David Rakoff Quotes

In spite of the problems he was having he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don’t or won’t or can’t and plenty of them aren’t in prison either.

I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I've picked myself up and gone on.

I think life is very, very, very hard, and I've never had anything come super easy to me, no matter what people may think.

There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason.

Life, people learned, was not easy. Life was not cake. Life was not a carrot cake.

Sometimes I think life is just a rodeo, the trick is to ride and make it to the bell.

I've had much more down in my life than I've had up. And much more struggle. First of all, when I went into the film school everybody said, "What are you doing? This is a complete dead-end for a career."

Why is this happening to me? Why am I having such a difficult time? One answer is that life is supposed to be difficult! It’s what enables us to grow. Remember, earth is not heaven!

Without difficulties, life would be like a stream without rocks and curves – about as interesting as concrete. Without problems, there can be no personal growth, no group achievement, no progress of humanity. But what mattes about problems is what one does with them.

Sometimes it felt like her life was a series of falls from ever-greater heights.

The truth is, the world isn't easy for any of us. It never has been and it never will be.

Life did not present its sunny side to thee.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to have it so.

No one has ever said that life is to be easy. Only that it is to be lived.

life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough

Life is not always easy. And that is a major reason why it is so precious. Many of life's best rewards are possible only because you must work your way through difficult challenges to get to them. If everything in life were easy, there would be no opportunity for real fulfillment.

Suffering will come, trouble will come - that's part of life; a sign that you are alive. If you have no suffering and no trouble, the devil is taking it easy. You are in his hand.

Life is not going to be sweet all the time.

I have learned to kiss the waves that throw me up against the Rock of Ages.

Life's pretty tough . . . you're lucky if you live through it.

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

Everyone is dealing with something. This is life; this is not just a piece of cake.

What is life worth without trials and tribulations which are the salt of life.

Life has a way of kicking one along like a football, or so I've found. Fate had never dealt me personally a particularly easy time, but that was OK, that was normal. Most people, it seemed to me, took their turn to be football. Most survived. Some didn't.

I've had my ups and downs. My fair share of bumpy roads and heavy winds. That's what made me what I am today.