Tough Life Quotes

“I don't play with my life by talking bullshit.
I might have some chances in this bitchy life,
but I've got only one fuckin' chance to give...
my best shot.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“He picked up one of Lorna's roses and set it in my lap. "Here." I picked it up and smelled it. He poked me in the shoulder. "See what I mean? Thorns don't stop you from sniffing. Or putting them in a vase on the kitchen table. You work around them.... Cause the rose is worth it... Think what you'd miss.”
― Charles Martin, Chasing Fireflies

“So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldn't be read in school because it is irrelevant, or any of the strange and stupid things that are said about poetry and its place in our lives, I suspect that the people doing the saying have had things pretty easy. A tough life needs a tough language - and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers - a language powerful enough to to say how it is.

It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“Sometimes life will be awesome. Sometimes, life will look blurry. Along the way in the journey of life, sometimes, life will be colder than warmer and sometimes warmer than colder but in all things we must remember that it is never over for a purposeful journey of life until the journey of life is over. Be it rough or smooth, good or bad, we must accomplish the task. It shall always not be good and it shall always not be bad; we only have to work hard.”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“There are times when we are going through a difficult time, and it becomes the hardest to see any good that can come from our suffering. The nature of reality is that struggles help us reach our true potential. There can be no success without failure and there can be no achievement without defeat. These are the stepping stones, the stumbling blocks, on our path to greatness, love, peace and joy.”
― Todd Perelmuter

“A hard head makes a soft ass.”
― Will Leamon, Mama, Me & 'em: Bittersweet Memories

“Your situation may seem to look permanent and you may find massive mountains soaring against you but you have the power to bring these mountains down low to bring forth change and progress which were unbearable yesterday.”
― Patricia Dsouza

“The soul is renewed through tough times.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“When the going gets tough, the tough simply surrender”
― Davidson Samuel

“Fight, face, be valiant
and move ahead you gallant
Don't stop, don't hide
walk with pride.
No life is forever serene
No plains are eternally green...”
― Vandana Yadav

“He had every right to be hardened by the cards life had dealt him but he had a heart as soft as clouds”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish

“I have nothing to give; just life lessons from a tough life lived.”
― Mitta Xinindlu