Quotes About Adversity

Unless you have been very, very lucky, you have undoubtedly experienced events in your life that have made you cry. So unless you have been very, very lucky, you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.

Sooner or later, everyone's story has an unfortunate event or two...The solution, of course, is to stay as far away from the world as possible and lead a safe, simple life.

Miracles can happen, even to those who are small, flammable, and dressed all in black.

Right, good temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Bad circumstances have a way of ruining things that would otherwise be pleasant.

Sometimes even in most unfortunate of lives there will occur a moment or two of good.

It has been said that the hardest job in the world is raising a child, but the people who says this have probably never worked at a comb factory or captured pirates on the high seas.

I am heartbroken, but I have been heartbroken before, and this might be the best for which I can hope.

In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.

We are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them.

Life isn't fair," he said, in his undisguised voice, and for once the Baudelaire orphans agreed with every word the man said.

There are some who go through life with a shadow hanging over them, particularly if they live in a building which has long wide awnings.

Frustration is an interesting emotional state, because it tends to bring out the worst in whoever is frustrated.

What do your parents know, about surviving?

Besides getting several paper cuts in the same day or receiving the news that someone in your family has betrayed you to your enemies, one of the most unpleasant experiences in life is a job interview.

It is very difficult to make one's way in this world without being wicked at one time or another, when the world's way is so wicked to being with.

It takes years for the land to recuperate from a fire, but even in the darkest of ashes eventually something can grow.

Nobody wants to fall into a safety net, because it means the structure in which they've been living is in a state of collapse and they have no choice but to tumble downwards. However, it beats the alternative.

You cannot wait for an untroubled world to have an untroubled moment. The terrible phone call, the rainstorm, the sinister knock on the door—they will all come. Soon enough arrive the treacherous villain and the unfair trial and the smoke and the flames of the suspicious fires to burn everything away. In the meantime, it is best to grab what wonderful moments you find lying around.

When things don't go right, go left

Fight Fire with Fire

The story of the Baudelaires takes place in a very real world, where some people are laughed at just because they have something wrong with them, and where children can find themselves all alone in the world, struggling to understand the mystery that surrounds them.

and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.

Así pues, a menos que hayáis sido muy, muy afortunados, sabréis que una buena y larga sesión de llanto a menudo puede haceros sentir mejor, aunque vuestras circunstancias no hayan cambiado lo más mínimo.