#Difficulty Quotes

“O, how full of briers is this working-day world!”

“O time, thou must untangle this, not I. It is too hard a knot for me t'untie.”

“It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover.”

“Wisdom is not found with those who dwell at their ease; rather nature, when she adds brain, adds difficulty.”

“Playing golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture.”

“Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.”

“Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult.”

“There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.”

“The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill.”

“Honour travels in a strait so narrow Where one but goes abreast.”

“Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.”

“Un pesimista ve la dificultad en cada oportunidad; un optimista ve una oportunidad en cada dificultad”

“A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.”

“Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.”

“The fascination of what's difficult Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent Spontaneous joy and natural content Out of my heart.”

“A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.”

“Sleep comes more easily than it returns.”

“Headwinds are sore vexations and the more passengers the sorer.”

“To write weekly, to write daily, to write shortly, to write for busy people catching trains in the morning or for tired people coming home in the evening, is a heartbreaking task for men who know good writing from bad. They do it, but instinctively draw out of harm's way anything precious that might be damaged by contact with the public, or anything sharp that might irritate its skin.”

“Writing is still like heaving bricks over a wall.”

“...the problem of space remained, she thought, taking up her brush again. It glared at her. The whole mass of the picture was poised upon that weight. Beautiful and bright it should be on the surface, feathery and evanescent, one colour melting into another like the colours on a butterfly's wing; but beneath the fabric must be clamped together with bolts of iron.”

“It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.”

“All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.”

“It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.”

“Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest men, with understanding sufficient for their stations. No duty is at the same time more difficult to fulfil. The knowledge of character possessed by a single individual is of necessity limited. To seek out the best through the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with the purest motives, is sometimes incorrect.”

“Hate to sound sleazy, but tease me, I don't want it if it's that easy”

“Intimacy is a difficult art.”

“Life is tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid.”

“To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.”

“It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work when there is no definite object of any kind. To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing.”

“Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.”

“Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything easier than it had already been made, and moved by a genuine interest in those who make everything easy, I conceived it as my task to create difficulties everywhere.”

“There are simple answers to the nation's problems, but not easy ones.”

“Only the noble of heart are called to difficulty.”

“The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.”

“It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.”

“When all combine in every way to make everything easier, people will want difficulty. I conceived it as my task to make difficulties everywhere.”

“Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.”

“There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.”

“My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. It seems manifest, then, that the latter tongue ought to be trimmed down and repaired. If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.”

“Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.”

“It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script.”

“What is the hardest task in the world? To think.”

“To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.”

“He says the best way out is always through. / And I can agree to that, or in so far / As that I can see no way out but through”

“I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter.”

“We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.”

“If you have to swallow a frog, don't stare at it too long.”

“It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you think you've got it, they spring the subjunctive on you, and there you are. No- and I see now plainly enough, that the great pity about the German language is, that you can't fall off it and hurt yourself. There is nothing like that feature to make you attend strictly to business.”

“If relationships were hard, mariage was even harder... it seemed like most couples struggled. It went with the territory. What did Nana always say? Stick two different people with two different sets of expectations under one roof and it ain't always going to be shrimp and grits on Easter.”