Quotes About Life Is Hard

“Life is hard enough as it is without choosing someone difficult to share it with”

— Greg Behrendt

“Life is hard; It's even harder if you're stupid.”

— John Wayne

“When life is hard, remember - we are not the first to ask, 'Is there no other way?”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

“When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?”

— Sydney J. Harris

“Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order”

— David Gerrold

“Life is hard, kid. you gotta be harder. you gotta take it on and fight for it and be a fucking man about how you live it. if you're too much of a pussy to do that, then maybe you should leave, 'cause you're dead already”

— James Frey

“Life is hard. After all, it kills you.”

— Katharine Hepburn

“When someone you love dies, it's normal to lose your faith. I don't want you to lose yours. I want you to believe that there is a bigger force than you in this world, a loving and compassionate force. I want you to believe that your life has meaning and your existence has purpose. And when life is hard, I want you to believe that you'll be given strength to endure it, and that it will get better. I want you to have the peace in your heart you can only have when you believe there is a reason for everything, even if you cannot see it.”

— Kaya McLaren

“Life is hard, even more so for those who lack a sense of humor.”

— A.J. Garces

“Military life is hard, even cruel-especially for the kids.”

— Tucker Elliot

“Life is hard for everyone. That's why there's such a nice reward at the end of it.”

— Aidan Quinn

“Even if I only wrote erotica, I wouldn't care what you have to say. I make people happy! Blake and I provide readers with fun and entertainment and an escape from their lives, which is a damn good thing because life is hard and really sucks sometimes. Life isn't a fairy-tale and not everyone in gets a happily-ever-after, but in our book world they do.”

— Karina Halle

“Not having a private life is hard.”

— Amber Riley

“I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.”

— Kate Klise

“We Americans often say that marriage is hard work. I'm not sure that the Hmong would understand this notion. Life is hard work, of course, and work is very hard work
I'm quite certain they would agree with those statements - but how does marriage become hard work? Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life's expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work. A recent survey of young American women found that what women are seeking these days in a husband - more than anything else - is a man who will "inspire" them, which is, by any measure, a tall order. As a point of comparison, young women of the same age, surveyed back in the 1920s, were more likely to choose a partner based on qualities such as "decency" or "honesty," or his ability to provide for a family. But that's not enough anymore. Now we want to be INSPIRED by our spouses! Daily! Step to it, honey!”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should you have your pride in the morning and your resignation in the evening?
Life is hard to bear: but do not pretend to be so tender! We are all of us pretty fine asses and asseses of burden!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Sometimes, teachers must be hard. People must be given a hard message because life is hard, and dying is hard,”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“You say to me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But wherefore would you have in the morning your pride and in the evening your resignation?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Life is hard - if you think it's hard.”

— Tom Robbins

“Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.”

— Iain Duncan Smith

“Life is hard. It is not too short, it is too long. But you have to learn how to live; you have to have a sense of humour.”

— Carolina Herrera

“I believe that life is hard. That we all are going to walk through things that are hard and challenging, and yet advertising wants us to believe that it's all easy.”

— Jamie Lee Curtis

“I think just because life is hard, it does seem fun to have a break and laugh about things, so I think in the end, my instincts go there.”

— Joan Cusack

“He was trying to make us think about how life is hard and people suffer in all sorts of ways without our adding to their suffering to satisfy our sense of vengeance, but I sort of don't think that the quote holds up in the real world, where literature and schooling and philosophy and morality don't exist, because Asher and Linda and so many other culpable people seem to be fine-functioning exceptionally well within the world even-while I'm under a disgusting bridge about to put a hole in my skull.”

— Matthew Quick

“Life is hard, Pat, and children have to be told how hard life can be." "Why?" "So they will be sympathetic to others. So they will understand that some people have it harder than they do and that a trip through this world can be a wildly different experience, depending on what chemicals are raging through one's mind." I”

— Matthew Quick

“People think that it's the beast that makes us lose our sanity. They think the beast takes over and we become loup. Animals don't destroy each other for pure pleasure. They don't have serial killers. They kill, they don't murder. No, it's not the beast in us that makes us lose our balance. It's the man. Of all the animals, we're the most aggressive and the most predatory. We have to be, otherwise we would've never survived. You can see it in children, especially adolescents. Life is hard for them, so they attack it and fight for their own place in it. Homo homini lupus.”

— Ilona Andrews

“I've always hated criminals and crime. Life is hard enough without someone walking into your life on purpose and making it worse.”

— Pauley Perrette

“Life is hard but so very beautiful”

— Abraham Lincoln

“And I am always flattered," Rusty continued, "but I love my sister. Not in an 'I love my sister and I want to make out with her' way, that would be terrible and disturbing, but in an 'I love my sister, and I'm not going anywhere near the girl she likes' way. Be a big mess. Life is hard for me, with all my irresistible sexual magnetism. It's a real problem, almost as bad as the fact that my steps are now the number one crying spot in Sorry-in-the-Vale. I have to maintain control of the situation at all times or my life would devolve into a nonstop romantical frenzy".”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

“A sematary," I say. "A what?" Viola says, looking round at all the square stones marking out their graves. Must be a hundred, maybe two, in orderly rows and well-kept grass. Settler life is hard and it's short and lotsa New World people have lost the battle.
"It's a place for burying dead folk," I say.
Her eyes widen. "A place for doing what?"
"Don't people die in space?" I ask.
"Yeah," she says. "But we burn them. We don't put them in holes." She crosses her arms around herself, mouth and forehead frowning, peering around at the graves. "How can this be sanitary?”

— Patrick Ness

“Life is hard, the earth stubborn, science rich in knowledge but poor in practical results.”

— Franz Kafka

“Life is hard already. Why make it harder?”

— Sara Shepard

“Life has its share of joys and laughter-but we also know life's road is often very rough. Temptations assail us; people disappoint us; illness and age weaken us; tragedies and sorrows ambush us; evil and injustice overpower us. Life is hard-but God is good, and heaven is real!”

— Billy Graham

“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

“Life is hard, and then you die.”

— Erik Naggum

“The truth is, what I learned this year is that life is hard ... Good people die for no reason. Little kids get sick. The people that are supposed to love you end up leaving.”

— Jennifer Weiner

“Southern women see no point in the hard way. Life is hard enough. So we add a little sugar to the sour. Which is not to suggest Southern women are disingenuous cream puffs. Quite the opposite. When you are born into a history as loaded as the South's, when you carry in your bones the incontrovertible knowledge of man's violence and limitations, daring to stay sweet is about the most radical thing you can do.”

— Allison Glock

“When life is hard, you have to change.”

— Shannon Hoon

“Rather than taking an easy route, taking a difficult route is more satisfying and interesting. Life is hard at times; life is easy at other times. It zig zags and spins round and round. It goes up and down When all that is done, you'll probably smile and say, I lived a very fun life”

— Minzy

“Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid.”

— John Wayne

“Democracy, like life, is hard to learn and doesn't have a teacher,”

— Jose Gonzalez

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

— Katie Ashley

“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

“Life is hard, money doesn't care, your tears don't add value”

— Kevin O'Leary

“At times, life is hard, as hard as crucible steel. It has its bleak and painful moments. Like the ever flowing water of a river, life has its moments of drought and its moments of flood. Like the ever-changin cycle of the seasons, life has the soothing warmth of the summers and the piercing chill of its winters. But through it all, God walks with us. Never forget that God is able to lift you from the fatigue of despair to the buoyancy of hope, and transform dark and desolate valleys into sunlit paths of inner peace.”

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

“And among academicians, and among spirits. I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it. No doubt there was much more wisdom that I failed to recognize. Life is hard, Mr. Scoresby, but we cling to it all the same.”

— Philip Pullman

“Death must be easy cuz life is hard”

— Curtis Jackson

“Sunny days wouldn't be special, if it wasn't for rain. Joy wouldn't feel so good, if it wasn't for pain. Death gotta be easy, 'cause life is hard; It'll leave you physically, mentally, and emotionally scarred.”

— Curtis Jackson

“Life is hard for insects. And don't think mice are having any fun either.”

— Woody Allen

“Life is hard enough, you don't have to embellish the drama!”

— Marianne Williamson