Quotes About Adversity

porque "bastante amarga es la vida". Y tienen algo de razón: bastante amarga es la vida como para que, además, nos pongamos plañideros o mimosos o histéricos, sólo porque algo se puso en nuestro camino y no nos deja proseguir nuestra excursión hacia la dicha.

bastante amarga es la vida como para que, además, nos pongamos plañideros o mimosos o histéricos, sólo porque algo se puso en nuestro camino y no nos deja proseguir nuestra excursión hacia la dicha.

Allá donde normalmente va la dignidad, él sólo tiene un muñón; se la amputaron.

lo cierto es que la vida desde el principio me sacó ventajas y yo no he podido ni podré jamás recuperar el terreno perdido.

No cabía otra solución y salí adelante. Pero todo fue siempre demasiado obligatorio como para que pudiera sentirme feliz.

Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.

Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.

Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella." (spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa)

Tragedies don't kill you, she decided, "it's the messes. I can't stand messes. I'm not being a smart-cracker. You know I'm not when you meet me – don't you, honey?"9

Lo que me pase a mí no me importa. ¿O usted cree que después de la vida que llevé me va a asustar estar en una cárcel, con otras infelices como yo?" Juana fue condenada a nueve años de prisión.

They had never had anything but now they had nothing. Mary realized how different those two conditions were.

The next day, Mary walked through the rubble of their destroyed house. They had never had anything but now they had nothing. Mary realized how different those two conditions were.

Just when you think you've hit rock bottom, you realize you're standing on another trapdoor.

He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse and the scars. It's how you learn. And try to make improvements.

survivors.' The sea-spray had frozen in his and Todt's eyebrows and beards, white forests riming their faces.

that in the larger sense of life's struggle, most of us are wounded in combat.

There's been so much destruction and unhappiness around me – and my life has been a fairy tale.

We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it.

I had learned that you should always shout louder than your aggressor.

Life knocks a man down and he gits up and it knocks him down agin

Life is a difficult matter, and the more a simple man may learn of what greater men have thought, and taught, have spoken and have written, the better can he cope with any sort of life.

Now I shore as the devil won't waste no time tootlin' him. You know me better'n that. You know I'm made outen whale-bone and hell.' 'Ain't the whalebone gittin' a mite limber?' ''Tis, but the hell's hot as ever.

Master Ren: "To quote the poets.. we're fucked".

What does a wolf teach her pups but teeth and hunger? You didn't make me in your image. You made me into something worse.