Quotes About Adversity

El mundo rompe a todos y después muchos, son fuertes en los lugares rotos.

Now I have done what I can, he thought. Let him begin to circle and let the fight come.

I didn't know how I could feel any worse. But you can all right. I can promise you that.

I wish I had a stone for the knife," the old man said after he had checked the lashing on the oar butt. "I should have brought a stone." You should have brought many things, he thought. But you did not bring them, old man. Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

I drink a little now once in a while, just to drive the wolf out of the room

a brave man is always frightened three times by a lion; when he first sees his track, when he first hears him roar and when he first confronts him.

This is the first sort of letdown we've had. So let's not let it let us down. We'll have long baths and some drinks and a meal twice as expensive as we can afford and we'll go to bed and make wonderful love.

Sometimes all niceness gone and glad to get out on the street but always another day starting and then another night.

He wants to in the whirl of his own weakness. But the river is coming. By being forced to change, he'll be powerful in change.

I had hoped for something. Defeat? No. Something more. There isn't anything more. Except victory. It may be worse.

I don't know. I guess the cards we draw are those we get. You wouldn't like to re-deal would you, dealer? No. They only deal to you once and then you pick them up and play them. I can play them, if I draw any damn thing at all...

If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. 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 bit there will be no special hurry.

El hombre no está hecho para la derrota. Al hombre se le puede destruir, pero no derrotar.

It was easier to live under a regime than to fight it. But

We can go everywhere. -No, we can't. It isn't ours anymore. -It's ours. -No, it isn't. And once they take it away, you never get it back.

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

Keep your head clear and know how to suffer like a man. Or a fish.

Keep your head clear and know how to suffer like a man. Or a fish, he thought.

The man isn't born for defeats.He can fall from grace,but he cannot be defeated.

Ahora no es el momento de pensar en lo que no tienes. Piensa en lo que puedes hacer con lo que hay.

No matter how a man alone ain't got no bloody fucking chance.

Ali ?ovjek nije stvoren za poraze - re?e. - ?ovjek može propasti ali ne može biti poražen.

Dentuso je bio okrutan, vješt, snažan i pametan. Ali ja sam bio pametniji od njega. A možda i nisam. Možda sam bio samo bolje oboružan. - Nemoj sad razmišljati, stari - re?e starac. - Plovi samo dalje i ne daj se kad opet do?u! Ali moram razmišljati, pomisli. Ništa mi drugo ne preostaje. To, i bejzbol.

And what happened?' 'Much,' the woman said. 'Much. And all of it ugly. Even that which was glorious.