Quotes About Adversity

Evenimentele grave, fericite sau nefericite, nu schimb? sufletul unui om, ci îl contureaz? mai bine, la fel cum o pal? de vânt care ridic? brusc frunzele moarte scoate la iveal? forma unui copac. Ele scot la lumin? ceea ce era l?sat la umbr?. Înclin? spiritul în direcÈ›ia în care va creÈ™te de atunci înainte.

Non ho paura della vita pensò. Sono stati solo anni di apprendistato. Terribilmente duri, è vero, ma mi hanno temprata, hanno rafforzato il mio coraggio e il mio orgoglio. E questo mi appartiene, è la mia ricchezza inalienabile. Sono sola, ma la mia solitudine è aspra e inebriante.

Os acontecimentos graves, felizes ou infelizes, não alteram a alma de um homem, mas precisam-na, tal como uma rajada de vento revela a forma de uma árvore ao varrer num ápice as folhas mortas; trazem para a luz aquilo que estava relegado na sombra; inclinam o espírito na direcção em que passará a crescer.

We are currently living in terrifying times which could become tragic overnight. Moreover, you are Russian and Jewish, and it could be that people who do not know you—though they must be few and far between given your fame as a writer—might cause problems for you, also

I feel I'm at the end of something — everything is going to be different — and terrible. That doesn't sound like you, you ride every wave. There is one that will drown me.

You can't magic yourself out of the situation, you've got to live it as decently and as grimly as you can.

There were good times or goodish times, only the bad times were so—crucial.

He must play the game of survival until the very end.

But by now anything was better than hope.

Yes, I've endured so much, and you seem to think this means I will endure anything. It does not.

But I've had such a rotten life. People like me are a problem .

In my experience a good row not only does not clear the air but can land you with a lifelong enemy.

You can't go through the looking-glass without getting cut. You know that now, don't you?

These young people have got to suffer, we can't save them from it —

She had made some sort of life-mistake which meant that everything would grow worse and never better.

How did it make you feel?

Any cunt withoot the virus could git run ower the morn. That's the wey ye huv tae look at it. Cannae jist cancel the gig. The show must go oan.

Bit it's what bein a hard man is aw aboot; its a journey, a fucking self destructive quest tae find yir limits, cause they fuckin limits eywis come in the form ay a harder man. A big. strong, stiff hard man whae can dae it for ye, whae can teach ye, show ye whaire ye stand, where yir fuckin parameters ur.

You can only learn through failure, and what ye learn is the importance ay preparation.

Two choices; one: tough it oot, back in the room, two: phone that cunt Forrester and go tae Muirhoose, get fucked aboot and ripped oaf wi some crap gear. Nae contest. In twenty minutes it wis: — Muirhoose pal? tae the driver oan the 32 bus and quiveringly stickin ma forty-five pence intae the the box. Any port in a storm, and it's raging in here behind ma face.

It seems to go beyond our personal junk circumstances; a brilliant metaphor for our times.

Ah take some more crass humiliation for what seems like an eternity.

Failure kind of comes in all sorts of ways, and teaches you all sorts of things. You learn by failing.

Fuck you and your First World problems! If every cunt that had taken their first ecky commited adultery by jacksie-rifling the first psycho fucker who smiled at them, not one worthwhile relationship in Britain would still exist!