Quotes About Adversity

Quiza por eso la adoraba mas, por esa estupidez eterna de perseguir a los que nos hacen daño

Nadie sobrevive una guerra civil con un ápice de dignidad del que presumir. Mi

La filosofía de normalidad con la que hay que educar implica no dar poder a ninguna circunstancia adversa y no permitir que se convierta en trauma.

Nadie triunfa sin fracasar antes

And start thinking about another of these stories for me. I'll give you a week for the next one. But don't fall asleep. And let's see if we can have a lower body count this time—today's readers like a slushy ending in which the greatness of the human spirit triumphs over adversity, that sort of rubbish.

Non sono mai andato fuori strada nella vita. Il problema in questo nostro amato paese sono le strade, non chi le percorre.

However many sorrows you drag along with you, you'll only have walked a few steps before bumping into someone who will remind you that there's always another person with a far worse set of cards than yours in the game of life.

No te pongas años de más, que ya te los pondrá la vida.

Bienaventurado aquel al que ladran los cretinos, porque su alma nunca les pertenecerá.

En aquellos días aprendí que nada da más miedo que un héroe que vive para contarlo, para contar lo que todos los que cayeron a su lado no podrán contar jamás

La vida, esa reina de las putas.

Um bom amigo disse-me uma vez que os problemas são como as baratas (...) Se surgem à luz, assustam-se e vão-se embora.

En las batallas perdidas, la última defensa es la indiferencia

De eso nada. ¿Se acuerda usted de lo que me dijo una vez? ¿Que el destino no hace visitas a domicilio, que hay que ir a por él? —Tengo que confesar que lo saqué de un libro de Carax. Sonaba bonito.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

There I learned that one can forget almost everything in life, beginning with bad smells, and that if there was one thing I aspired to, it was not to die in a place like that. In the low hours—which were most hours—I told myself that if anything was going to get me out of there before an outbreak of tuberculosis did the job, it was literature, and if that pricked anyone's soul, or their balls, they could scratch them with a brick.

Todo lo que sea caerse por un agujero y tropezarse con chiflados y problemas lo tomó a título autobiográfico.

bastan unos cuantos pasos para tropezarse con alguien o con algo que le recuerda que siempre hay quien ha recibido peores cartas que uno mismo en la partida de la vida.

She gathered all the strength she didn't possess and got back on her feet.

Nunca subestimes el talento para olvidar que despiertan las guerras

Time played on the opposite team.

Whatever life brings, we'll share, she says, and I can do no more than the best I can.

I shall love my kind of love anyway, doggedly, for I must certainly do the best I can with my own nature and if my nature is to love too well or from afar or to be grateful for crumbs...well, so be it.

One wood mouse can nibble a large hole.