„Being human is difficult. Some people make it more difficult than others. I was one of those people.“

„There are plenty of people more «difficult» than me. “

—  Alan Rickman English film, television and stage actor 1946 - 2016

„Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult.“

—  Richard Stallman American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project 1953

1980s, GNU Manifesto (1985)

„Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.“

—  Neil Gaiman, libro American Gods

Origine: American Gods (2001), Ch. 3
Contesto: Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.

„There is no such thing as a weird human being. It's just that some people require more understanding than others.“

—  Tom Robbins, libro Another Roadside Attraction

Another Roadside Attraction (1971)

„To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others“

—  George Orwell English author and journalist 1903 - 1950

„If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.“

—  Montesquieu French social commentator and political thinker 1689 - 1755

As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts : Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors, Both Ancient and Modern (1891) edited by Tryon Edwards.

„It's not important to me to make other people at ease. I am difficult, but that's 'cause I don’t really give a fuck.“

—  Amy Winehouse English singer and songwriter 1983 - 2011

Blender, Almost Famous: Amy Winehouse http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?ID=2565&src=cl44, April 2007

„In difficult times, in dark times, some people shine.“

—  Cassandra Clare American author 1973

„People who don't know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.“

—  Aaron Sorkin American screenwriter, producer, playwright 1961

The West Wing Script Book: Volume 1, Introduction.

„People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.“

—  Rick Riordan, libro The Battle of the Labyrinth

Origine: The Battle of the Labyrinth

„But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult part of it was deciding who the people were, and who were the rats.“

—  Terry Pratchett English author 1948 - 2015

Origine: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

„It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.“

—  George Bernard Shaw, Saint Joan

Preface http://books.google.com/books?id=T70Ahd88jSMC&q=%22It+is+difficult+if+not+impossible+for+most+people+to+think+otherwise+than+in+the+fashion+of+their+own+period%22&pg=PA46#v=onepage to Saint Joan: A Chronicle Play In Six Scenes And An Epilogue (1923)
1920s

„The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.“

—  José Saramago, libro Cecità

Origine: Blindness (1995), p. 284

„There are a lot of people that I find it difficult to like.“

—  Martin Luther King, Jr. American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement 1929 - 1968

1950s, Loving Your Enemies (November 1957)
Contesto: The Greek language comes out with another word for love. It is the word agape. …agape is something of the understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill for all men. It is a love that seeks nothing in return. It is an overflowing love; it’s what theologians would call the love of God working in the lives of men. And when you rise to love on this level, you begin to love men, not because they are likeable, but because God loves them. You look at every man, and you love him because you know God loves him. And he might be the worst person you’ve ever seen. And this is what Jesus means, I think, in this very passage when he says, "Love your enemy." And it’s significant that he does not say, "Like your enemy." Like is a sentimental something, an affectionate something. There are a lot of people that I find it difficult to like. I don’t like what they do to me. I don’t like what they say about me and other people. I don’t like their attitudes. I don’t like some of the things they’re doing. I don’t like them. But Jesus says love them. And love is greater than like. Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody, because God loves them. You refuse to do anything that will defeat an individual, because you have agape in your soul. And here you come to the point that you love the individual who does the evil deed, while hating the deed that the person does. This is what Jesus means when he says, "Love your enemy." This is the way to do it. When the opportunity presents itself when you can defeat your enemy, you must not do it.

„We should be inspired by people… who show that human beings can be kind, brave, generous, beautiful, strong-even in the most difficult circumstances.“

—  Rachel Corrie American anti-war and human rights activist 1979 - 2003

„It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.“

—  E.M. Forster, libro Camera con vista

Origine: A Room with a View (1908), Ch.1

„No doubt there are plenty of people in this world whom it is difficult to drive, but whom anybody can lead. It is well known that people who are generally most difficult to drive, are usually the most easily to be led by others who understand them.“

—  William Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley Lord Chancellor of Great Britain 1801 - 1881

Turner v. Collins (1871), L. R. 7 Ch. Ap. Ca. 340.

„Modern life is very difficult for people who are unprepared. But this new environment will eventually facilitate more realistic relationships between people.“

—  Michelangelo Antonioni Italian film director and screenwriter 1912 - 2007

Encountering Directors interview (1969)

„Perhaps; but I am a difficult person to live with. My difficulty consists in not wanting to live with other people.“

—  J.M. Coetzee, libro Summertime

Origine: Summertime