Quotes about trouble page 4
“I won't go looking for trouble. I usually don't have too.”
Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief
Source: The Lightning Thief
“Yep.” Eloquence ’R’ Us. When in trouble, keep it monosyllabic—safer that way.”
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Strikes
John Steinbeck book Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“The Creator made women to please the eye and trouble the mind.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer
Two Rivers saying
(15 October 1993)
Source: The Wheel of Time: Boxed Set
“Let's save tomorrow's troubles for tomorrow.”
Patricia Briggs (1965) American writer
Source: Raven's Shadow
John Steinbeck book The Grapes of Wrath
Variant: If you're in trouble or hurt or need–go to poor people. They're the only ones that'll help–the only ones.
Source: The Grapes of Wrath
Jennifer Ashley (1974) American author
Source: The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie
“Do not trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.”
Robert Jordan The Shadow Rising
A saying in Maule, Tear
The Shadow Rising (15 September 1992)
Sherman Alexie book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
“If the eyes are the window to the soul, then Edward's in trouble 'cause no one is home.”
Laurell K. Hamilton book Obsidian Butterfly
Source: Obsidian Butterfly
“The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.”
William Golding book Lord of the Flies
Source: Lord of the Flies
Craig Ferguson (1962) Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice a…
“She had the best kind of courage, or maybe the worst kind, the kind that gets you into trouble.”
Alistair MacLean (1922–1987) Scottish novelist
Source: Fear is the Key
“He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim.”
Rita Mae Brown (1944) Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist
Haruki Murakami book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
“Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.”
Harry Truman (1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)
Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha
Source: Memoirs of a Geisha
“My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire.”
Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist
“You are a great deal of trouble, Jace Herondale”
Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“The trouble with conspiracies is that they rot internally.”
Robert A. Heinlein book The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Source: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
“My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.”
Louis-ferdinand Céline book Death on Credit
Source: Death on the Installment Plan
“The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Widely attributed to Shaw, this quotation is actually of unknown origin.
Misattributed
Variant: She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
“Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.”
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
“Never trouble trouble, till trouble troubles you”
Katie Fforde (1952) British novelist (1952-)
Second Thyme Around
“How easy it is to be compassionate when it's yourself you see in trouble.”
Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582) Roman Catholic saint
Source: The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus (c.1565), Ch. XXV. "Divine Locutions. Discussions on That Subject" ¶ 26 & 27
Variant translation: I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
Source: The Life of Saint Teresa of Ávila by Herself
Context: May it please His Majesty that we fear Him whom we ought to fear, and understand that one venial sin can do us more harm than all hell together; for that is the truth. The evil spirits keep us in terror, because we expose ourselves to the assaults of terror by our attachments to honours, possessions, and pleasures. For then the evil spirits, uniting themselves with us, — we become our own enemies when we love and seek what we ought to hate, — do us great harm. We ourselves put weapons into their hands, that they may assail us; those very weapons with which we should defend ourselves. It is a great pity. But if, for the love of God, we hated all this, and embraced the cross, and set about His service in earnest, Satan would fly away before such realities, as from the plague. He is the friend of lies, and a lie himself. He will have nothing to do with those who walk in the truth. When he sees the understanding of any one obscured, he simply helps to pluck out his eyes; if he sees any one already blind, seeking peace in vanities, — for all the things of this world are so utterly vanity, that they seem to be but the playthings of a child, — he sees at once that such a one is a child; he treats him as a child, and ventures to wrestle with him — not once, but often.
May it please our Lord that I be not one of these; and may His Majesty give me grace to take that for peace which is really peace, that for honour which is really honour, and that for delight which is really a delight. Let me never mistake one thing for another — and then I snap my fingers at all the devils, for they shall be afraid of me. I do not understand those terrors which make us cry out, Satan, Satan! when we may say, God, God! and make Satan tremble. Do we not know that he cannot stir without the permission of God? What does it mean? I am really much more afraid of those people who have so great a fear of the devil, than I am of the devil himself. Satan can do me no harm whatever, but they can trouble me very much, particularly if they be confessors. I have spent some years of such great anxiety, that even now I am amazed that I was able to bear it. Blessed be our Lord, who has so effectually helped me!
Lora Leigh (1965) American writer
Source: Wicked Pleasure
“The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.”
Lily Tomlin (1939) American actress, comedian, writer, and producer
Contributions of Jane Wagner
Alexis De Tocqueville book Democracy in America
Book Three, Chapter XXI.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Three
“Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.”
Edith Wharton book The House of Mirth
Source: The House of Mirth
“You intend to kiss me and yet you are going to all this damn trouble about it.”
William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer
Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games
Katniss Everdeen, Rue's song, p. 235
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games (2008)
Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell
Variant: It doesn't matter,” said Adrian, smiling. He rested a hand on my shoulder. “Some things are worth the trouble.
Source: The Indigo Spell
“We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.”
Simone Weil (1909–1943) French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
Ella Wheeler Wilcox book Poems of Passion
Solitude
Poetry quotes
Source: Poems of Passion
Context: Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone.
For this brave 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.
Louis L'Amour (1908–1988) Novelist, short story writer
Source: The Daybreakers
“Donit kill her now, just when we've gone to all that trouble to rescue her," said Jeffrey.”
Jeanne Birdsall (1951) American children's writer
Source: The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy
Carl Sagan book The Demon-Haunted World
Source: The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995), Ch. 11 : The Dragon in My Garage, p. 180
Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Context: I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble. Really, it's okay to reserve judgment until the evidence is in.
“If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes.”
Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora
Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora
“Always expect trouble in the desert. Then you usually won't meet it.”
John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower
Source: Erak's Ransom
“I have lots of ideas. Trouble is, most of them suck.”
George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian