#trouble

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be. ↗

— Charles Reade

#dark #expect #fancy #joys #nor

In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#among #away #europe #happened #ii

Staying with detractors is like sleeping in a room located just behind the public toilet. You will never feel comfortable until you relocate. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#change-your-life #comfortable #detractors #dislike #enemies

Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after a while that they are illusions and we are deeply shocked when reality is torn down around us. ↗

— J.G. Ballard

#normalcy #the-trouble-with-forgetting #life

Save your skin from the corrosive acids from the mouths of toxic people. Someone who just helped you to speak evil about another person can later help another person to speak evil about you. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#bad #corrosive #destroyers #destruction #detractors

We don't shoot somebody soon, I'm gonna forget how ↗

— Dave Barry

#funny #humor #leonard #trouble #funny

Whenever you look back and say "if" you know you're in trouble. There is no such thing as "if". The only thing that matters is what really happened. ↗

— D.J. MacHale

#importance #trouble #death

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. ↗

— Walt Disney

#best #had #happens #i #kick

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. Sing, and the hills will answer; Sigh, it is lost on the air; The echoes bound to a joyful sound, But shrink from voicing care. Rejoice, and men will seek you; Grieve, and they turn and go; They want full measure of all your pleasure, But they do not need your woe. Be glad, and your friends are many; Be sad, and you lose them all,— There are none to decline your nectared wine, But alone you must drink life’s gall. Feast, and your halls are crowded; Fast, and the world goes by. Succeed and give, and it helps you live, But no man can help you die. There is room in the halls of pleasure For a large and lordly train, But one by one we must all file on Through the narrow aisles of pain. ↗

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#laugh #mirth #pain #trouble #life

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, but that there are so many answers ↗

— Ruth Benedict

#life #trouble #life