Quotes About Adversity

and we were afraid then that all throughout our lives things like that would happen, that nobody wanted anybody to be strong and beautiful like that, that others would never allow it, and that many people would have to die.

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

I was tired and wet and hungover, but I was usually that way and I waded through the weariness like I did the water.

Sulla via per l'inferno c'è sempre un sacco di gente, ma è comunque una via che si percorre in solitudine.

the Definition of Life is Trouble.

He had nothing, and he found out that having nothing was difficult too.

the history of a tough motherfucker he

if they can exist on just these fragments of things, then I can exist too.

but there is genius in their hatred there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you to kill anybody not wanting solitude not understanding solitude they will attempt to destroy anything that differs from their own

listen, he said, you ever seen a bunch of crabs in a bucket? no, I told him. well, what happens is that now and then one crab will climb up on top of the others and begin to climb toward the top of the bucket, then, just as he's about to escape another crab grabs him and pulls him back down. really? I asked. really, he said, and this job is just like that, none of the others want anybody to get out of here. that's just the way it is

You are a bum, he told me, and you'll always be a bum! and I thought, if being a bum is to be the opposite of what this son-of-a-bitch is, then that's what I'm going to be. and it's too bad he's been dead so long for now he can't see how beautifully I've succeeded at that.

I had come a long way from a guy who had worked in slaughterhouses, who had crossed the country with a railroad track gang, who had worked in a dog biscuit factory, who had slept on park benches, who had worked the nickel and dime jobs in a dozen cities across the nation.

The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little bit more off you, until there was nothing left. At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole god-damned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves. I

hell is built piece by piece brick by brick around you.

Of course, there were a lot of good people sleeping in the streets. They weren't fools, they just didn't fit into the needed machinery of the moment. And those needs kept altering. It was a grim set-up and if you found yourself sleeping in your own bed at night, that alone was a precious victory over the forces.

the generals and the doctors may kill us but we have won.

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead. My ambition is handicapped by laziness.

well, I've been bombed out of better places than this

I've always said if you want to find out who your friends are go to a madhouse or jail. and if you want to find out where love is not be a perpetual loser.

The back was something the assholes had never figured out how to amputate.

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Ayni zamanda dustuk o boktan ise,ortak bir yan. Daha cok sonsuza dek bokun icinde yuzmek istemedigimiz icin. Her ne kadar bok iyi bir hoca olsa da insanin alabilecegi dersler sinirliydi, sonra bogulup gidiyordunuz bokun icinde.

Que tempos penosos foram aqueles anos - ter o desejo e a necessidade de viver, mas não a habilidade.

For a man who had wanted to be happy he looked like a man who had lost two pawns in the early rounds of a chess match without gaining an advantage.