Quotes About Adversity

That's what it feels like, anyway. Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure.

Those in the middle got killed; governments and terrorists survived. At

La verdad no es amable. Lo descubrirás muy pronto cuando la vida te vapulee.

We're all just looking for a place of safety. And if you don't find one, then you have to learn how to pass the time.

How could I possibly be a better person without her than with her? Later, I thought: but he is just echoing Nietzsche's line about what doesn't kill us making us stronger. And as it happens, I have long considered this epigram particularly specious. There are many things that fail to kill us but weaken us for ever. Look around at those emotionally damaged by mere ordinary life.

Flaubert: encerrar y sojuzgar al gran escritor, al gran burgués, al terror, al enemigo, al sabio. Un ataque al corazón puso punto final al primer proyecto; la ceguera abrevió el segundo.

Life was the cat that dragged the parrot downstairs by its tail; his head banged against every step.

they continued under the same roof, with good days and bad weeks, swallowed rage, occasional outbursts and increasing social isolation. All this no longer made him feel interesting; instead, he felt a failure and an outcast.

he didn't feel pity for Macleod, despite all the humiliations and infirmities visited upon him. These he regarded as inevitabilities; indeed, he nowadays regarded most things that happened as inevitabilities.

Loši snovi ne daju ostatku života da ide dalje.

And you do come out of it, that's true. After a year, after five. But you don't come out of it like a train coming out of a tunnel, bursting through the Downs into sunshine and that swift, rattling descent to the Channel; you come out of it as a gull comes out of an oil-slick. You are tarred and feathered for life.

The storyteller is the survivor, after all.

Sometimes, the only way out of the fire is through the fire, m'boy.

Oh, I'm bowed, but unbroken.

I should not, if I were you, wish to be, because 'sterner stuff' is usually forged by hardship.

she wondered if seeds ever resented the sun, knowing it would shine with no quarter and give them no choice but to push their heads up out of the safety of the hard, hard ground and bloom.

Fallen woman. The term made a sort of poetic sense. Once the fall started, it seemed it never stopped.

Sometimes being heroic means showing uncommon grace in the face of untenable circumstances.

Trouble follows you like a shadow, Gillian. You're prone to injuries. I swear to God, if a tree decided to fall right now, it would find your head to land on. Oh, for heaven's sake, she muttered. I'll admit that I have had a run of bad fortune, but— He wouldn't let her continue. A run of bad fortune? Since I've known you, you've been beaten, stabbed and now shot with an arrow. If this keeps up, you'll be dead in another month

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Life, oblivious to his grief, continued

Everything else still unknown. Somehow you have to do it. Somehow you have to survive.

And remember, it's easier to bend than to break.

They learned that some people are born luckier than others and that things in this world do not always go as you plan.