Quotes About Adversity

You shouldn't be frightened so easily. Or life is going to be too much for you.

For a guy with only one peeper, Olsen commented, you're doing okay. Morosely, he added: But you'd sure be up shit creek if you lost the other.

That's why their lives are worse than ours; they can't give up and die - they have to go on.

In our time we maintain colonies on Mars, on Luna; we're perfecting workable interstellar flight—these people have not been able to cope with the Dust Bowl of Oklahoma. This

Yeah, we'll be retreating from now on. Giving ground, instead of taking it. It'll be like this today—losing fights, draws. Stalemates and worse." He raised his feverish eyes toward the ceiling of the little metal housing unit, face wild with passion and misery. "But, by God, we'll give them a run for their money. All the way back! Every inch!

Just when you thought that things couldn't get any worse, you find out that they've always been a lot worse than you thought they were. And then they get worse.

Believe me, I know a lot about harm's way. It turns sharp left off the road to Shitsville when you're least expecting it.

There's been terrible things we seen, en't there? And more a coming, more'n likely. So I think I'd rather not know what's in the future. I'll stick to the present.

Life is hard, Mr. Scoresby, but we cling to it all the same." "And this journey we're on? Is that folly or wisdom?" "The greatest wisdom I know.

War asks many people to do unreasonable things.

Life is hard, Mr Scoresby, but we cling to it all the same.

Detrás de ellos había dolor, muerte, miedo; delante estaba el peligro, insondables misterios. Pero no estaban solos.

La vida es dura, señor Scoresby, pero aun así no dejamos de aferrarnos a ella.

some of what's good has to hurt us a little

But everyone will know...' 'So what? It's nothing to be ashamed of. Things happen to people's families all the time and it's not their fault. If you cope with it by being brave, people will admire you for it.

No one has the ability to laugh at their misfortunes like the women of the East End.

How Far back must we go to discover the beginning of trouble?

The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy.

That's what I learned from my father and what I loved learning from him: that you do what you have to do.

you will make mistakes on a scale you can't even dream of now—because there is no other way to reach the end.

The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy.

It's important that neighborhood life goes on as usual—otherwise, it's not only the stricken and their families who are victims, but Weequahic itself becomes a victim. At

And what is a man? He is someone who rises when life has knocked him down. He is someone who raises his fist to heaven when a storm has ruined his crop--and then plants again. And again. A man remains unbroken by the savage twists of fate. That man may never win. But when he sees himself reflected, he can be proud of what he sees. For low he may be in the present scheme of things: peasant, serf, or dispossessed. But he is unconquerable

A great man once told me there can be no courage without fear