Quotes About Adversity

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.

Watch a man in times of... adversity to discover what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off.

[The people] were given over in troops to disease and death.

Life is one long struggle in the dark.

It is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.

Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.

The first years of my life are of no imprtance. At the age of nine, I was packed off to a preparatory school in the South of England, and for the next four years led the usual life of a preparatory-school boy. I indulged in midnight feasts and was periodically beaten.

This dog won't hunt. This horse won't jump. You get the general drift. However, he keeps on trying, but the fire won't burn, the kindling is wet, and the faint glow of the ember is weak and dying. He has no other choice then but to let It go and take a nap on the ground there, lying Next to her—for whom Dame Fortune has more Woes and tribulations yet in store.

What humiliation when someone who stood next to me heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or when someone heard the shepherd boy singing and again I heard nothing. Such misfortune brought me to the edge of despair, and I might have brought an end to my life—only my art held me back.

I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

Trying to figure out what happened to me isn't important. It's what I do with what I've learned that counts.

There are no silver bullets in life; there's just the long, messy climb out of the pit you've dug yourself.

When it rains, her father said it pours.

Corinne is one of those people for whom life is just the space between crises.

The old man was cranky, bitter bastard, but it's the thorn in your side that leaves the biggest hole.

How can you ricochet from a moment where you are on top of the world to one where you are crawling at rock bottom

There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots as there are in the bright ones.

Maybe bad things happen because it's the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look lie.

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo - far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

Danger came in different packages, at different points in a lifetime.

What if we did get so lucky that we're due for something terrible?

tal vez las cosas malas suceden porque es la única forma de que sigamos recordando cómo deberían ser las buenas.