Nancy Mitford Quotes

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

My life was pretty rough.

I had a very hard life in Kazakhstan.

We all have to go through hard times. Tragedies. Those are given to us to see what we're going to do with them.

I've had, what, two years? Probably five good years. Before that I had twenty years of uncertainty and suffering and ego destruction and poverty. All those things. That'll always outweigh the good times.

Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.

You would not easily guess All the modes of distress Which torture the tenants of earth; And the various evils, Which like so many devils, Attend the poor souls from their birth.

Then know, that I have little wealth to lose. A man I am, crossed with adversity; My riches are these poor habiliments, Of which if you should here disfurnish me, You take the sum and substance that I have.

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

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

Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

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

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

Everybody goes through some tough times in their life, no matter what you do. Man, I've had my tough times.

Adversity creates comedy.

I've been through a lot of stuff.

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.

I've been through a lot of struggles.

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.

The themes that make one laugh always stem from poverty, hunger, misery, old age, sickness, and death. These are the themes that make Italians laugh, anyway.

We're living in hard times.

Life is hard and it gets worse and worse and worse.

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

The truth is, everybody falls into an incinerator of some measure or other. Not literally one. The question is what are you going to do with those bad times? Are you just going to let them gnaw at you?