What is trouble?

Famous quotes containing the word trouble:

“The trouble is that no devastating or redeeming fires have ever burnt in my life.... My life began by flickering out.”
—Ivan Goncharov (1812–1891)

“The trouble with life isn’t that there is no answer, it’s that there are so many answers.”
—Ruth Benedict (1887–1948)

“See, they return; ah, see the tentative
Movements, and the slow feet,
The trouble in the pace and the uncertain
Wavering!”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)