Hard Reality Quotes

Nobody asked to be born. Life is hard, kinda.

The world's not a very comfortable place if you have a nightmare to face.

What brings enlightenment is experience, in the sad sense of this word--the pressure of hard facts and unintelligible troubles, making a man rub his eyes in his waking dream, and put two and two together. Enlightenment is cold water.

Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it.

We have to work hard and not dream too much, because if we dream too much, we can fall down very quickly.

But I've never felt that being an actress is being in a comfortable place. It's seen from the outside that we're being driven in big cars and having these gorgeous suites and all of that. But come on, it's not about that.

"Comfort" is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being "comfortable".

... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne; there is no way out.

This was not a fearie tale. This was not the movies. This was life. It hurt more. It was excruciating. It was excruciatingly beautiful.

The sad truth is the truth is sad.

We live in a vale of tears...We can have all the dreams we like, but life is hard, implacable, sad.

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.

It's pretty sad when you have to choose between the lesser of two evils.

There are no painless solutions to this problem, but we’ve got to solve it.

Political Necessity!!!

People learned to live with the most unimaginable things.

Nothing teaches you like getting leveled. And I got leveled in my early 30s. Nothing went exactly the way I thought it would.

… a distasteful but vital necessity

Working backstage as a teenager made me realise there's not much glamour in this profession - just lots of hard work. That's a good thing to learn early on.

How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?

I don't want to make people feel better.

The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they're things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it's only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don't love you, but your momma does and so do I.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

There is no such thing in life as no pain and no disappointment.

Sometimes you almost have to laugh to keep from crying to deal with the pain associated with the 'hood.