Quotes About Adversity

You just keep moving forward and doing what you do and hope that it resonates with people. And if it doesn't, you just keep moving on until you find a project that does.

Each generation imagines that we're all going to hell. Each generation goes through a little hell and comes out heat tempered and better than before.

The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.

Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.

Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement.

As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.

...humanity learns true lessons only in cataclysm.

Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God.

I AM VERY MOVED BY SURVIVORS. BY PEOPLE WHO KNOW HOW TO OVERCOME A HANDICAP, A SITUATION, OR ANYTHING. VISITING THE HEARTS AND SOULS OF THOSE PEOPLE TEACHES ME A LOT ABOUT HUMANS AND HUMANITY.

Why is it beautiful that humanity keeps coming back? So does herpes.

Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race.

Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

We're not retreating, we're advancing in reverse.' --Skulduggery Pleasant

Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire.

Cancer is probably the most unfunny thing in the world, but I'm a comedian, and even cancer couldn't stop me from seeing the humor in what I went through.

Humor was a good way to hide the pain.

The funniest people I know always seem to be the ones surrounded by darkness. And that's probably why they're the funniest. The deeper the pit, the more humor you need to dig yourself out of it.

An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.

My coping mechanism with my dyslexia is to use wit and humor.

Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.

You can accept that things are awful and still have a sense of humor about it.

If I didn't have a sense of humor, how could I stand this trial now?