Trouble Quotes

The trouble with fiction... is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

Aldous Huxley

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it

Terry Pratchett

I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.

J.K. Rowling

It is not the sale of my soul that troubles me: I have sold it too often to care about that. I have sold it for a professorship. I have sold it for an income.... What is all human conduct but the daily and hourly sale of our souls for trifles?

George Bernard Shaw

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

Ambrose Bierce

There can't be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

Henry Kissinger

Opportunity's favorite disguise is trouble.

Frank Tyger

Some women like to sit down with trouble as if it were knitting.

Ellen Glasgow

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

Voltaire

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

Mahatma Gandhi

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? I cannot be indifferent to the troubles of a man who advised me in my trouble, and attended me in my illness.

George Eliot

You can't run from trouble, there ain't no place that far.

Splash Mountain

You worldly-minded people are most unfortunate! You are surrounded with sorrows and troubles overhead and underfoot and to the right and to the left, and you are enigmas even to yourselves.

Leo Tolstoy

This is what I see, and what troubles me. I look on all sides, and everywhere I see nothing but obscurity. Nature offers me nothing that is not a matter of doubt and disquiet.

Blaise Pascal

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

George Bernard Shaw

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say: meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it, and had better be on speaking terms with it.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Calamity is virtue's opportunity.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man.

Henry Mackenzie

I don't think there would be many jokes, if there weren't constant frustration and fear and so forth. It's a response to bad troubles like crime.

Kurt Vonnegut