shared hardship Quotes

The rain does not fall on one roof alone

The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything - meals, jobs, clothing.

My whole thing has always been as long as everybody else is going through it, I can go through it as well.

A lady of 47 who has been married 27 years and has six children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: 'Love is what you've been through with somebody'.

Trouble's made us kin.

We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.

Suffering is easier to endure when shared.

I do feel like all the people I meet, all the people I'm in discussions with, if I'm working with somebody, I sense the same energy that everybody is suffering from the same predicament.

I go through the same trials and tribulations as anyone else.

Your loss we count as our loss. Your struggle we take as our struggle.

The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.

Hardship brings people closer together if you share it.

I have suffered most of the things I write about - or my friends have.

Having an awful landlord can be a good thing, it can bring you together as a household.

A difficult situation, not for one individual, but for everybody

There were no "unemployed" in the impoverished Polish countryside before the Second World War. Not a single unemployed. Every child that was born in the peasant family had his room at the table and his job in the field, stable or pigsty... If there was not enough food, everybody got less. If food was plentiful, everybody ate better. In such a setting, we may say, the problem of security couldn't even arise... One was born with life-long rights; the only thing that one could not do was to change them. A setting good on the side of security, though bad on the side of freedom.

Only those who went hungry with me and stood by me when I went through a bad time at some point in life will eat at my table.

I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.

I think the thing that has always made me happy is being in the struggle, in a community of struggle with other people.

There now exists a factor which was formerly lacking - the spirit of the nation has been aroused, and a common misfortune, a common debasement, has united all the inhabitants of the Islands.

There are no bonds so strong as those which are formed by suffering together

You're not the only one falling

I don't know if I'd want to be comforted, if I'm being honest. If I'm being forced to eat soot, I want to know that somewhere else in the world, someone else has to eat soot as well. I want to know that soot tastes terrible. I don't want to be told that soot's good for the digestion. And of course, by soot, I mean beans.

One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.

No adversity is in kind or degree peculiar to us; but if we survey the conditions of other men (of our brethren everywhere, of our neighbours all about us), and compare our case with theirs, we shall find that we have many consorts and associates in adversity, most as ill, many far worse bestead than ourselves; whence it must be a great fondness and perverseness to be displeased that we are not exempted from, but exposed to bear a share in the common troubles and burdens of mankind.