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To be, or not to be – that is the question.
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? – To die – to sleep –
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to; ’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To die – to sleep –
To sleep! Perchance to dream. Aye, there’s the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause. There’s the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law’s delay,
The insolence of office...’ William Shakespeare, Hamlet, III i 56-73
Trouble seemed to find us at any given point. Noel Gallagher, Oasis: Supersonic, BBC 2018
Patience is the best remedy for every trouble. Plautus
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? John Keats
Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another’s trouble,
Courage in your own. Adam Lindsay Gordon, Ye Wearie Wayfarer, 1866
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. Bertrand Russell
It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. Mark Twain
Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard. Robert Frost
I heard at Etten that you’d sent me fifty Francs. Well I’ve accepted them with reluctance of course but I’m in trouble and what else can I do? And so I’m writing to thank you. Vincent van Gogh, letter to brother Theo
I don’t mind a reasonable amount of trouble. The Maltese Falcon 1941 starring Humphrey Bogart & Mary Astor & Gladys George & Peter Lorre & Barton MacLane & Lee Patrick & Sydney Greenstreet & Ward Bond & Jerome Cowan & Elisha Cook junior et al, director John Huston, Spade to Ruth
That’s the trouble with this country. Its morals are all shot. I mean, look at the young people. Girls throwing cigarettes right out into the street, and rocking in the back street of a car, and wearing skirts so short you can see everything they’ve got. The Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre 1967 starring George Seagal & Jason Robards & Ralph Meeker & Jack Nicholson & Jean Hale & Jan Merlin & Clint Ritchie & David Canary & Harold J Stone et al, director Roger Corman, Capone
I’m in trouble. Big trouble. Subway in the Sky 1959 starring Van Johnson & Hildegarde Knef & Albert Lieven & Cec Linder & Katherine Kath & Vivian Matalon & Carl Jaffe & Michael Bell & James Maxwell et al, director Muriel Box
Just leave us alone. You never brought nothing but trouble. Dead End 1937 starring Sylvia Sidney & Joel McCrea & Humphrey Bogart & Wendy Barrie & Claire Trevor & Allen Jenkins et al, director William Wyler, mother
For a moment there I thought we were in trouble. Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid 1969 starring Robert Redford & Paul Newman & Katharine Ross & Strother Martin & Henry Jones & Jeff Corey & George Furth & Cloris Leachman & Ted Cassidy & Kenneth Mars et al, director George Roy Hill, Butch
He’s in pretty big trouble, lady. Saboteur 1942 starring Robert Cummings & Priscilla Lane & Otto Kruger & Alan Baxter & Clem Bevans & Norman Lloyd & Alma Kruger & Vaughan Glaser & Ian Wolfe & Dorothy Peterson & Selmer Jackson et al, director Alfred Hitchcock, rozzers at door
Q! We agreed you would never trouble my ship again. Star Trek: The Next Generation s2e16: Q Who, Picard
I don’t want any trouble here, Barclay. Because wherever you go, trouble follows. Star Trek: The Next Generation s3e21: Hollow Pursuits, holodeck Guigan
Mark my words, there’s going to be trouble. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s1e18: Dramatis Personae, Sisko to Odo
I need to find her, constable. I think she may be in some kind of trouble. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s2e9: Second Sight, Sisko to Odo
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. Ernest Benn
Laugh and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and your weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Solitude
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble. George Washington
Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. Job 5:7
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. Job 14:1
The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee. Psalms 20:1
Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly. Psalms 31:9
I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. Psalms 38:6
Let not your heart be troubled. John 14:1
I don’t go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me. J K Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. Benjamin Franklin
There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble. Anton Chekhov, The Portable Chekhov: The Mill
In a world where the dead have returned to life, the word trouble loses much of its meaning. Dennis Hopper
We are at the end of all our troubles, and at the beginning of happiness. Voltaire, Candide
The thoughts of others
Were light and fleeting,
Of lovers’ meeting
Or luck or fame.
Mine were of trouble,
And mine were steady;
So I was ready
When trouble came. A E Housman