Quotes About Adversity

Era como los hombres que han estado mucho tiempo en las trincheras, demasiado tiempo bajo el fuego. El sufrimiento humano ordinario, la envidia humana ordinaria, las ambiciones humanas ordinarias... eran mierda para mí.

It hurts? Good.

La atmósfera está saturada de desastres, frustración, futilidad. Rascarse y rascarse... hasta que no quede piel. Sin embargo su efecto en mí es estimulante. En lugar de desanimarme, o deprimirme, disfruto. Pido a gritos cada vez más desastres, calamidades mayores, fracasos más rotundos. Quiero ver el mundo escacharrado, quiero que todo el mundo se rasque hasta morir.

circumstances had altered, but God had not.

Into each life some rain must fall.

It has done me some good to be somewhat parched by the heart and drenched by the rain of life.

If at first you don't succeed... So much for skydiving.

Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.

Whatever my fate, I'll go to it laughing.

For in tremendous extremities human souls are like drowning men; well enough they know they are in peril; well enough they know the causes of that peril;--nevertheless, the sea is the sea, and these drowning men do drown.

Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.

I am past scorching; not easily can'st thou scorch a scar.

But thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous.

I leave a white and turbid wake; pale waters, paler cheeks, where'er I sail. The envious billows sidelong swell to whelm my track; let them; but first I pass.

I felt a melting in me. No more my splintered heart and maddened hand were turned against the wolfish world.

Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life.

I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts.

In this world, headwinds are far more prevalent than winds from astern (that is, if you never violate the Pythagorean maxim).

Adverse winds are holding mad Christmas in him, boys.

It is—or seems to be—a wise sort of thing, to realise that all that happens to a man in this life is only by way of joke, especially his misfortunes, if he have them. And it is also worth bearing in mind, that the joke is passed round pretty liberally & impartially, so that not very many are entitled to fancy that they in particular are getting the worst of it.

for it is often to be observed of the shallower men, that they are the very last to despond. It is the glory of the bladder that nothing can sink it; it is the reproach of a box of treasure, that once overboard it must drown

Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life. A staid, steadfast man, whose life for the most part was a telling pantomime of action, and not a tame chapter of sounds.

Oh! my friends, but this is man-killing! Yet this is life.

And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar.