Life Is Hard Quotes

On hardship, and the perspective that softens it.

The same clever pushback shows up twice in this set — when someone sighs that life is hard, the reply is always the same: compared to what? A dancer's account of physical risk and injury grounds the idea in something concrete. See Easy for the contrast.


The closing line cuts through the self-pity angle entirely: life is hard, sure, but people tend to make it harder than it needs to be. Related reading: Always and End.