Quotes About Adversity

The survivors are deprived of that vital human connection to their past; they are robbed of their stories, their music and dance, their spiritual practices and beliefs—they are stripped of their very identity.

The wise and good are outnumbered a thousand to one by the brutal and stupid. When you give an Einstein two centuries to perfect his science, you give a thousand others two centuries to perfect their brutality.

She called it the Catastrophe-Inducing Agency

The act of living causes brain damage.

we are the half-destroyed instruments that once held a course

A thinking woman sleeps with monsters that beak which grips her, she becomes.

As I often tell my students, the person you'll have the hardest time opening to and truly loving without reserve is yourself. Once you can do that, you can love the whole universe unconditionally.

On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble.

Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.

Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out.

Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends.

The Sphinx, the Watch-dog that presideth over evil days.

I have been schooled by my own suffering: I've learned the many ways of being purged.

On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged.

It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.

Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.

Do not kick against the pricks.

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.

Suffering brings experience.

The great do not always prevail.

We must make friends in prosperity, if we would have their help in adversity.

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.