Quotes About Adversity

Even the good guys,' she said, 'can't win all the time.

Sometimes life has a habit of flooding over you and rushing you along in its overwhelming tide.

Look for another bed if yours is occupied. I don't want the miserable little bit of your life. You're just not enough for me, my boy. First, you have to live. Kick ass, and let yourself be ass-kicked. One day, when you're totally drunk, up to the top, when you're paralyzed, struggling to move and lying in the mud, then we can talk again. But for now, get real, ok? And now your clear the premises, my darling boy. Your little handful of life is not fucking enough. Keep it. I don't want it.

Ich möchte Leuchtturm sein in Nacht und Wind – für Dorsch und Stint, für jedes Boot – und ich bin doch selbst ein Schiff in Not!

Knurrewahn hatte viel durchgemacht; aber er war nicht weise geworden.

A deranged person is supposed to have the strength of ten men. I have the strength of one small boy... with polio.

I can't fight. I was once run over by a car with a flat tire, being pushed by two guys.

You know what my philosophy of life is? That it's important to have some laughs, but you got to suffer a little too, because otherwise you miss the whole point to life.

Whosoever shall not fall by the sword or by famine, shall fall by pestilence so why bother shaving?

Los personajes femeninos de Lovborg: una evaluación DORF: Oh, Netta. ¡Todo está perdido! ¡Perdido! NETTA: Para un hombre pusilánime, tal vez, pero no para un hombre que tenga...valor.

I must say, it amazed me how many in my profession caved in like dominoes.

Justo castigo -¡Dios mío, las cosas que me pasan!

Se di tanto in tanto non hai degli insuccessi, è segno che non stai facendo nulla di davvero innovativo.

Even amidst fierce flames the golden lotus can be planted - Sylvia Plath's epitaph (from Wu Cheng'en's novel Journey to the West aka. Monkey, translated by Arthur Waley)

What you must do, said Monkey, is lure the monster from its hiding place, but be certain it is a fight you can survive.

When anything happens to you that seems unfortunate, even if it is hurtful or takes something precious from you, see it as a beneficial occurrence.

Endurance is a state that is not worn down by anything. To achieve the goal of endurance so that your relationships will survive through the difficulties, failures, successes, and changes that all relationships encounter as part of the human condition, it is necessary to fix your mind on the goal of endurance.

La adversidad es una carambola imposible. Una chuza robada por el diablo. Un triste logaritmo inoperante. Pienso que la conozco, y ella a mí, pero seguro estoy exagerando. Dudo que sea digno de que La Adversidad me vea de frente y pronuncie mi nombre.

Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.   Seize

That the Life of Man may at all Times and Seasons, even in Afflictions, and in all Sorts of Circumstances, be universally employed in the Practice of Philosophy.

It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion.

Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn't be more simple, nor the stakes higher.

If you are pitched into misery, remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.

I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.