John Henrik Clarke Quotes

Public life is like a long journey, in which we have immense tracks of waste countries to pass through for a very few grand and beautiful prospects.

You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.

I have had many challenges in my life, including some very big ones when I was young and I've learned a lot of valuable lessons along the way. I have seen life from just about every angle you can see it from.

Our ingress into the world Was naked and bare; Our progress through the world Is trouble and care.

Life has ups and it has downs. I don't care who you are.

When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

I don't want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

We have to acknowledge that adolescence is that time of transition where we begin to introduce to children that life isn't pretty, that there are difficult things, there are hard situations, it's not fair. Bad things happen to good people.

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets and it's always in your face.

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.

Everyone goes through a hard time in their life.

Here's a secret: Everyone, if they live long enough, will lose their way at some point. You will lose your way; you will wake up one morning and find yourself lost. This is a hard, simple truth.

Everybody has a tragedy or two in their lives.

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.

I know it's an experience that I need to have if God's putting me through it.

They had been brought up in the School of Hard Knocks.

Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks.