Jerome K. Jerome Quotes

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

Everybody's got their troubles.

Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

There are very few certainties that touch us all in this mortal experience, but one of the absolutes is that we will experience hardship and stress at some point.

Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end.

All life is a test one way or the other.

We are born to trouble; and we may depend upon it, whilst we live in this world, we shall have it, though with intermissions.

All life is a struggle in the dark.

I've had my ups and downs. My fair share of bumpy roads and heavy winds. That's what made me what I am today.

Our ingress into the world Was naked and bare; Our progress through the world Is trouble and care.

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

Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.

Life has ups and it has downs. I don't care who you are.

Trouble and pain were what kept a man alive. Or trying to avoid trouble and pain. It was a full time job.

There's no easy quick way out, we're gonna have to live through our whole lives, win, lose, or draw.

Suffering will come, trouble will come - that's part of life; a sign that you are alive. If you have no suffering and no trouble, the devil is taking it easy. You are in his hand.

Life for most of us is full of steep stairs to go up and later, shaky stairs to totter down; and very early in the history of stairs must have come the invention of bannisters.

"Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards." In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should we be able to "fly upwards".

It's good to have some certainty in life, even if it's only that I'm in deep trouble.

Life is very hard, isn't it? It does kill you, after all.

The harvest of the Lord’s field is seldom ripened by sunshine only. It must go through its days of wind, rain and storm.

Adversity in the things of this world opens the door for spiritual salvation.

I'll always push myself because that's the journey of life. We do go through things. Some of it's incredibly great and some of it's really bad.

I knew I was in trouble, but I thought I was in hell.

Life is an irritation.