Quotes About Adversity

AMISSION  (AMI'SSION)   n.s.[amissio, Lat.]Loss.

The black dog I hope always to resist, and in time to drive, though I am deprived of almost all those that used to help me… When I rise my breakfast is solitary, the black dog waits to share it, from breakfast to dinner he continues barking...

It was "The devil of a Sex." It was a cursed thing, he said, that a man could be neither happy with them, nor without them. Devil's baits was another of his compliments to us. He hardly mentioned my name.

What merit does her patience add to her other merits! How has her calamity endeared her to me! If ever I shall be heavily afflicted, God give me her amiable, her almost meritorious patience in sufferings!

And yet that hardness brings out the softness in us all

We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

An easy and luxurious existence does not train men to effort or encounter with difficulty; nor does it awaken that consciousness of power which is so necessary for energetic and effective action in life.

Sooner or later you learn that there's a conspiracy of little people in this world to cut you down to their size. And then you grow up and make your choice: to live on their terms or your own.

Instead of the cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung.

He'd wanted to die on the spot, but he had the rotten luck of living through it.

Bad things happen when you least expect them

You've had a lousy life up till now, no denying that. But if you let it ruin the rest of your life, who's the fool? Who will you be spiting? You, that's who.

Like herbs in a pestle, life steadily ground out the essence of those who did not have access to comforts.

She had never been afraid to be Black in a White world, and she had sure taken a lot of abuse because of it.

Every pain be gold.

I know, ain't evils in no life nor cruelties in no red hell can change the vally heart of Ice Cream Star.

When you face writer's block, just lower your standards and keep going.

Sometimes you just have to go through the crash and see if you can walk away on two legs.

Each was over fifty and poor, probably homeless, wearing clothes that hadn't been washed this year. They were the same type of man you could see in any city in America, in a little park or square just off downtown, halfway to skid row. I think they started making them after the Civil War; fighters who'd lost their wars and lost their fight. Even when their side won, they lost.

Age is terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back

Now, go shovel some shit.

When I first submerged my feet into frigid water, they hurt so badly I yanked them out again. I persisted, dunking them for longer and longer periods, until the cold finally blistered.

Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. It makes you ache and muddies your head...