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Topic·Hard times✕clear

It is always darkest just before the day dawneth.

Thomas Fuller (churchman)

1650

★ 8.8

Philosophical literature

You can take comfort in the likelihood that what is now making you miserable will also pass away.

Boethius

The Consolation of Philosophy · 523

★ 3.7

Song · Folk music

I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken, I saw guns and sharp swords, in the hands of young children… It's a hard rain's a gonna fall.

Bob Dylan

A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall · 1963

★ 3.7

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.

Dante Alighieri

Inferno · 1321

★ 2.3

Film · Crime (film) · Crime

The way I saw it, everybody takes a beating sometime.

Henry Hill

Goodfellas · 1990

★ 2.1

Film · Crime (film) · Drama (film) · Crime · Drama

Ain't a hard time been invented that I cannot handle.

Donald Breedan

Heat · 1995

★ 2.0

Novel

The arousing from sleep, after a recent misfortune, is a bitter moment; the mind at first habitually recurs to its previous tranquility, but is soon depressed by the thought of the contrast that awaits it.

Alessandro Manzoni

The Betrothed · 1842

★ 1.8

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