Quotes About Adversity

Although it is unjust, he thought. But I will show him what a man can do and what a man endures.

The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIO It is necessary to be very strong against something

I guess you are all right. That was bad luck all right. Plenty bad luck.

He lived in Udine and came out in this way nearly every day to see how things were going, and things went very badly.

Now you are getting confused in the head, he thought. You must keep your head clear. Keep your head clear and know how to suffer like a man. Or a fish, he thought.

The world breaks everyone and later many are strong at the broken places.

Fight them," he said. "I'll fight them until I die.

This is a bad life for good children

You lose them the same way your lose a battalion; by errors of judgment, orders that are impossible to fulfill, and through impossible conditions.

I may not be as strong as I think,' the old man said, 'But I know many tricks and I have resolution.

The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not. On the question you raised, the effects of wounds vary greatly. Simple wounds which do not break bone are of little account. They sometimes give confidence. Wounds which do extensive bone and nerve damage are not good for writers, nor anybody else.-Interview for the Paris Review, 1956

My Latin is very beat up," Thomas Hudson said. "Along with my Greek, my English, my head, and my heart. All I know how to speak now is frozen daiquiri. ¿Tú hablas frozen daiquiri tú?

The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

I don't want to fool with it but what choice have I got? They don't give you any choice now. I can let it go; but what will the next thing be? I didn't ask for any of this and if you've got to do it you've got to do it.

I can write a short story in six words. For sale: baby shoes, never used

If the people show too much courage on this world, the society must choke them to break them - and by that, of course, kill them. The society breaks everyone, but after that many become stronger on that broken places. And those it cannot broke, it kills them.

We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.

Pero el hombre no está hecho para la derrota —dijo—. Un hombre puede ser destruido, pero no derrotado.

It is in defeat that we become Christian.

the world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places

Ara went down and Thomas Hudson was alone with the night and the sea and he still rode it like a horse going downhill too fast across broken country.

El hombre no está hecho para la derrota; un hombre puede ser destruido, pero no derrotado.

Mas o homem não foi feito para a derrota — disse em voz alta. — Um homem pode ser destruído, mas nunca derrotado