Quotes About Adversity

It's a hard life if you don't weaken.

After long enough, everyone in the world will be you enemy.

Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.

Because life is not fair, Albert. And the world is conspiring against you.

You take what you can get, I reckon. You take what you can get.

I'm living life as best I can - but I'm not exempt from failure and making bad choices.

All my life, since the time I was little, has been a long distraction. At least that is the way some people want to perceive it, but for me, it's given me a lot of strength.

It would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us back out into the world clean. But some dirt is destined to lingered.

Life gets so ridiculous, you just have to brush it off like sand and laugh. I think the laughter is good medicine for crap-itis.

Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.

Our past is the forge upon which we are hardened and tempered, to prepare us for the present. We are like a fine blade that must be hammered into shape before it can be ready to make its finest cuts.

Why bother inflicting enormous pain on yourself when sooner or later Life would certainly get around to doing it for you?

Always in life bad times will lead to great times.

I just want people to know you can get through stuff. I hope people can see that in what my life has been and where it is going.

This is how sad my life is: I got a scar from scratching my chicken pox too much. That's my big scar story. I really have no major scars.

Hate is nothing when weighed against survival. (Valentine)

Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah

You don't get it, Clary. You don't understand what it's like to live always at war, to grow up with battle and sacrifice. I guess it's not your fault. It's just how you were brought up-

Every thing in this world exist to wear you down

I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane.

I believe that worrying about a bad thing prepares you for it when it comes. If you worry, the bad thing doesn't hit you as hard. You can roll with the punch if you see it coming.

Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.

Wasn't hitting bottom the thing you had to do to knock some sense into yourself? Wasn't hitting bottom the thing that showed you which way was up?

Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.