Trouble comes in a thousand different ways. Not usually anything you expect, either. That’s why it’s trouble.

Trouble is synonymous with being a metabolizing entity.

Trouble trouble and it will trouble you!

Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.

The average man takes life as a trouble. He is in a chronic state of irritation at the whole performance. He does not learn to differentiate between troubles and difficulties, usually, until some real trouble bowls him over. He fusses about pin-pricks until a mule kicks him. Then he learns the difference.

I can make a guess. There’s going to be trouble. Come to think of it, that’s a safe catch-all prophecy. Whatever happens in present circumstances there’s going to be trouble.

Trouble," he chuckled. "What does a boy like you know about trouble? I was in trouble afore you were born. I been in trouble you don't even got words for."

Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think. (p59)

when however small a measure of jealousy is mixed with misunderstanding, there is always going to be trouble.

In trouble to be troubled
Is to have your trouble doubled.

"There are, occasionally, rarely, some difficulties," she admitted.
"That is a word that may cover a great swath of territory," I said, "from the low foothills of minor inconvenience to the insurmountable peaks of constant vexation."

Life with another person is always difficult.

Everything (he kept saying) is something it isn't. And everybody is always somewhere else.

No man can go through life
and reach the end unharmed.
Aye, trouble is now,
and trouble still to come.