Quotes About Adversity

Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated.

Mr William, he said, in my life six times have I crashed, and on not one occasion have I ever been killed.( Bevinda Singh taxi driver from City of Djinns

Nobody wants to read about happy people.

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune

Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.

I am not one of those women who can stand things.

It is because so much happens. Too much happens. That's it. Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything. That's it. That's what is so terrible. That he can bear anything, anything.

And I reckon them that are good must suffer for it the same as them that are bad.

it takes an awful lot of character to quit anything when you are losing

They killed us, but they ain't whooped us yet.

I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail.

I reckon a man in a tight might let Bill Varner patch him up like a mule, but I be damned if the man that'd let Anse Bundren treat him with raw cement aint got more spare legs than I have.

a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got. He'll cling to trouble he's used to before he'll risk a change.

There are some things which happen to us which the intelligence and the senses refuse just as the stomach sometimes refuses what the palate has accepted but which digestion cannot compass _occurences which stop us dead as though by some impalpable intervention, like a sheet of glass through which we watch all subsequent events transpire as though in a soundless vacuum, and fade, vanish; are gone, leaving us immobile, impotent, helpless; fixed, until we can die.

If ever was such a misfortunate man," pa says.

And then, life wasn't made to be easy on folks: they wouldn't ever have any reason to be good and die.

Amid the pointing and the horror the clean flame.

There are good men everywhere, at all times. Most men are. Some are just unlucky, because most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be. And I've known some that even the circumstances couldn't stop. ~from 'Delta Autumn

El hombre realiza, engendra más de lo que puede o de lo que debería soportar. Así es como descubre que puede soportarlo todo

because it takes an awful lot of character to quit anything when you are losing

Father said a man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired, but then time is your misfortune Father said.

I could have used the money real well. But it's not like they cost me any-thing except the baking. I can tell him that anybody is likely to make a miscue, but it's not all of them that can get out of it without loss, I can tell him. It's not everybody can eat their mistakes, I can tell him.