Quotes About Adversity

But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse

All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.

Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.

Hard people make hard times. I've seen the meanness of humans till I don't know why god ain't put out the sun and gone away.

Nothin wounded goes uphill, he said. It just dont happen.

The man watched him. Real life is pretty bad? What do you think? Well, I think we're still here. A lot of bad things have happened but we're still here. Yeah. You don't think that's so great. It's okay.

I dont think you havin a bad day, Professor. I think you havin a bad life.

those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength and that they must make their way back into the common enterprise of man for without they do so it cannot go forward and they themselves will wither in bitterness

A malign star kept him.

You wear out, Ed Tom. All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it. Your grandad never asked me to sign on as deputy with him. I done that my own self. Hell, I didn't have nothing else to do. Paid about the same as cowboyin. Anyway, you never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

A calamity can be erased by no amount of good. It can only be erased by a worse calamity.

I'd rather to make a good run as a bad stand.

I dont know what happens to country.

He said that journeys involving the company of the dead were notorious for their difficulty but that in truth every journey was so accompanied.

It is not my experience that life's difficulties make people more charitable.

Anyway, you never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

There's too much shit still down the road that I got to deal with. It aint goin to end here.

It is always one's stance upon uncertain ground that invites the attentions of one's enemies. Or discourages it.

You wear out, Ed Tom. All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.

The defeated have their cause and the victors have their victory.

They sat contemplating towns to come and the poor fanfare of trumpet and drum and the crude boards upon which their destinies were inscribed for these people were no less bound and indentured and they watched like the prefiguration of their own ends the carbonized skulls of their enemies incandescing before them bright as blood among the coals.

There's a kind of man that when he cant have what he wants he wont take the next best thing but the worst he can find.

It was defeat. It was being beaten. More bitter to him than death. You need to get over that, he said.

Well. I think maybe it's harder to lose just one thing than to lose everything.