Quotes About Adversity

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.

Gathered around me were the weak instead of the strong, the ugly instead of the beautiful, the losers instead of the winners. It looked like it was my destiny to travel in their company through life. That didn't bother me so much as the fact that I seemed irresistible to these dull idiot fellows.

Everybody had to conform, find a mold to fit into. Doctor, lawyer, soldier -- it didn't matter what it was. Once in the mold you had to push forward. Sussex was as helpless as the next man. Either you managed to do something or you starved in the streets.

Bun?tatea putea fi uneori g?sit? în mijlocul iadului.

I told her, Hang tight, baby, it's a crazy world. And that, as they say, was that.

Most so-called brave people lack imagination. As though they can't conceive of what would happen if something went wrong. The truly brave overcome their imagination and do what they have to do. 2

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure ad moving on. Yet most people are stricken wth fear. They fear failure so much that they fail.

what matter most is how well you walk trough fire.

please take a picture of this: a 70-year-old white whale lurking within the warm white whirling water. how did he last? how did he escape all the harpoons for all those years? why didn't he get beached along the way on the dry shore? how did he evade so many schools of hungry sharks?

We are dying birds we are sinking ships— the world rocks down against us and we throw out our arms and we throw out our legs like the death kiss of the centipede: but they kindly snap our backs and call our poison "politics.

and I said, I was beaten down long ago in some alley in another world.

Ako se desi nesto lose,pijes da zaboravis;ako se desi nesto lepo,pijes da proslavis;a ako se nista ne desava,pijes da bi se nesto desilo.

A. Huxley died at 69, much too early for such a fierce talent, and I read all his works but actually Point Counter Point did help a bit in carrying me through the factories and the drunk tanks and the unsavory ladies. that book along with Hamsun's Hunger they helped a bit. great books are the ones we need.

What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.

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.

there are times when we should, remember, the strange courage, of the second-rate who refuse to quit, when the nights, are black and long and sleepless, and the days are without, end.

There is nothing worse than being broke and having your woman leave you. Nothing to drink, no job,just the walls, sitting there staring at the walls and thinking. That's how women got back at you, but it hurt and weakened them too. Or so I like to believe.

It's only when things are not going too badly for a while that we forget.

we each at times should remember the most elevated and lucky moment of our lives. for me it was being a very young man and sleeping penniless and friendless upon a park bench in a strange city which doesn't say much for all those many decades which followed.

I always felt it would pass. I listened to the charges against me knowing some of them to be true but certainly not important enough to become the target of violence, envy, vengeance. I thought it would surely pass.

the gods have been kind to me through this life-style that would have killed an ox of a man and I'm no ox of a man.

Algunas personas nunca enloquecen. Tendrán unas vidas realmente horribles.

Maldita sea, parecía imposible que perdiéramos, pero perdimos.

there's music in everything, even defeat—but