36+ Best Quotes About Life Being Hard: Exclusive Selection

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Famous Quotes About Life Being Hard

Any sort of major change we want to make in our life is hard. Change is not easy and true change takes time and takes thousands, millions probably, of failures along that path and that’s the interesting thing. — Cory Barlog

When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’ — Sydney J. Harris

For me, real life is hard work. Making movies is like a vacation for my soul. — Guillermo del Toro

A dancer’s life is hard – it is so physically demanding, and at any moment, you could have an injury that could end your career. — Monica Cruz

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Life is hard. It is. And it’s like, I don’t want anybody feeling any pain. — Bebe Rexha

There are three things that I’m addicted to when it comes to entertainment. In no particular order, One, I’m addicted to the cheer moment. ‘Librarians’ has plenty of them. Next, I feel that life is hard, and I want my entertainment fun, and ‘Librarians’ is fun as a Christmas party. And third, I like to be moved. — Dean Devlin

I think life is hard at the combat outposts, and anything that distracts us from supporting them, in my mind, is something that we shouldn’t do. — Stanley A. McChrystal

If I wasn’t dyslexic, I probably wouldn’t have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily… and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work. — Caitlyn Jenner

Life is hard. Not great. Kind of tragic. — T. J. Miller

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

I think this life is hard without assistance from others. — RuPaul

I think there’s nothing better than laughing in life, so that’s nice, to be thought of as someone who can make someone laugh. It’s ’cause I think life is hard. You know, my dad was a really silly man. A great Irish silly man. And that’s fine. — Joan Cusack

Life is hard and it gets worse and worse and worse. — Cat Power

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

Life is hard, but we make it much harder. — Ryan Holiday

Life is hard, but there are moments, sometimes hours – and, if you’re really lucky, full days – where everything feels just right. — Andy Grammer

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard. — Benjamin Disraeli

We all want to be loved. We all want to feel accepted. We all want to feel content. And life is hard. — Hayley Kiyoko

Life is hard, and a lot of people come home tired from work. If they’re gonna spend half an hour reading, they want some entertainment and a sense of achievement. So that’s what I give them. That’s all I’m trying to do. Is that really so wrong? — James Patterson

Life is hard. After all, it kills you. — Katharine Hepburn

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

Not having a private life is hard. — Amber Riley

Life is hard, you know. If I can give someone on the radio three minutes to make them feel happier, that’s a cool thing. — Andy Grammer

Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. — Iain Duncan Smith

Part of my act is meant to shake you up. It looks like I’m being funny, but I’m reminding you of other things. Life is tough, darling. Life is hard. And we better laugh at everything; otherwise, we’re going down the tube. — Joan Rivers

Life wasn’t easy growing up; it was frustrating. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily, everything would have come easily, and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work. — Caitlyn Jenner

Life is hard for everyone. That’s why there’s such a nice reward at the end of it. — Aidan Quinn

If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. — Louis D. Brandeis

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. Life is difficult. Life is going to punch you in the gut. But when you change your attitude, you change your behavior. When your behavior changes, so do your results. — Will Hurd

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

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

I think most people have a general sense that when you’re released from prison, life is hard, but, you know, if you work hard and apply self-discipline and stay out of trouble, you can make it. But that’s true only for a relative few. — Michelle Alexander

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

My philosophy is: Life is hard, but God is good. Try not to confuse the two. — Anne F. Beiler

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