Quotes About Adversity

Without the threat of suffering, we can't experience true joy. The best we get is pleasantness.

If I am a weapon, then I'm being sharpened against a grindstone every day.

If rape or arson, poison or the knife Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff Of this drab canvas we accept as life - It is because we are not bold enough!

When I was young I lived a constant storm, Though now and then the brilliant suns shot through, So in my garden few red fruits were born, The rain and thunder had so much to do. - The Enemy

Yo sé que el dolor es la nobleza única

Si le viol, le poison, le poignard, l'incendie, N'ont pas encore brodé de leurs plaisants dessins Le canevas banal de nos piteux destins, C'est que notre âme, hélas ! n'est pas assez hardie.

Et, malgré bien des chocs et d'imprévus désastres, Nous nous sommes souvent ennuyés, comme ici.

Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.

each man's hell is in a different place: mine is just up and behind my ruined face.

you've got to burn straight up and down and then maybe sidewise for a while and have your guts scrambled by a bully and the demonic ladies, you've got to run along the edge of madness teetering, you've got to starve like a winter alleycat, you've go to live with the imbecility of at least a dozen cities, then maybe maybe maybe you might know where you are for a tiny blinking moment.

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken with fear. They fear failure so much that they fail. They are too conditioned, too used to being told what to do. It begins with the family, runs through school and goes into the business world.

I suppose like others I have come through fire and sword, love gone wrong, head-on crashes, drunk at sea, and I have listened to the simple sound of water running in tubs and wished to drown

having nothing to struggle against they have nothing to struggle for.

It's a f*** you world. Well, keep it going anyhow, what the hell.

True revolution comes from true revulsion; when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion.

I am a series of small victories and large defeats.

I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future.

All our days are marked with/ unexpected/ affronts--some/ disastrous, others/ less so/ but the process is/ wearing and/ continuous./ Attrition rules./ Most give/ way/ leaving/ empty spaces/ where people should/ be.

There is always somebody about to ruin your day, if not your life.

Tell him to seek the stars and he will kill himself with climbing.

I run with the hunted.

The ocean, I said, look at it out there, battering, crawling up and down. And underneath all that, the fish, the poor fish fighting each other, eating each other. We're like those fish, only we're up here. One bad move and you're finished. It's nice to be a champion. It's nice to know your moves.

There will always be something to ruin our lives. It all depends on what or which finds us first. You're always ripe and ready to be taken.

nobody can save you but yourself. you will be put again and again into nearly impossible situations. they will attempt again and again through subterfuge, guise and force to make you submit, quit and/or die quietly inside. nobody can save you but yourself