Quotes About Adversity

Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life.

In a healthy individual, a broken bone that has healed properly is strongest where it was once broken. You have not lost any life, Henry told himself. You will still get your fair share of years. Yet the quality of his life changed. Once you've been struck by violence, you acquire companions that never leave you entirely: Suspicion, Fear, Anxiety, Despair, Joylessness. The natural smile is taken from you and the natural pleasures you once enjoyed lose their appeal.

Dawn came and matters were worse for it. Because now, emerging from the darkness, I could see, what before I had only felt, the great curtains of rain crashing down on me from towering heights and the waves that threw a path over me and trod me underfoot one after another.

animals don't escape from somewhere but from something

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

No one dies of nausea, but it can seriously sap the will to live.

Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn't stay dry.

Strach to jedyny prawdziwy przeciwnik ?ycia.

Because of the gnawing feeling that no matter how hard they work their efforts will yield nothing, that what they build up in one year will be torn down in one day by others.

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

Ravi was right. Truly I was to be the next goat. I had a wet, trembling, half-drowned, heaving and coughing three-year-old adult Bengal tiger in my lifeboat. Richard Parker rose unsteadily to his feet on the tarpaulin, eyes blazing as they met mine, ears laid tight to his head, all weapons drawn. His head was the size and colour of the lifebuoy, with teeth. I turned around, stepped over the zebra and threw myself overboard.

Only fear can defeat life.

Life goes on and you don't touch tigers.

T]o be a castaway is to be caught up in grim and exhausting opposites.

Khi ta Ä'ã ch?u nhi?u Ä'au Ä'á»›n ? ??i, má»—i má»™t ná»—i Ä'au má»›i s? v?a n?ng trÄ©u mà cÅ©ng l?i ch?ng là gì.

I was alone and orphaned, in the middle of the Pacific, hanging on to an oar, an adult tiger in front of me, sharks beneath me, a storm raging about me.

Now comes the difficult part: you must provoke the animal that is afflicting you. Tiger, rhinoceros, ostrich, wild boar, brown bear- no matter the beast, you must get its goat.

There are many ways in which life's little candle can be snuffed out. A cold wind pursues us all.

Things floated in the water but none that brought me hope. I could see no other lifeboats.

Within the limits of their nature, they make do with what they have.

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

attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.

Certainly, anyone whom I've witnessed, who has gone through something horrible and life-changing, has a sense of ironic humor, or an ability to look at the peculiarities of the world and find humor in it.

Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,And burned is Apollo's laurel bough,That sometime grew within this learned man.