Difficult Quotes

One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act!

It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.

I’ve always believed happiness is overrated, you know? It’s those difficult times that inform the next wonderful time, and it’s a series of trade-offs, of events, of wins and losses.

Does making money excite me? No, but I have to make money for my shareholders. What excites me is achievement, doing something difficult.

The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person.

Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Difficulties must be studied and dealt with, but they must not be magnfied by fear.

Not every day can be an easy one, nor every day fully happy; but even a day of tough going and difficulty can be a good day.

I’ll be too old to face a difficult championship as the one in America will surely be.

It’s 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 its place is a work extremely troublesome.