"By three in the afternoon, after one Bintang too many, I was absolutely smashed and feared that trying to stand may end badly."

Hardship, Alcohol, Failure, Fear, Consequence

30

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"By three in the afternoon, after one Bintang too many, I was absolutely smashed and feared that trying to stand may end badly."

Exlpore more Hardship quotes

"Bad and worse and worst makes a beggar's choice."

George R. R. Martin, American Author

Hardship, Choice, Poverty, Desperation, Decision

"The good times were over. Nobody gave a shit and nobody had any money and if they had any, they kept it."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Hardship, Poverty, Reality, Life

"The food we were given was no more than eatable, but the patron was not mean about drink; he allowed us two litres of wine a day each, knowing that if a plongeur is not given two litres he will steal three."

George Orwell, British Author

Hardship, Survival, Resilience, Humor, Work

"The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong."

Philip Emeagwali, Nigerian Scientist

Hardship, Living

"The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Hardship, Poverty, Busyness, Sorrow, Sentiment

"There is nothing worse than being broke and having your woman leave you. Nothing to drink, no job,just the walls, sitting there staring at the walls and thinking. That's how women got back at you, but it hurt and weakened them too. Or so I like to believe."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Hardship, Poverty, Heartbreak, Sadness, Loss

"Where there is less pain, there is also less pay."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

Hardship, Pain, Struggle, Values, Effort

"It is no surprise that the first and always unwelcome message of male initiation rites is LIFE ' IS ' HARD."

Richard Rohr, American Theologian

Hardship, Life, Truth, Struggle

"However, with a gut full of heroin, it's hard to be an optimist."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Hardship, Addiction, Optimism, Struggle, Mental Health

"He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation."

Charles Caleb Colton, English Writer

Hardship, Adversity, Suffering, Strength, Knowledge

Explore more quotes by S. A. Tawks

"Honestly, if I stay on this gruelling path, I'm going to end up as another suicide statistic."

Mental Health

"As much as I respect him, he is somewhat of an ignorant fool."

Judgment

"Could crushed spirit be destroyed if it encountered too much spirit?"

Spiritual

"Patience, persistence and hard work lead to success and happiness. Or you can do whatever the hell you want and with a bit or a whole lot of luck you'll stumble onto success and happiness."

Success

"You'll be making so much cash that you won't know what to waste it on."

Wealth

"I'd be somewhat of a lousy writer if I didn't know what to say."

Writing

"The only thing more interesting than the truth is fiction dressed up as the truth."

Philosophy

"I also smoked two cigarettes, which was pretty good considering I could have smoked five if I'd really tried."

Habit

"It's called the kindness of a fellow human being. You should try it sometime, ya fuck."

Kindness

"Your choice is your choice and you need to accept what happens, not shift the blame to someone else if it doesn't turn out your way."

Philosophy