Derek Jacobi Quotes

My life is simple and rough.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

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.

Sometimes I think life is just a rodeo, the trick is to ride and make it to the bell.

Get used to a rough life, for luxury does not last forever.

If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world, it will all be much simpler.

‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival.

Life is hard, we say. An oyster's life is worse. She lives motionless, soundless, her own cold ugly shape her only dissipation.

In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it.

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)

It's a hard world for little things.

Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.

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

You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of.

You will survive anything if you live your life from the point of view of truth.

Life is parallel to Hell but I must maintain and be prosperous, though we live dangerous.

Watch out for life ... It's harder than it looks.

Bad things happen, but you can still live.

Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.

Life did not present its sunny side to thee.

We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

Nothing could have survived our life.

If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?