Quotes About Adversity

Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.

Hardships make or break people.

Child, it's a very bad thing for a woman to face the worst that can happen to her, because after she's faced the worst she can't ever really fear anything again. ...Scarlett, always save something to fear— even as you save something to love...

Margaret Murphy

enough to spark a little of her accustomed fight.

There's a light at the end of the tunnel. And it's a train.

Faith is secured by adversity, but endangered by security.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

those who were born at the depths of one great crisis who would be able to cope with the next.

When a man meets catastrophe on the road, he looks in his purse, but a woman looks in her mirror.

The blade must past threw the fire, else it breaks.

Most people cope in some fashion or other with the various strains under which they live, or they simply come out in spots, or leave home, or get drunk.

that proved the

Drifting with things is a habit it takes almost dying to break.

Mr. Campion felt that among the ordeals by fire and by water there should now be numbered the ordeal by dinner at Socrates Close.

Most oddly he was not frightened. That alone he had learned from experience. With the danger would come the courage.

Consider, o consider the lowly mole. His small hands are sore and his snout bleedeth.

Fall down seven times, get up eight.

boat had swept away most of their catch. Once

There was a girl, once upon a time and in your time. She embraced her life up to a point, then rejected it, and from that rejection have come all her difficulties.

But how could they be tormenters if Branza refused to be tormented by them?

And here she was, back where terrors could immobilize her, and wonders too, where life might become gulps of strong ale rather than sips of bloom-tea. She did not know whether she was capable of lifting the cup, let alone drinking the contents.

Stories can seem like tragedies, depending where they stopped.

Margot Benary-Isbert