Quotes About Adversity

Hard lives begat hard laws, not just in the necessities of living, but also in those of believing.

Armour encumbers, restricts the body and soul within it. But it also protects. Blows are blunted Feelings lose their edge, leaving us to suffer naught but a plague of bruises, and after a time, bruises fade.

No matter how bad things can appear to be, they can always get worse. Such is life.

People suffered, many died, but they struggled through and they survived.

Failure wasn't a pleasant notion. It stung. It burned like acid.

And the fact remained, whatever games the gods played, it was hard-working dirt-poor bastards like him who suffered for it.

Well, the world presented its challenges, and without challenges life was worthless and pointless and, most crucially, devoid of interest.

Be assured, Torvald, Kruppe's friend, that "bad" is never as bad as bad might be, even when it's very bad indeed.

She pushed herself upright, stumbling as pain closed iron bands around her ankles.

The harder the world the fiercer the honor

It is what we can bear,' she whispered. 'But there is more to life than suffering.

Confidence was a seed that could grow in any soil, no matter how impoverished. She had seen as much again and again.

his life had been rather headlong. He felt as if he was plunging down a steep hill, for ever but one step from bone-snapping, blood-spraying disaster. Used to be he thrived on such feelings. Proof that he was alive. Yet…too many friends had fallen to the wayside on the journey. Far too many, and he was reluctant to let others take their places

Fighting is for people who fail at everything else.

Not me, alas. Things get tough, and I'm liable to curl up and start whimpering

Seeing victory only moments away stripped caution from the hunters.

War isn't just one thing, over and over again. It's a thing that never stops changing, and every change is just fucking worse than what went before.

Kallor never failed such moments. Let the curse flail him, strike him down; let defeat batter him again and again. He would just get back up, shake the dust off, and begin once more. He knew the world was damned.

For all the wrong reasons. But there's this – in this Hood-damned world, it's worth taking what you can get. Whatever you can get.

When suffering awaits, it takes great courage to stride forward, to enter this unrelenting, unforgiving realm.

peregrination has been anything but peaceful.

We are the Hust Legion!' 'Indeed,' said Dathenar. 'And as it stands, lieutenant, we are also, to not put too fine a point on it, royally fucked.

Failure wears many guises, and I have worn them all.

world beat upon a soul until bones bent and hearts broke.