"Men seem to be born with a debt they can never pay no matter how hard they try."
Read quote
3 likes
Trying quotes
Trying
18.3K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Trying
Browse quotes that often appear alongside trying — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Trying quotes (page 188 of 917)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for they can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain."
Read quote
3 likes
"I'm not even born yet. I'm still trying. I'm still pushing. I don't ever want to get to a place where I feel satisfied."
Read quote
3 likes
"I think, for me as an actor, if you get to a place where you're satisfied, you're happy with it, then you're dead. It's over. You're not hungry anymore. You won't try things anymore."
Read quote
3 likes
"For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw."
Read quote
3 likes
"It isn't a matter of hope. It's a matter of - between the options of trying nothing and trying something, let's try something but let's also be very thoughtful about what that something is."
Read quote
3 likes
"Once you start backing into all of that, then you see this incredibly intricate, totally wrong-headed way to do things, but nevertheless has a lot of merit to it for the fact that [Buckminster Fuller] is recognizing much larger patterns, seeking much larger patterns and seeking much larger ways of trying to solve for the problem of unhygienic conditions in slums. They really were unhygienic. Whether his family was living in the slum is debatable but they were unhygienic. That needed to be addressed. He was attempting to address it."
Read quote
3 likes
"I'm not especially interested in the job of the historian or journalist of trying to figure out what was true and what was not."
Read quote
3 likes
"I was interested first of all in trying to capture this myth that was always changing and to create some sort of a master story, some version of the myth that resonated with me, since I could have taken more or less any detail that I wanted or the opposite and try to put that down on the page in a way that I could express from that outset for myself and for our readers what it was that was so magical about [Buckminster] Fuller's way of putting together the world."
Read quote
3 likes
"I definitely try to mix humour into anything I do, even if it is into a drama."
Read quote
3 likes
"I don't get writer's block. I don't try to write anything; when something comes, I write it. I just practice and when I get an idea I write it down."
Read quote
3 likes
"I write to try to understand, and because I have nothing better to do."
Read quote
3 likes
"We are so afraid of the idea of having to die... that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were asking beforehand to be excused when it is our turn."
Read quote
3 likes
"...we confidently say that it's not worth trying to reach any conclusions merely because we decide to stop halfway along the path that would lead us straight to them."
Read quote
3 likes
"I have been called romantic. Well, that can't be helped. But stay. I seem to remember that I have been called a realist also. And as that charge too can be made out, let us try to live up to it, at whatever cost, for a change."
Read quote
3 likes
"Someone had to do something sometime. Every victim was a culprit, every culprit a victim, and somebody had to stand up sometime to try to break the lousy chain of inherited habit that was imperiling them all."
Read quote
3 likes
"Hasn't it ever occurred to you that in your promiscuous pursuit of women you are merely trying to assuage your subconscious fears of sexual impotence?" "Yes, sir, it has." "Then why do you do it?" "To assuage my fears of sexual impotence."
Read quote
3 likes
"I am never happy with what I do, so I try not to watch stuff that is filmed with me in it because I am always like, "Oh, I could have done that a little bit better," or, "I could have done that differently - that riff could have been a little better.""
Read quote
3 likes
"Failure isn't really an option because, as my grandmother used to say, "Nothing beats a failure but a try.""
Read quote
3 likes
"Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else."
Read quote
3 likes