek?
Have you ever been the butt of jokes, the timid soul, the oddest folk?

Have you ever been left out of fun, forgotten when the day is done?
Have you ever been afraid to lose? Afraid to try? Afraid to choose?
Have you ever been too rich, too poor, too venturesome, or just a bore?
Have you ever had no clue at all? Nowhere to go? No one to call?

Have you ever been without a friend? Have you ever wished the day would end?
Have you ever had the biggest nose, the longest arms, the funny toes?
Have you ever had the flattest chest? Have you ever had the biggest breasts?
Have you ever prayed your luck would change? Have you ever felt your life was strange?

Have you ever wished for something more, or something less than what you were?
If you have ever felt this way, you're one of us I’m here to say.
We've all been there a time or two because we're human, me and you.
We've all felt different in some way because we are, and that’s okay.
We've all been hurt; we've all been scarred. That's life. And frankly, life is hard.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year

“Life is difficult. For some people, excessively so.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“Dreams are important, but don't forget about your responsibilities in the real world.”
― Alyssa Moon, Delphine and the Silver Needle

“Man is dust.
Rue is rain.
Life is mud.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year

“Life has a cruel way of reminding one and all it stops for no one and simply marches on, dragging everyone with it.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Vocation of a Gadfly

“In our world, dear reader, sad and terrible things often happen, though I wish I could tell you otherwise. But strangely wonderful things also occur, and this is the truth that makes life worth living.”
― John Mark Green, She Had a Very Inconvenient Heart: A Tale of Love and Magic

“A seashell that fell on the well,
Says a telling of a lost spell.
That this thing about life,
Can be hard as a knife.”
― Maridany

“Just because life is unstable doesn’t mean you have to be.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“If rocks did not persevere under heat and pressure, they would never become diamonds.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Of course I'm ill, I'm alive aren't I?”
― Richard Powers

“When you’re watching your baby son die, or your child fight to live and learn to walk again or watch your wife lose her memory or or or ... when you KNOW what matters in life ... the little battles we naturally experience over ego seem to disappear because they are overshadowed by gratitude. ⁣”
― Richie Norton

“Maybe the Nazis told the truth about us. Maybe the Nazis were the truth. We shouldn't forget the truth. The rest, just beautiful tiful lies about ourselves. Perhaps do — to sing another beautiful lie.”
― Romain Gary

“Quit complaining about life’s burdens, a dung beetle carries up 1000 times its own body weight.”
― Anoir Ou-Chad

“The weight of youth is light, yes, but life generally grows heavier into adulthood. This, embedded as deep as the most human social construct, reaches even territories of natural law: we call it 'responsibility' - or the harmony kept afloat by able grown-ups carrying their own weight.”
― Criss Jami

“Life ain’t fair. It’s brutal sometimes. . . faith don’t stop the horrible things. But faith helps you walk through those things, whipped and angry and screaming on the inside. Lord don’t mind our screaming and raging. He done shown us how to do it in those psalms of his that King David wrote.”
― Elizabeth Musser, By Way of the Moonlight

“We often perceive life as difficult or unfair. However, it is our interpretation that shapes this perception. Life itself is neither inherently good nor bad; it's neutral, much like a flowing river, streaming in one direction. We have the choice to either accept and navigate with the current or to exert effort against the stream.”
― Anoir Ou-chad

“Clearly, despite the oft-repeated propaganda sound bite that technology is here to make life easier, the increasing complexity of the modern world isn’t doing many people a lot of favors.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality