Quotes About Adversity

La verdad esencial de la vida, tal como John estaba empezando a entrever, no era nada idealista, y se podía resumir en pocas palabras: siempre pasan cosas malas, mierdas, mierdas y más mierdas. Y pese a ello siempre sigues adelante. Mantienes a tus amigos, a tu familia y a tu amor con la mayor seguridad posible. Y cuando te derriban, te levantas y sigues luchando. Luchas incluso cuando ya no te queda esperanza en la victoria. Maldición, es verdad, no te rindes jamás.

Às vezes, o facto de sermos forçados a ser fortes era o suficiente para nos convertermos, realmente, no que devíamos ser.

I fell one time," Hamill says. "But I was able to tuck and roll like I was taught. I was later made a member of the British Stunt Union—not just a belt buckle, but a full membership.

I always thought I was thought and independent, that I could do everything alone. Turns out I'm not as tough as I'd like to think I am.

I need to stop getting into situations where all my options are potentially bad.

Sagas wouldn't be interesting if terrible things didn't happen to the people in them.

I respect you far too much to think that empty pride is the only motivator you could call on. I think what you call pride is something much more than that. Belief in yourselves, perhaps, or perseverance in the face of adversity. Those are things to be proud of. That's not the same as being proud.

You know, like that old Catch 42 expression that stands for the meaning of life is that in the end you always get screwed.

Sir, winning is usually a matter of making one less mistake than the enemy or just getting up one more time than you get knocked down.

I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim...

Hateful bitch of a world, it wouldn't ever last.

That's the story of my life rich or poor and mostly poor and truly poor.

Sometimes I'd get mad because things didn't work out so well, I'd spoil a flapjack, or slip in the snowfield while getting water, or one time my shovel went sailing down into the gorge, and I'd be so mad I'd want to bite the mountaintops and would come in the shack and kick the cupboard and hurt my toe. But let the mind beware, though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.

Ah Japhy you taught me the final lesson of them all, you can't fall off a mountain.

E anche se aveva problemi di lavoro e una storia infelice con una donna dalla lingua lunga, almeno aveva imparato a ridere meglio di chiunque altro al mondo.

Thousands of mosquitoes had already bitten all of us on chest and arms and ankles. Then a bright idea came to me: I jumped up on the steel roof of the car and stretched out flat on my back. Still there was no breeze, but the steel had an element of coolness in it and dried my back of sweat, clotting up thousands of dead bugs into cakes on my skin, and I realized the jungle takes you over and you become it.

Galatea Dunkel was a tenacious loser.

There was something virile in her attitude toward tragedy, as though she were defying God to knock off the chip He Himself had placed on her shoulder.

and to the south another vaster darker storm closing in like a pincer; but Hozomeen mountain stood there returning the attack with a surl of silence.

After all a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him.

pain can work form the outside in.

People were complex creatures, walking, talking rag quilts, youthful dreams and hopes and fears and middle-aged indiscretions, aging aches and pains and losses, the whole damn kit and kaboodle, mended here and tattered there. People were pushed and pulled in all sorts of directions and did whatever it was they had to do for balance.

Fighting for your life is a fucking ball. As long as you didn't get slaughtered.

So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.