Quotes About Adversity

I don't know, maybe your experience differed from mine. For me, growing up as a human being on the planet Earth in the twenty-first century was a real kick in the teeth. Existentially speaking

You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here on out.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure that it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places…

Courage is grace under pressure.

But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.

You've got to bend with the wind or you're broken.

If I ain't nothing but trouble, you ain't nothing but Nothing.

Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.

In referance to flying through thunderstorms; "A pilot may earn his full pay for that year in less than two minutes. At the time of incident he would gladly return the entire amount for the privilege of being elsewhere.

Anyone can do the job when things are going right. In this business we play for keeps.

Without imperfection [...] there would be no story.

Life hurts—where is there growth without suffering?

The trappings of civilization are soon cast aside in the face of stern realities, and given the barest opportunity of winning food and shelter, man can live and even find his laughter ringing true

Our drifting home had no rudder to guide it, no sail to give it speed. We

We had two tins of Virol, which we were keeping for an emergency; but, finding ourselves in need of an oil-lamp to eke out our supply of candles, we emptied one of the tins in the manner that most appealed to us, and fitted it with a wick made by shredding a bit of canvas. When

containing anemometer, barograph, and thermograph, rigged over the stern. The geologist was making the best of what to him was an unhappy situation; but was not

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.

Our whole life is solving puzzles.

Tell me your relation to pain, and I will tell you who you are!