Quotes About Adversity

Grips slipped. Hers had from every surface. She's shaped nothing after all, only been crushed and reshaped. No wonder she felt for the brownstones, the cripples, now filling chaotically with no regard for her plan.

Behold the onset of my flinty tone. Along with so much else, a soft-tissue sarcoma can apparently drain the exultation from one's prose.

Often it was the most unlikely people who found within themselves a spark of something greater. It was probably always there, but most people are never tested, and they go through their whole lives without ever knowing that when things are at their worst, they are at their best.

It's true I didn't love the job, but I did want the money. If I was too incompetent for ordinary work, I would have to do something extraordinary or face destruction.

No one fired a pistol to mark the start of the race to the bottom. The earth just tilted and everyone slid into the hole.

Nothing goes away. Not on its own. You deal with it, or it deals with you.

Use humor as aggressively as chemo. Laugh until your hair falls out. There is nothing that can't be played for a laugh.

D'après toi, pourquoi es-tu ici, Oskar ? - Je suis ici, docteur, parce que maman est inquiète que la vie me mette devant des difficultés insurmontables. - Est-ce qu'elle a raison de s'inquiéter ? - Pas vraiment. La vie est une difficulté insurmontable.

I am not a bad person, he said. I am good person who has lived un a bad time.

Quand un vrai génie apparaît en ce bas monde, on peut le reconnaitre à ce signe que les imbéciles sont tous ligués contre lui.

Cuando en el mundo aparece un verdadero genio puede reconocérsele por este signo: todos los necios conjuran contra él.

the thirst I had of seeing the world, notwithstanding my past misfortunes, continuing as violent as ever.

Even drought bears fruit. Even death is a seed.

They say the Lord never gives us more than we can bear. This is only true of money and cleavage.

Cada uno de nuestros duelos es único y cada manera de afrontarlos es irrepetible…

Perdemos no sólo a través de la muerte sino también siendo abandonados, cambiando, siguiendo adelante.

somos quienes somos gracias a todo lo perdido y a cómo nos hemos conducido frente a esas pérdidas.

De hecho, somos quienes somos gracias a todo lo perdido y a cómo nos hemos conducido frente a esas pérdidas.

No hay pérdida que no implique una ganancia

que no importa cuán listos seamos, a veces nos toca perder, [...]

Aprendí, muy pequeña que la vida tiene un lado oscuro, y que ése me había tocado a mi

From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.

Hay una dignidad en la derrota que a duras penas le corresponde a la victoria.

A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end. This is even stronger in the case of the artist. Everything that happens, including humiliations, embarrassments, misfortunes, all has been given like clay, like material for one's art. One must accept it.