Quotes About Adversity

had thought earlier in the night that you can't run when you are sodden from head to foot and weighted down with a rifle and cartridges; I learned now you can always run when you think you have fifty or a hundred armed men after you.

It's curious how it gets you down to have a sticky neck.

It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against ones body.

Debant la douleur, il n'y a pas de héros, aucun héros.

in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one's own body.

Le sorprendía que momentos de aguda crisis no debemos luchar contra un enemigo exterior sino contra nuestro propio cuerpo.

I myself think it was right, because I believe that it is better even from the point of view of survival to fight and be conquered than to surrender without fighting.

The man who really merits pity is the man who has been down from the start, and faces poverty with a blank, resourceless mind.

Valor, lobito, ¡siempre valor! Recuerda que los malos tiempos no duran siempre, y que las dificultades que hoy nos parecen tan terribles acabaran desapareciendo.

In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.

things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse – hunger, hardship and disappointment being, the unalterable law of life.

Heureusement l'ennemi était on ne peut moins entreprenant. Il y eut des nuits où notre position eût pu être prise d'assaut par vingt boy-scouts armés de carabines à air comprimé, ou tout aussi bien par vingt girl-guides armées de raquettes.

Life goes on much the same. In the face of terrifying dangers and golden political opportunities, people just keep-on keeping-on in a sort of twilight sleep in which they're conscious of nothing but the daily-round of work, family life, darts at the pub, exercising the dog, bringing home the supper, beer, etc, etc

You understand, that you will be fighting in the dark. You will always be in the dark.

losing your job does not mean that you cease to be a human being.

Non esiste nulla di peggio del dolore fisico. Davanti al dolore, continuò a pensare Winston mentre si contorceva sul pavimento, stringendo inutilmente il braccio sinistro ormai invalido, non ci sono eroi. No, davanti al dolore non ci sono eroi.

On the battlefield, in the torture chamber, on a sinking ship, the issues that you are fighting for are always forgotten, because the body swells up until it fills the universe, and even when you are not paralyzed by fright or screaming with pain, life is a moment-to-moment struggle against hunger or cold or sleeplessness, against a sour stomach or an aching tooth.

En los momentos de crisis uno nunca lucha contra un enemigo externo, sino contra su propio cuerpo

It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body.

It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body. [..] The dull ache in his belly made consecutive thought impossible. And it is the same, he perceived, in all seemingly heroic or tragic situations.

Nesse jogo que estamos jogando, não temos como vencer. Alguns tipos de fracassos são melhores que outros.

It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one's own body. Even

If you look close enough and are in a bad mood, public service seems to be composed of paperwork and personal feuds.

The unwinding brings freedom, more than the world has ever granted, and to more kinds of people than ever before—freedom to go away, freedom to return, freedom to change your story, get your facts, get hired, get fired, get high, marry, divorce, go broke, begin again, start a business, have it both ways, take it to the limit, walk away from the ruins, succeed beyond your dreams and boast about it, fail abjectly and try again.