The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
Harry Golden
There’s plenty of days when I’m like ‘Oh God, why? But that’s just life. It’s every job, not just mine. Every moment is not perfect.
Beyonce Knowles
Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother’s wombs, and then there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women.
Lemony Snicket
Life roars by you like a flood and you grab whatever looks like it will hold you up. If you ask me, that’s how it is and ever shall be.
Barbara Kingslover, The Poisonwood Bible
Only then does he realize what he has done to Mirabelle, how wanting a square inch of her and not all of her has damaged them both, and how he cannot justify his actions except that, well, it was life.
Steve Martin, Shopgirl
Some hard things, two or three, had already happened to me but not to him so it was a shock when he found out maybe life isn’t one long basketball game.
Truman Capote, In Cold Blood
Nothing has turned out as we expected! It never does. Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it’s no worse than it is.
Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Sometimes, just saying that you hate something, and having someone agree with you, can make you feel better about a terrible situation.
Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning
Sometimes you’re the windshield
sometimes you’re the bug
Dire Straits, The Bug
I feel like my life is so scattered right now. Like it’s all the small pieces of paper and someone’s turned on the fan. But, talking to you makes me feel like the fan’s been turned off for a little bit. Like things could actually make sense. You completely unscatter me, and I appreciate that so much.
John Green and David Levithan , Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite and never outstay the welcome. Just keep your mind open and suck in the experience. And if it hurts, you know what? It’s probably worth it.
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Beach
If my whole world is going to crash down around me then I am going to make the sound of the crashing. I want to scream until all my bones break.
John Green and David Levithan , Will Grayson, Will Grayson
You don’t know this yet, but life isn’t supposed to be like this. It’s not supposed to be this hard.
Ellen Pompeo, Grey’s Anatomy
It’s the same with people who say, ‘Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’ Even people who say this must realize that the exact opposite is true. What doesn’t kill you maims you, cripples you, leaves you weak, makes you whiny and full of yourself at the same time. The more pain, the more pompous you get. Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you incredibly annoying.
Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape