Lillian Gish Quotes

Unfortunately, this world is not an easy place.

Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.

Ours was not a normal or easy life.

I've never contended that I had a really horrible life.

This is a tough environment, and it's tough for everybody.

I always say that life is not easy for anybody. People hear about the young actors who have a rough life, but there are plenty of other kids who aren't actors who have a rough time, too, and I don't know if the ratio is any different.

It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard!

Life is really hard for some people.

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.

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 have known exceptional people who have endured severe trials while others, at least on the surface, seem to have lived charmed lives.

I had a very hard life in Kazakhstan.

We did not had enough facilities in the village. My family was also not well off. There was no mat, no gym; we used to wrestle in the mud. It was very different from the national camps where I trained before the Commonwealth Games.

The real world is harsh.

I had the misfortune of being born in a horrendous situation.

The purpose of this lectchoor is to let you know where we are. We are in the deep cack. It couldn't be worse if it was raining arseholes. Any questions?

There is cruelty in the world Eliza, you can see that, can't you? It surrounds us. It breathes on us. We spend our life trying to escape it.

Seriously,” Shane said, “this kind of is the worst situation we’ve ever been in, right?” “Speak for yourself,” Michael said. “I got myself killed last year. Twice.” “Oh yeah. You’re right—last year really sucked for you.

After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him.

Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.' Sethe shook her head. 'Soft as cream. Being alive was the hard part.

This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid for in full.

Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.

Sometimes, like now, Olive had a sense of just how desperately hard every person in the world was working to get what they needed. For most, it was a sense of safety, in the sea of terror that life increasingly became. (211)

We accept that sometimes in difficult circumstances, difficult things happen.

Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.