Quotes About Adversity

I tried to drown my sorrows but the bastards learned how to swim.

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim." --

Te vas? No. Alas rotas.

At the end of the day, we can endure a lot more than we think we can.

I have weighed all the dogs and have come to the conclusion that we can feed them on each other and keep going for about fifty days, having, in addition to this, dog provisions for about thirty days, we ought to be able to travel with dogs for eighty days, and in that time it seems to me we should have arrived somewhere.

Der Mensch lernt in der Katastrophe, menschlich zu leben, was er im Frieden nicht kann.

Deine Sehnsucht war, mein Leben zu zerstören, und meine war es, mein Leben dir zum Trotz zu behaupten.

But where the danger is, also grows the saving power.

Man kann auch in die Höhe fallen, so wie in die Tiefe.

ìYou may have enemies whom you hate, but not enemies whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy: then the success of your enemy shall be your success too.

Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster

That which doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Amor fati: that is my innermost nature. And as regards my long sickness, do I not owe to it unutterably more than I owe to my health?

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

What does not kill him, makes him stronger.

He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster.

Out of life's school of war What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quick sand to virtue

He turns all of his injuries into strengths, that which does not kill him makes him stronger, he is superman.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces obstinacy, it sharpens the sense of alienation and strengthens the power of resistance.

Quand on parle de civilisations, on fait volontiers valoir tels aspects fragmentaires, soit en bien soit en mal : on oublie que la civilisation chinoise n'est pas la déformation des pieds des femmes, et qu'un hôpital ou une route n'est pas une civilisation. Une civilisation est un monde, c'est-à-dire une totalité faite de compensations. Il n'y a pas d'organisme complexe sans quelques maux; la nature est là pour le prouver.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." —EDMUND BURKE