Harrowing Quotes
Voices describing hardship faced with resilience
These quotes describe experiences that speakers call harrowing, yet frame with surprising steadiness. The subject connects with our experience quotes collection.
Personally, I had a close friend with cystic fibrosis. I won't ever forget how he handled himself. In the face of extreme challenges and very harrowing circumstances, he maintained a positive outlook and was just very dignified, even in his...
Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.
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I have much to say about the pain I've felt and seen inside of prison. It has been an eye-opening and harrowing experience.
Well, I stopped drinking. That was actually a big deal. I didn't go through any harrowing rock-bottom experience. I just made a decision to stop drinking.
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Let's start at the very end: The postscript of Stephen King's 'On Writing' contains some of the most harrowing pages he has ever written. It's here that King describes the traffic accident that nearly killed him in June 1999.
We can all tend to get caught up in the complications of life that we create; we live life for other people. It's a harrowing moment when you're confronted with an end, and you have to make the choice to...
When they ran out of cadre men they gave me my very own platoon and said, 'Here are 63 men, try to keep as many of them alive as you possibly can.' That was one of the more harrowing experiences...
For those of you looking for your action-packed read, check out 'Red Queen' by Victoria Aveyard and 'Vengeance Road' by Erin Bowman. One's a fantasy and one's a Western, but they both feature strong leading ladies and some harrowing twists!
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Several speakers emphasize maintaining a positive outlook even through genuinely difficult circumstances. For more on emotional depth, see our depth quotes page.
