Quotes About Adversity

I eat death threats for breakfast!

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?

So many are the deaths we die Before we can be dead indeed.

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

Poverty is the worst form of death.

The worst thing that can happen is death, and that's not the worst thing in the world either.

If you can't beat 'em, cooperate 'em to death!

Failure? Scared to death of it.

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

I don't want to die without any scars.

When you are getting beat to death, get your head out of the mixer.

The beating on the tail of the snake may stop his progress a little, but the more vital parts must be struck before his poisonous death-dealing venom will be wiped out.

Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.

Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else.

I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.

You are facing death and danger and competition, but at any moment, you can decide to have a fearless mindset.

EVEN THOUGH I'M MARKED FOR DEATH, I'MA SPARK TILL I LOSE MY BREATH

Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death.

Make your attacker advance through a wall of bullets. I may get killed with my own gun, but he's gonna have to beat me to death with it, cause it's gonna be empty.

Dying is easy; it's living that's difficult.

You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went, you can curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.

If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath,I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,And speed glum heroes up the line of death.

The thorn of death falls from heaven, and its myriad forms leave us no room to move.