Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.

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

There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.

Life is really hard for some people.

I'm not at all interested in the brave who fight against the odds and win. I am interested in those who accept their lot, as that is what many people in the world are doing. They do their best in ghastly conditions.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

I received a letter from a lad asking me for an easy berth. To this I replied: You cannot be an editor; do not try the law; do not think of the ministry; let alone all ships and merchandise; abhor politics; don't practice medicine; be not a farmer or a soldier or a sailor; don't study, don't think. None of these are easy. O, my son, you have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave!

Life must pass through difficulty in order to achieve any modicum of beauty.

The truth of the matter is that all we have to do is live long enough and we will suffer.

Everything's been a struggle for me.

My life is a struggle.

There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it.

There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.

I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.

Life is one long struggle in the dark.

These times are so hard, and they're getting even harder.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

Life is supposed to get tough.

Walking through this life really is walking through fire.

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

Dying, dying, someone told me just recently, dying is easy. Living is hard. for everyone.

No cross no crown.

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Human life is too difficult for people.