Hardness Quotes

“To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“You can't tell how heavy somebody else's load is just from looking. The Lord doesn't give us more than we can carry”
― Lalita Tademy, Cane River

“Reaching too deep into something not meant for you is full of pain. Figure out what you can have and work on that”
― Lalita Tademy, Cane River

“She's the type to turn hardship into hardness, like a shield for people she loves.”
― Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby

“أقسى من القسوة على اناس : ألا تبالي بهم”
― أنيس منصور, لحظات مسروقة

“A hardness to change reveals a hardness of heart.”
― Gary Rohrmayer

“Life is flinching in the midst of breathing, gasping at the thought of dying. It’s climbing ropeless up sheer rock faces, groping for the next finger-hole of hope. Steady on! Only a thousand feet to go and after that a jungle, a minefield, a rapids. (Can I stop smiling now?)
Once, not long ago, I was flung off the cliff of the moment, thrust into an illicit relationship with destiny, an affair not of my making. Was I making love or being raped? The lines were fuzzy.”
― Chila Woychik, On Being a Rat and Other Observations

“Love softens the hardest edges of life's tumult.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“Only hardship softens the hardness of the human heart.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“I’m a man of stone - and my hands are not soft enough to brush away, each stray wisp of hair”
― john j geddes

“The days which bracketed hurricanes were painful in their clarity, sharp edge clouds, blue sky hard as a cop's eyes.”
― N.K. Jemisin, How Long 'til Black Future Month?

“The holiness of the gospel softens the hardness of the heart.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Hardest created thing is the Stone. Iron is even harder than Stone since it cuts the Stone. Fire is even harder than Iron since it can melt the Iron. Water is even harder than Fire since it can extinguish it. Clouds are even harder than Water since they move it around. Winds are even harder than Clouds since they move the Clouds around. Yet Angel who dispatches the Wind is harder than the Wind itself. And the Angel of Death is even harder than the Angel which dispatches the Winds since it can take away its life. And Death is even harder than the Angel of Death, since it takes away the Angel of Death. Yet harder than all these is the order of God - the Lord of the Two Worlds - which can take away death itself.”
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“Things they tell you before you were born (in case you were wondering why a lot of this stuff seems vaguely familiar) 1. Life will bump up against you & it'll be awhile before you stop taking it personally but the sooner you do that, the easier it gets. 2. It's all about Love. Even the parts you decide are really hard. 3. You're not going to have to do this alone, but you're going to take awhile to figure that out, too, especially if you end up in America.”
― Brian Andreas, Theories of Everything

“Halleck came from people who regarded a slight change of facial expression as adequate to convey the pain of a severed limb.”
― Miles Watson, Sinner's Cross

“She was very big and she was disquietingly fluid--fluid without, however, being able to flow. I felt a hardness and a constriction in her, a grave distrust, created already by too many men like me ever to be conquered now.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“It's impossible to imagine my mother like that. I cannot imagine her softened, thawed, decayed, becoming sweeter as she spoils. I imagine her trapped in a mirror instead. A permanent image of her locked into a rectangle of hard brightness, open-eyed.”
― Laura Kasischke, White Bird in a Blizzard

“Sirs, so much as your hearts as is empty of Christ and heaven, let it be filled with shame and sorrow, and not with ease (483).”
― Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest

“A heart of love softens any hardness.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Hardship softens the hardness of heart.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Living in itself isn't hard. Living without having to breathe hard is what's truly hard.”
― Allda Pudota, Shambala Sect

“ما أصعب أن تُسوّد ورقة بكلمات حَريّة أن تُقرا”
― Mikhail Naimy, كرم على درب

“The hardness of the fall will be determined by the hardness of the questions that we refused to ask.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Yet she could feel a hard, tight knot of anger and hate forming within her as she walked along. She decided to walk home, hoping that the anger would evaporate on the way. She moved in long, swift strides. There was a hard sound to her heels clicking against the sidewalk and she tried to make it louder. Hard, hard, hard. That was the only way to be--so hard that nothing, the street, the house, the people--nothing would ever be able to touch her.”
― Ann Petry, The Street

“The rapids only take because you have to learn how to pull through.”
― Dominic Riccitello