Quotes About Adversity

I recited the poem to myself and wondered whether it was really possible for anyone to remain unstained by his environment. It was an idea contrary to Marxism, which held that the environment molded the man.

A big tree catches the wind' is a true saying.

it was wartime. People were being bombed out all over the place. Bad experience is more bearable when you are not the only sufferer.

Soha életemben nem követtem el b?nt - mondtam határozottan - Mi másért lenne ide bezárva, minthogy b?nt követett el? Éppen az bizonyítja, hogy b?nös, hogy itt van.

i was a prisoner of events

I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do.

when confidence is undermined or ruptured, it can be difficult to do the simplest things, or to take any enjoyment even in trying.

The real crunch comes when there is no yoghurt.

Suffering should always open the door to wisdom.

I'd pretend their words were water and let them roll off my back. Now, I'm nobody's duck, and their words stung a whole lot more than water.

You laugh, rap my woody shell with wicked whispers shaped like knuckles, then toss me aside. Lucky for me, I don't bruise easily. Besides, you loss is someone else's gain for I am coconut, and the heart of me is sweeter than you know.

The crashing sound of years lost shattered in her ears, and new fears emerged from the looking glass. Sometimes I wonder if she'll ever sing again.

Van Gogh became a painter because he had no ear for music.

when you can't climb your way out of such a hole, you tend to crouch down and call it home…

There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.

I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.

Always a friend or a comrade may fail you, and be the first to desert you in a time of adversity; but never will a KOPECK fail you, whatever may be your plight.

When she was widowed, there were still pleasing qualities in her, suitable for an unpretentious everyday life, and people sent matchmakers to her, but she declined any new matrimony and busied herself with the baking of savory pies.

Because of pressure, there are diamonds.

"Life is trouble," Zorba continued. "Death, no. To live—do you know what that means? To undo your belt and look for trouble!"

The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.

Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.

When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage! An invisible and all-powerful enemy—some call him God, others the Devil, seem to rush upon us to destroy us; but we are not destroyed.

Your feet on your defeat.