Life Is Hard Quotes - Page 7

• What do we measure when we measure time? The gloomy answer from Hawking, one of our most implacably cheerful scientists, is that we measure entropy. We measure changes and those changes are all for the worse. We measure increasing disorder. Life is hard, says science, and constancy is the greatest of miracles.

  David Quammen

  Miracle, Cheerful, Answers

  David Quammen (2012). “Wild Thoughts from Wild Places”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm always surprised reading my old journals. There's this idea that life is hard now, but then I'll reach that moment where it'll change. But there's no summit. It's a constant climb.

  Chris Pine

  Reading, Ideas, Moments

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Some people say it is hard to live in such a way, being completely one with the present moment. Of course, it is not hard. The opposite is hard. Not being one with life is hard, and that is how most people live.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Opposites, People, Way

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Life is hard, and a lot of people come home tired from work. If they're gonna spend half an hour reading, they want some entertainment and a sense of achievement. So that's what I give them. That's all I'm trying to do. Is that really so wrong?

  James Patterson

  Reading, Home, Tired

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• Life is hard enough, so when you can get any joy out of it, whether it's something you do on a day-to-day basis, or the people in your life, or going to see a funny movie, there's just nothing better. That's what life is about.

  Ari Graynor

  People, Joy, Enough

  "Exclusive: Ari Graynor Talks LUCKY, THE SITTER and WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER?". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 15, 2011.

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• Life is hard, but it's even harder when you don't wanna face it.

  Katie Ashley

  Faces, Harder, Life Is

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• And things are never okay. It does get better I guess, in that you grow to love yourself if you're lucky. But it doesn't get better because life is hard, and people aren't always nice.

  Justin Vivian Bond

  Nice, Love You, People

  "Mx Justin Vivian Bond: Backwards and in High Heels". Interview with Ron Bennington, theinterrobang.com. October 24, 2011.

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• I was one of those kids who thought I could be the president of England when I grew up if I wanted to. Then I started acting and realized life is hard and people are mean. And there's no president of England and I'm not British.

  Riley Keough

  Mean, Kids, People

  Interview with Steven Soderbergh, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 26, 2015.

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• Life is hard already. Why make it harder?

  Sara Shepard

  Life Is, Harder, Hard

  Sara Shepard (2010). “Perfect: Number 3 in series”, p.110, Hachette UK

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• Life is easy For the man who is without shame, Impudent as a crow, A vicious gossip, Vain, meddlesome, dissolute. But life is hard For the man who quietly undertakes The way of perfection, With purity, detachment and vigor. He sees light.

  Gautama Buddha

  Men, Light, Gossip

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• I think my music is a reflection of what I think life is. Which is beautiful and sad, you know. I'm a bit of a sad-sack, in a way. I try not to be a mope. But life is hard, you know, and life is weird. Not to get too depressing. But it's also beautiful and gorgeous, and I'm glad I'm here.

  Gary Louris

  Beautiful, Depressing, Reflection

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm sure you've felt this way along the way: Yes, I got to do what I wanted to do. But it was much harder than I thought it was going to be, and it continues to be. You never get to a place that is a place of rest. I think that's OK. It's not bad - life is hard work!

  Lauren Graham

  Hard Work, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Marriage. The roots are deep. The covenant is solid. The love is sweet. Life is hard. And God is good.

  John Piper

  Sweet, Love Is, Roots

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.11, Multnomah

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• I realized that for many people attending a reading is like watching television at the end of a long day. They don't want to be sad but to laugh. Chances are they'll pick the sitcoms over the horror movies. So I learned that, while one's larger body of fiction can have quite a bit of sadness and conflict and tragedy in it , in a reading environment, the average audience member seems able to tolerate only a little bit of sadness. They'd much rather the reading be sexy, funny, and witty. Life is hard these days. There's more than enough sadness in the world, so I can't blame them.

  Chinelo Okparanta

  Sexy, Witty, Reading

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Life's hard, then you die.

  Woody Allen

  Cans Of Worms, Meaningful Death, Dies

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• Life is hard. Life is beautiful. Life is difficult. Life is wonderful.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Beautiful, Hard Life, Wonderful

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The Lord's way is not hard. Life is hard, not the gospel.

  Lawrence E. Corbridge

  Hard Life, Way, Lord

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• After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Fake People, Masters, Wells

  Joseph Brodsky, Cynthia L. Haven (2002). “Joseph Brodsky: Conversations”, p.93, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Life is hard, we say. An oyster's life is worse. She lives motionless, soundless, her own cold ugly shape her only dissipation.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Life, Oysters, Shapes

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.163, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is true you can be successful without [college], but this is a hard world, a real world, and you want every advantage you can have. I would suggest to people to do all that you can. When I dropped out of school, I had worked in the music industry and had checks cut in my name from record labels and had a record deal on the table, and when I wasn’t successful and Columbia said, ’We’ll call you,’ I had to go back and work a telemarketing job, go back to the real world, and that’s how life is. Life is hard. Take advantage of your opportunities.

  Kanye West

  Jobs, Real, School

  "College Dropout Kanye Tells High School Students Not To Follow In His Footsteps" by Corey Moss, www.mtv.com. December 5, 2005.

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• Life is hard but being stupid makes it harder.

  George V. Higgins

  Stupid, Harder, Life Is

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• We take it for granted that life is hard and feel lucky to have whatever happiness we get. We do not look upon happiness as a birthright, nor do we expect it to be more than peace or contentment. Real joy, the state in which the Yequana spend much of their lives, is exceedingly rare among us.

  Jean Liedloff

  Real, Joy, Contentment

  Jean Liedloff (1985). “The Continuum Concept: Allowing Human Nature to Work Successfully”, p.148, Da Capo Press

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• Life is hard, but death is even harder.

  Peter Kreeft

  Life Is, Harder, Hard

  Peter Kreeft (2010). “Between Heaven and Hell: A Dialog Somewhere Beyond Death with John F. Kennedy, C. S. Lewis & Aldous Huxley”, p.137, InterVarsity Press

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• I love New York, but it's a rough city. It's not dangerous now the way it was in the 70's or the 80's, but it's still a rough city. It's hard to hack it there. Life is harder than it is on the West Coast. To be able to deal with that, you have to have a lot of aspirational feelings pinned on being there.

  Greta Gerwig

  New York, Cities, Feelings

  Source: collider.com

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• Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

  John Darnielle

  Children, Tired, Delight

  "The Mountain Goats". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. October 1, 2012.

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