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Quotes About Adversity

The world's a bastard. Life just happens to people.
~ Lawrence Block
When rape is inevitable, lie back and enjoy it.
~ Lawrence Block
When I have a look at my own albums, it strikes me how thin they'd be but for war and rebellion.
~ Lawrence Block
Most people lie and let life play upon them like the tepid discharges of a douche-bag.
~ Lawrence Durell
Sad times May follow your tracks, Bad times May bar you from Saks, Add times When Satan in slacks Breaks down your self control.
~ Cole Porter
Giving up on life is easier than going through the hard times to find the good.
~ Joseph Parker
Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them.
~ Nancy Mitford
I was sad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. So I said, "Got any shoes you're not using?
~ Steven Wright
You gotta look for the good in the bad, the happy in your sad, the gain in your pain, and what makes you grateful not hateful.
~ Karen Salmansohn
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.
~ Kate Chopin
It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different.
~ Maya Angelou
I am six years old and instead of celebrating with birthday cakes, I chew on a piece of charcoal.
~ Loung Ung
I find that through the sad times, work is what made my continuing, not breaking down, possible. In work, I was always someone else and I subconsciously reveled in that.
~ Lauren Bacall
To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.
~ Aristotle
But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.
~ Alice Walker
Sorrow spares no one, and scars respect no person.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, Infamous
Ive never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didnt choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.
~ Juliette Binoche
Everybody's damaged by something.
~ Emma Donoghue, Room
Today,' said Lymond, 'if you must know, I don't like living at all. But that's just immaturity boggling at the sad face of failure. Tomorrow I'll be bright as a bedbug again.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Flowers that bloom in the winter may not survive till spring.
~ K. Hari Kumar
Growing up, my family was an enemy of the state. I have experienced more disappointment than joy, much more sad stories or desperate conditions.
~ Ai Weiwei
Sometimes life is about being sad and doing things anyway. Sometimes it's about being hurt and doing things anyway. The point isn't perfection. The point is doing it anyway.
~ Chloe Neill
Coming back to life' is perhaps the toughest battle we keep fighting forever. U never know when will ur life throw u down from Zenith to Nadir and then the journey restarts again...
~ Reetwika Banerjee