Marcus Aurelius Quotes

Life is very hard, isn't it? It does kill you, after all.

Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.

Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

The child endures all things.

A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that.

Men can bear all things but good days.

Whenever we are inclined to feel burdened down with the blows of life, let us remember that others have passed the same way, have endured, and then have overcome.

I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life, and not too long to be downed by them.

If you bear the cross gladly, it will bear you.

There are some things you can only learn in a storm.

There is an art in taking the whiplash of suffering full in the face, an art you must learn. Let each single attack exhaust itself; pain always makes single attacks, so that its bite may be more intense, more concentrated. And you, while its fangs are implanted and injecting their venom at one spot, do not forget to offer it another place where it can bite you, and so relieve the pain of the first.

If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it.

That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.

Life as we find it is too hard for us; it entails too much pain, too many disappointments, impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative remedies.

If thou has a bundle of thorns in thy lot, there is no need to sit down on it.

The beginning of hardship is like the first taste of bitter food--it seems for a moment unbearable; yet, if there is nothing else to satisfy our hunger, we take another bite and find it possible to go on.

Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear and we all just do our best.

We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another.

I believe, indeed, that it is more laudable to suffer great misfortunes than to do great things.

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

I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.

Trouble and pain were what kept a man alive. Or trying to avoid trouble and pain. It was a full time job.

In life there are worse things (then being fired by the Miami Marlins) and I have experienced them. I have lived through bad moments and I will get through this with support.

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.

In my job, you expect to suffer. That's why when I go to hell one day, it will be less painful for me than you, because I'm used to suffering.