39 Trouble Quotes To Inspire

Trouble is an inevitable part of life, challenging us to navigate through its murky waters and emerge stronger on the other side. Whether we encounter obstacles in our personal lives, careers, or relationships, it's our resilience and perspective that determine how we overcome them. To help you find motivation and insight, we've curated a collection of the top 39 trouble quotes. These timeless words of wisdom from renowned figures can provide solace, inspire action, and remind us that even in our darkest moments, there’s a silver lining waiting to be discovered.

1. “I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.” - Katie McGarry

2. “If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.” - Cormac McCarthy

3. “It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.” - Ian Fleming

4. “Withdraw, like a turtle, into a hard yet harmless shell, ornamented with beautiful memories of the past.from the book 'I Know Who You Are!” - Mariam and Fatima Masood

5. “the more you stared up crap the more it's going to smell (/)” - Mary Sumner

6. “Whenever you look back and say "if" you know you're in trouble. There is no such thing as "if". The only thing that matters is what really happened.” - D.J. MacHale

7. “Waddya want me to do? through my sling shot at him?” - Hughes

8. “No, no, I never mess around.” - Rick Riordan

9. “I sat down on the edge of a deep soft chair and looked at Mrs Regan. She was worth a stare. She was trouble.” - Raymond Chandler

10. “I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.” - Karl Lagerfeld

11. “It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself out of, if one assumes that everything will, somehow or other, work out for the best.” - Neil Gaiman

12. “In a world where the dead have returned to life, the word" trouble' loses much of its meaning.” - Dennis Hopper

13. “The thoughts of othersWere light and fleeting,Of lovers' meetingOr luck or fame.Mine were of trouble,And mine were steady;So I was readyWhen trouble came.” - A.E. Housman

14. “My name is Percy Jackson. I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding student at Yancy Academy, a private school for troubled kids in upstate New York.Am I a troubled kid?Yeah. You could say that.” - Rick Riordan

15. “There had been a problem in Bean's house. The problem was staples. Bean loved staples. She loved them so much that she had stapled things that weren't supposed to be stapled. The things looked better stapled, but her mother didn't think so, and now Bean was outside.She was going to be outside for a long time.” - Annie Barrows

16. “Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.” - Arlene Francis

17. “The trouble with lifeisn't that there is no answer,but that there are so many answers” - Ruth Benedict

18. “Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable.” - Stevie Smith

19. “Man was designed in a way in which he must eat in order to give him a solid reason to go to work everyday. This helps to keep him out of trouble. God is wise.” - Criss Jami

20. “The snag in this business of falling in love, aged relative, is that the parties of the first part so often get mixed up with the wrong parties of the second part, robbed of their cooler judgement by the party of the second part's glamour. Put it like this: the male sex is divided into rabbits and non-rabbits and the female sex into dashers and dormice, and the trouble is that the male rabbit has a way of getting attracted by the female dasher (who would be fine for the non-rabbit) and realizing too late that he ought to have been concentrating on some mild, gentle dormouse with whom he could settle down peacefully and nibble lettuce.” - P.G. Wodehouse

21. “Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble.” - Steve Berry

22. “I love fortune readings! because when I get in troubles, if the reading says that I am in a lucky day, I can think my troubles are just some kind of mistakes, and if the reading says that I am in the unlucky day, I can think that my troubles are just because of my bad luck. Either ways, I can know the reason of my troubles.” - Hiroko Sakai

23. “Because he had been- and in many ways still was- such a brilliant man, he no doubt understood the nature of his memory problem. It wasn't pride that prevented him from asking for help but a deep aversion to causing more trouble than necessary for those of us who lived in the normal world.” - Yoko Ogawa

24. “The blame is on me...I knew you were trouble when you walked in..” - Taylor Swift

25. “There's trouble in every house, and some in the street.--Irish Proverb” - Dorien Kelly

26. “Harm is one of those things that I always mean to keep clear of, but somehow my intentions and me don't chime as they ought, and people will get hit with stones that I throw at my neighbor's dogs...” - Emily Dickinson

27. “When there is noise and crowds, there is trouble; When everything is silent and perfect, There is just perfection and nothing To fill the air.” - Dejan Stojanovic

28. “Because it's my fault, you see. I did it. And you must always clean up your own messes, even when your messes look just like you and curtsy very viciously when what they mean is, I am going to make trouble forever and ever.” - Catherynne M. Valente

29. “And no matter what anybody says, I don't believe all this trouble started when women got the vote. As far as I'm concerned, it goddamn well got started when you taught each other how to read.” - Susan Elizabeth Phillips

30. “If I had a talent I could claim, it would be as a finder of trouble. Which is undoubtedly what I'd find by sticking my nose where it had no right to be. But would I let a thought of trouble stop me? Not a snowflake's chance in hell.” - Keri Arthur

31. “He held up his hands in surrender. “I’m not here to start trouble. I am just doing some research for my thesis.”“If you don’t get out of this bar, you are going to be writing your thesis via Ouija board.” - Jessica Fortunato

32. “I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.” - Ernest Hemingway

33. “Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.” - Anne Lamott

34. “When I was young I wanted so much to be like her. What a blessing are those moments when there is nothing to worry about, no thought of trouble or grief in the world.” - Belinda Jeffrey

35. “Trust and believe, and you will achieve.” - Jonathan Anthony Burkett

36. “Your grand daughter may not be looking for trouble, but trouble is looking for her.” - Alice Hoffman

37. “Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes

38. “Every violent storm will eventually give way to sunshine; every dark night will finally fade into dawn.” - Steve Goodier

39. “The working artist will not tolerate trouble in her life because she knows trouble prevents her from doing her work.” - Steven Pressfield