Quotes About Adversity

Having people feel sorry for you wasn't the way to get along in this world.

Sometimes stories get on my nerves--especially the ones where unfair things keep happening to the hero over and over, for no reason at all, and he valiantly overcomes it all. Life isn't like that. Not every hero can stay valiant. Sometimes, they can't even stay a hero, so what does that make them? A failure? A pussy? A total failure jerkwad with no hope on the horizon save finding a cemetery and digging rectangles in the ground for the town drunk?

Wasn't it heroic enough, just staying alive when life got this hard?

What the world calls failure, I call learning.

Here's the thing about broken hearts. You can always survive them. Always. No matter how deep the hurt, the capacity to heal and move on is even stronger.

She was the living, breathing proof that the hard things in life didn't have to defeat you - or even define you.

Courage. Whatever the storm, we must remain invincible.

We're not born to be ruthless, we women. But that's what it takes to hit the hands on the gunwale with an oar until they let go.

Susan Wojciechowski

Sometimes destiny switches the cards on you so that while you're busy escaping from the dog, you find yourself facing the wolf

Sure no woman's condition ever equalled mine: foppery, folly, avarice and hypocrisy are by turns my constant companions, and I must vary shapes as often as a player

I told her once I wasn't good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.

As far as I could see, life demanded skills I didn't have.

In a strange way we were free. We'd reached the end of the line. We had nothing more to lose. Our privacy, our liberty, our dignity: all of this was gone and we were stripped down to the bare bones of our selves

She refers to her inability to find true love as if it were a congenital weakness or fair punishment for some feminist principle that she mistakenly espoused in late adolescence and cannot now abandon honorably.

Quando non si ha scelta almeno si abbia coraggio

What else could a person do, she thought, staring hard at the darkness, but try to be happy? However confused and wrong-looking the attempt might be. And then whatever happens afterward all you could do was bear it, because whatever you could not bear you had to carry.

What else could a person do, she thought, staring hard at the darkness, but try to be happy? However confused and wrong-looking the attempt might be. And then whatever happened afterward all you could do was bear it, because whatever you could not bear you had to carry.

You know, it's not about not being afraid—it's about taking action despite the fear," he pointed out. "That's called courage.

But I heard that the worst of your addictions started while you were making Kill Zone II.

Recovering from a gunshot wound is not a vacation. You need to, like, write that on your hand or something.

It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.

Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.

There are much worse games to play.