logo

Quotes About Adversity

Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness.
~ Shirley Hazzard
Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.
~ Robin Green
Happiness isn't something this island yields easily; the ground is too rocky and the sun too sparse for it to flourish.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it's hard.
~ George H. W. Bush
I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.
~ Pierre Salinger
Happiness is a bull's-eye, awaiting arrows of pain.
~ Ellen Hopkins
You have to learn to smile through your pain. Sometimes it's all we got.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Misfortune, no less than happiness, inspires us to dream.
~ Honore de Balzac
He had awoken too late for happiness, but not for strength, and could feel an austere joy, as of a warrior who is homeless but stands fully armed.
~ E.M. Forster, Maurice
When life gives you pain, accept it. When life gives you happiness, reject it.
~ Santosh Kalwar
Joy weathers any storm: Happiness rides the waves.
~ Todd Stocker
If you think only sunshine brings you happiness, then you have not danced in the rain
~ Unknown
We Live and we Learn but we don't always Laugh.
~ Andrew Carson
Wind and breeze are separated todayCrimson twilight denies to fade away Grass blades turn brown to match the soilWe pretend to smile at every turmoil
~ Munia Khan
Obstacles accelerate transformation
~ Pooja Ruprell
Abundant living is realizing that life is a privilege whether it's adhering to our scripts or not.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
There's this human capacity for joy and endurance, even when things are at their worst. A joy that occurs not despite our suffering, but within it.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
If you fall in darkness, there will be light. If your fall enter depression, there is some sort of happiness. Fall but get up. Weak but be strong. Life is just beginning
~ Claire Lunette
Because minds do blow and hearts do break. Those are not just sayings. And wolves and roaches are not the only creatures that chew off their legs to get out of traps—human beings do that, too.
~ Robin Silverman, Lemon Reef
If someone left, mean not your happiness gone surely, Happiness dependant not on others but yourself but be.[223] - 4 (Thoughts)
~ Munindra Misra, Eddies of Life
Even the best Mindset will become contaminated and eventually blunted in a toxic organisational culture.
~ Tony Dovale
You can't feel the essence of Happiness unless you overcome your Sadness.
~ Mohith Agadi
The more you cry today, the more stronger and happier you'll be tomorrow.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson