Thomas Brooks Quotes

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

No one is immune to the trials and tribulations of life.

Everybody goes through their own tribulations in life.

Sicknesses, losses, crosses, anxieties and disappointments seem absolutely needful to keep us humble, watchful and spiritual-minde d. They are as needful as the pruning knife to the vine and the refiner’s furnace to the gold.

If there were no affliction in this world we might think we were in paradise.

Everyone has a cross to bear. Sometimes I have to take the splinters out of my shoulders.

You can't have a pain-free life. It can't all be roses and unicorns.

We are born to trouble; and we may depend upon it, whilst we live in this world, we shall have it, though with intermissions.

My life was pretty rough.

It's not been a pleasant life.

I've been through a lot of stuff.

Well, there are all kinds of gutters. Life will supply you with gutters.

Life is difficult for everyone; everyone has bad days. Everyone has trouble in their life, because it doesn't matter how rich you are: Sickness and trouble and worry and love, these things will mess with you at every level of life.

Crap has always happened, crap is happening, and crap will continue to happen.

People need to know what I've gone through.

I had a very hard life in Kazakhstan.

I've seen a great deal of hardship in my life.

I would say, anyone who knows me says they don't envy my life. I've just been through very hard times, yes.

Everyone has troubles in their life.

Life is full of hardships, pimp slaps, and sorrow.

Misery and misfortune is all one; and of misfortune fortune hath only the gift.

We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another.

Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity.

Life's not all beer and skittles

I've seen the hell these people go through.