Douglas William Jerrold Quotes

To the stars through thorns.

If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it.

If thou has a bundle of thorns in thy lot, there is no need to sit down on it.

You always have to finish what you start and I learned that some of life's greatest lessons come with disappointment.

What must be done must be done, whatever the price, the cost, the pain. One day we all must walk through fire.

Upon my weary heart was showered smiles, plaudits and flowers, but beyond them I saw troubles and thorns innumerable.

I could never say in the morning, "I have a headache and cannot do thus and so". Headache or no headache, thus and so had to be done.

The yoke you wear determines the burden you bear.

Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.

Every step you take will feel as if you were treading upon knife blades so sharp that blood must flow. I am willing to help you, but are you willing to suffer all this?" "Yes," the little mermaid said in a trembling voice, as she thought of the Prince and of gaining a human soul.

It's the sense of duty that keeps you going sometimes when things get very, very rough. Somebody's got to do it. And if you don't, who will?

The world brought me to my knees, what have you brung you?

Life isn't easy, no matter where you are. You'll make choices you think are right, and then suffer for them.

The child endures all things.

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune

Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force

You shouldn't side-step suffering if you have to go through it to get where you're going.

Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.

The way out is the way through.

I am not afraid of a fight; I have to do my duty, come what may.

You can and you must expect suffering.

Being willing to suffer often brings great rewards.

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

All crosses are easier to carry when we keep moving.

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