Quotes About Adversity

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

I don't know if we have everything necessary to be victorious over cruelty and chaos," I said. She looked up from her typewriter and tilted her hat at me. "What is necessary?" "Cruelty and chaos," I said, and stood up.

Bizony gyakran történik ez így az életben. A barátok éppen akkor t?nnek el, amikor a legnagyobb szükség lenne rájuk; a fájdalom felhÅ'je riasztja el Å'ket szerencsétlenül jártak közelébÅ'l. Én csak azt mondhatom, hogy sohasem lennék képes így viselkedni, és bizonyos vagyok abban, hogy ti sem, akik ezt a szomorú történetet olvassátok!

gdy siÄ™ czÅ'owiek porzÄ…dnie i dÅ'ugo wypÅ'acze, na ogóÅ' robi mu siÄ™ lepiej, nawet jeÅ›li okolicznoÅ›ci nie zmieniÅ'y siÄ™ ani na jotÄ™.

Excerpt from A Series of Unfortunate Events #3: The Wide Window

Mie? siebie nawzajem w zamÄ™cie nieszcz??liwego ?ycia to byÅ'o tak, jakby mie? ?aglówkÄ™ w zamÄ™cie huraganu.

A great man once said that right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. Do you understand what that means?

Por pior que seja o ambiente a nossa volta, ele pode ser suportado, desde que as pessoas que nele se encontram sejam interessantes e gentis.

We're all afraid...We were afraid when we met Captain Sham in the grocery store. We were afraid when we thought that you had jumped out the window. We were afraid to give ourselves allergic reactions, and we were afraid to steal a sailboat and we were afraid to make our way across this lake in the middle of a hurricane. But that didn't stop us.

One might say they are magnets for misfortune.

This is a difficult trick, and most people never master it, and end up dead or uncomfortable at least once during their lives.

Lemony Snicket

I swung back and forth like a ship in a storm, with the clouds swirling over me like the sea. The sky was still there. No one had drained it away.

Lemony Snicket

I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies." ? Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril

Count Olaf has been captured," she said, and the Baudelaires felt as if a bolt of lightning had struck them once more.

After the death of the Baudelaire parents, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny had found themselves under the care of a variety of guardians. Some of them had been cruel. Some of them had been murdered.

Lemony Snicket

I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.

It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.

At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough. and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.

If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of, "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm!

What chance did I stand between the Communists on one side and the Establishment on the other

It's not the load that breaks you down - it's the way you carry it!