Troublesome Quotes

• Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

  Isaac Asimov

  Sympathy, Death, Depressing

  Isaac Asimov (1988). “Fantastic voyage II: destination brain”

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• I will be kind to everybody, particularly to those whom I find troublesome.

  Anthony Mary Claret

  Saint, Be Kind, Serving Others

  St. Anthony Mary Claret “The Autobiography of St. Anthony Mary Claret”, TAN Books

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• Truth is a troublesome motherfucker unless it's handled properly

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Truth Is

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• Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

  George Washington

  Peace, War, Government

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• To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking.

  James Bryce

  Ignorance, Thinking, People

  Studies in History and Jurisprudence "Obedience" (1901)

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• Being a lady is a frightfully troublesome assignment, since it comprises mainly in managing men.

  Joseph Conrad

  Men, Assignments, Being A Lady

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• Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions. But crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Thinking, Trouble, Advantage

  Jawaharlal Nehru, M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, Bal Ram Nanda (1972). “Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Advisory Board: M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, and B. R. Nanda; General Editor: S. Gopal”

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• The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

  William Penn

  Inspirational, Jealousy, Envy

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.188

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• Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Political, Religion, Principles

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• The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.

  John Dewey

  Path, Resistance, Ruts

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Richard Rorty (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1933”, p.136, SIU Press

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• Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

  Laurence Sterne

  Religion, Literature, Companion

  Laurence Sterne (1853). “Works ...”, p.595

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• Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will Curse you.

  Emmet Fox

  Bless, Curse

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• A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

  Richard Steele

  Lying, Men, Needs

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.103

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• A youthful age is desirable, but aged youth is troublesome and grievous.

  Chilon of Sparta

  Age, Youth, Desirable

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• Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot.

  Dave Eggers

  Eye, Looks, Youth

  Dave Eggers (2007). “What Is the What”, p.116, Vintage

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• All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Future, Vision, Amendments

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• A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Men, Garden, Eden

  W. Somerset Maugham (2002). “The Trembling of a Leaf”, p.84, Dixon Price Pub

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• My good friends, while I do most earnestly recommend you to take care of your health and safety, as things most precious to us, I would not have that care degenerate into an effeminate and over-curious attention, which is always disgraceful to a man's self, and often troublesome to others.

  Edmund Burke

  Good Friend, Men, Self

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke”, p.212

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• Walk in the way of the Lord with simplicity and do not torment your spirit. You must hate your defects, but with a quiet hate, not troublesome and restless.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Hate, Simplicity, Way

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• It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half, and quarter-mistakes; to sift them and assign the portion of truth to its proper place.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mistake, Half, Quarters

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.51, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of the Sun in the morning after its troublesome absence at night were noted by people around the world; these phenomena spoke to our ancestors of the possibility of surviving death. Up there in the skies was also a metaphor of immortality.

  Carl Sagan

  Morning, Sunset, Moon

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• It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.

  Plutarch

  Work, Men, Criticism

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.448

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• She realized all at once that Doon, thin, dark eyed Doon, with his troublesome temper and his terrible brown jacket, and his good heart---- was the person she knew better than anyone now. He was her best friend. --City of Ember--

  Jeanne DuPrau

  Heart, Dark, Cities

  Jeanne DuPrau (2012). “The Books of Ember Omnibus”, p.93, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more troublesome than ideas. Emotions have led people to do all sorts of things they later regret-like, oh, throwing a book at someone else.

  Pseudonymous Bosch

  Regret, Book, Ideas

  Pseudonymous Bosch (2011). “The Name of this Book is Secret: The Secret Series”, p.7, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• Thinking about dark and troublesome things, wondering when they'll come to pay you a visit, turns out to be the very best way to call them to your side.

  Cameron Dokey

  Dark, Thinking, Your Side

  Cameron Dokey, Tracy Lynn, Liz Braswell (2015). “Once Again: Snow; Beauty Sleep”, p.406, Simon and Schuster

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