Philip Roth Quotes

Those people don't know how tough that really was.

Everything's been a struggle for me.

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

I've been through a lot of stuff.

It's not the easiest life in the world, but then no life is easy.

I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success.

Life is not mean to be easy.

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

Nothing in my life was ever easy.

Nothing in my life has really ever been easy. I've always been someone who did it uphill.

Struggle is the best teacher.

You are bound to undergo hardships, and it has been no different for me.

Trouble is part of your life

The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Life, people learned, was not easy. Life was not cake. Life was not a carrot cake.

The journey towards success is not always easy or upwards.

The truth is, the world isn't easy for any of us. It never has been and it never will be.

If you are willing to do only what's easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what's hard, life will be easy.

This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!

It is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to have it so.

That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would be no gates at all.

The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

Ease makes less of an impression on us than struggle.

This isn't going to be easy," I grumbled as we headed toward the exit. Bones shrugged. "Nothing worthwhile ever is.