Quotes About Adversity

Bad things don't just grow on one path, they're everywhere.

Only when things fall apart do you realize it can happen to you. You never think it can happen to you, until it does.

It's easier to get into a hole than get out of it (Arab proverb).

It's not so bad to be a prisoner, if you're working on an escape.

Shikata ga nai," Maya said sardonically. There is no other choice.

But that was life on Mars. They could be dead within minutes of any number of untoward events, as always.

her unfortunate and unfair childhood, she hadn't. And as much as she hated to admit it, deep down, she still resented her sister for having a much better father than she'd had—a father who had loved and adored her, spent time with her one to two weekends every month, and who had willingly made his child support payments on

Nothing short of physical handicap has ever made anybody turn over a new leaf.

What a pity it was, he thought, that she wasn't better-looking, that she didn't read the articles in the three-halfpenny Press that told you which colour lipstick went with which natural colouring. With twenty per cent more of what she lacked in these ways, she'd never have run into any of her appalling difficulties: the vices and morbidities bred of loneliness would have remained safely dormant until old age.

There is no life raft' you're just freaking swimming all the time.

What could a doormat rear but a pair of boots?

Daniel var en mand som forstod adskillig, han hadde været ute for et og andet i livet, hadde mistet både sin farsgård og sin kjæreste, han visste hvad omsorg og rømmekoller og godt mot betydde.

I am like the salmon- i have to swim against the current- i have to.

How steadily my predicament had gotten worse! By now I was so utterly denuded of objects that I didn't even have a comb left, or a book to read when I felt hopeless.

I am like the salmon- i have to go against the stream- i have to.

Ja vi er landstrykere på jorden. Vi vandrer veier og ulende, stundom kravler vi, stundom går vi opprett og trår hverandre ned. Som nu Daniel så trådte han ned og ble selv nedtrådt.

Human beings push against each other and trample on each other; some sink exhausted to the ground and serve as a bridge for others, some perish—they are the ones least fitted for coping with the push, and they perish. That can't be helped. But the others flourish and blossom. Such is life's immortality. All this, mind you, they knew at the pump.

Oliver was made of sterner stuff, less delicate and sensitive, more carefree, in short, the right human clay; he could endure life. Who had taken a harder knock than he? But a tiny upward turn in his fortunes, a lucky theft, a successful swindle, restored him to contentment.

Hvorledes det gik i byen? Det gik ikke, nei.

I will fight any battle for you, crush any adversity. Because you are mine, beautiful girl. I love you so madly that the past before you feels sane...

Nix had told Emma before she'd left for Europe that on this trip she would 'do that which you were born to do.' Apparently, Emma was born to get kidnapped by a deranged Lykae. Her fate sucked.

I'm on a man-fast. Why bother with them? the good ones are always taken. Or they're weirdly uminterested in a capricious wild child with continuous legal problems~ Carrow the Incarcerated

I was with the boy that monsters should fear.

Wait! Conrad said. Did someone... one of my enemies set this fire? Nix turned back with a grin. Unless you'd pissed off some wirring-hungry nutrias, then I'm going with no.