Rough Quotes

“I want to see the thirst
inside the syllables
I want to touch the fire
in the sound:
I want to feel the darkness
of the cry. I want
words as rough
as virgin rocks.” - Verb.”
― Pablo Neruda

“Sure it could get rough sometimes, but life wasn't a Hollywood movie. Shit happened. You fought, you screamed, and somehow you worked like hell to get out the other side still intact.”
― Samantha Young, On Dublin Street

“With callused hands
i tasted
the softness of the moon

in the coldest winds
i discovered
my soul's
warmest fireplace

in the roughness
of his stubble
the tenderest love.”
― Sanober Khan, A Thousand Flamingos

“He’s not a rough diamond - a pearl-containing oyster of a rustic; he’s a fierce, pitiless, wolfish man.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Life is so full of rough edges - small tasks and expectations that scratch you bloody and remind you that you're naked and alone.”
― Alexis Hall, Waiting for the Flood

“Fantasy, an unflagging optimism is necessary for a writer at all stages of this rough game. A kind of madness is therefore necessary, when there is every logical reason for a state of depression and discouragement. Perhaps the fact that I can react with utter gloom to this is what keeps me from being psychotic and keeps me merely neurotic. I am doing quite a good day's work today. But I am also aware of the madness that actually sustains me, and I am not made more comfortable or happy by it.”
― Patricia Highsmith

“It was too big to be called a sword. Massive, thick, heavy, and far too rough. Indeed, it was a heap of raw iron.”
― Kentaro Miura, Berserk, Vol. 1

“Ever notice the word 'rough' in through? There is truth to that, though the way may be rough, we are still able to get through it.”
― Anthony Liccione

“There will always be rough days and easy ones. Like a ship, we must sail through both.”
― Nabil N. Jamal

“Sometimes the stories are rough on the details.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“An exceptional Sensei has traits such as patience and integrity. Otherwise, natural fighting ability, cruelty and aggressive behavior may be observed in most animal predators.”
― Soke Behzad Ahmadi, CHOKI MOTOBU Original MMA Fighter

“All roads were one, surely, even if their textures differed.
Was she as varied, a part of herself as rough and tutted as the Goreddi roads, and some other part as efficient as the Ninysh? She often felt, early in the morning, when the world seemed most malleable, that she contained these potentials, and more.
It wasn’t merely that she could be anything, but that she was everything, all at once.”
― Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road

“The right path is characterised by rough road.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“I fell for you when you were Shy’s and if you think that now, when you need me most, now, when I finally got a clear shot, I’m givin’ up, think again, Rosie.”
― Kristen Ashley, Rough Ride

“The road to success is never a smooth path.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“I've loved trees so fondly, to be fearful of their rough embrace”
― Jazz Feylynn

“Difficult times help us understand who is a good friend and who is just a friend.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“an unbearably tense and disorienting paradox that underscores everyday life in a working-class environment—on the one hand it’s an abrasive and in-your-face world, yet, at the same time, much of it seems extrinsic and is perpetually uninvolving. One is relentlessly overwhelmed and understimulated all at the same time.”
― Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19

“It's one thing to be bitter about the circumstances of your birth, but another to drill your bitterness into the head of someone going through a rough time.”
― Kayla Krantz, The Council

“We are the road that winds down a sound mind, then slips into the sea.”
― Anthony Liccione

“The change happens... the moment when you start putting harsh and rough actions ON... just start doing the rough action... take it... fucking take it!”
― Deyth Banger

“There is nothing called 'bad or rough weather'! It is just 'weather'. The cyclone, earthquake, rainfall etc. are normal processes of nature. Ironically, if they occur, we call them 'bad'!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“খারাপ বা বাজে আবহাওয়া বলে কিছুই নেই! এটা শুধুই ‘আবহাওয়া’। ঘূর্ণিঝড়, ভূমিকম্প, বৃষ্টিপাত ইত্যাদি স্বাভাবিক প্রাকৃতিক প্রক্রিয়া। বিদ্রূপাত্মকভাবে, যখন সেগুলো ঘটে, আমরা সেগুলোকে বলি ‘খারাপ’!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“He made fun of his mother's rough palms. She laughed it off, knowing that the roughness her palms earned were now worth her son's smiles.. :)”
― Nitya Prakash

“The road to success is rough and tough, you boil and toil but you finally smile in style.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“Poetry has to be as hasty and rough as eating, sleep or sex.”
― Thomas Pynchon, V.

“Sometimes, it’s not about right or wrong, it’s about friendship.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“The greatest gift a coach can give a player is to make him or her better. And when a coach is calling a player out or pointing out flaws, though it feels rough, it’s because coaches see potential.”
― Jen Welter, Play Big: Conquer Your Fears and Make Your Dreams a Reality - Lessons from the First Woman to Coach in the NFL

“Her voice was rough but it had some sweet flavour, like Christmas cake with stones in it.”
― Sally Andrew, Recipes for Love and Murder

“When the road gets really rough, lean on Him even more. He is still The Way!”
― TemitOpe Ibrahim