Quotes About Adversity

Yet cease your ire, you angry stars of heaven! Wind, rain, and thunder, remember earthly man Is but a substance that must yield to you.

They that stand high have many blasts to shake 275 them, 276 And if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces.

Por un extraño azar la próvida Fortuna, que ahora me acompaña, ha traído hasta aquí a mis enemigos, y por presciencia veo que mi cenit depende de un astro sumamente favorable y que, si no aprovecho su influencia, mi suerte decaerá. Cesen ya tus preguntas. Te duermes. Es benigna soñolencia. Abandónate: no puedes evitarla. (Próspero)

If thou wilt leave me, do not leave me last, When other petty griefs have done their spite, But in the onset come: so shall I taste At first the very worst of fortune's might; And other strains of woe, which now seem woe, Compar'd with loss of thee will not seem so.

One woe doth tread upon another's heel. So fast they follow.

Welcome the sour cup of prosperity! Affliction may one day smile again, and till then, Sit thee down, sorrow!

William Shakespeare

More light and light, more dark and dark our woes.

Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world Have so incensed that I am reckless

God me such uses send, Not to pick bad from bad, but by bad mend.

you do assist the storm.

Stand, stand!...Nothing routs us but The villainy of our fears.

Vivimos tiempos desquiciados. ¡Oh, nefasta suerte, que me hiciste nacer para enmendarlos!

Happy are those who hear their detractions and can put them to mending.

And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.

Then I resolved that I would go back out there and somehow cope with the situation, despite the fact that I lacked a strategy and was frightened to the pit of my being.

In the absence of hope we must still struggle to survive, and so we do - by the skin of our teeth.

Bloody and bowed by the outrages of life, most human beings still stagger on down the road, unscathed by real depression. To discover why some people plunge into the downward spiral of depression, one must search beyond the manifest crisis—and then still fail to come up with anything beyond wise conjecture.

there is only one way out—up the chimney.' He

For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of Is come unto me. I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came. —Job

There is only one way out--up the chimney.

pain may be inevitable but suffering is optional.

O pessimista vê dificuldade em toda oportunidade. O otimista vê oportunidade em toda dificuldade.

The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.