Quotes About Adversity

Life packed a clever one-two punch: cruelty and absurdity.

It isn't what happens to us in life that creates our joy, but rather how we respond to what happens in our lives.

Life doesn't take itself seriously for long. Joy leaves an imprint even in the hardest sorrow.

If you take every challenge everyone has in their life and multiply it in severity you get what it's like in the life of an actor.

There was never a point in my life where I gave up. My marriage, as you know, fell apart.

Life lends itself to fear.

The nobility which exists within any cause is to be found not in any achievement, but instead within the struggle.

You got dealt some crappy cards. But you're the one who has to decide how to play them.

It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer's life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.

For most people, life is nasty, brutish, and short; for me, it has simply been nasty and brutish.

Standup is tough; if you are going through a hard period in your life, it is very hard to get up in front of people and be the happy guy in the room.

...everyone's life is different, and everyone's journey is different.

Life is one damned kitten after another." Mehitabel the Alley Cat

One bad day could turn into a bad year if you're not careful. Or, a bad rest of your life if you're not careful. Because of one day!

If life is a video game, then most of us have no chance of winning, if by winning you mean succeeding in a quest or saving a princess.

We had so much in common [with June Hillary] that we just carried on with life as we had been doing. It wasn't easy, but it was - I realise now that it was the only thing to do.

Fretting grief the enemy of life.

It often falls, in course of common life, that right long time is overborne of wrong.

In my life I have always found ways of dealing with a situation.

[The] public path of life Is dirty.

Doubtless, the life of an Irregular is hard; but the interests of the Greater Number require that it shall be hard.

I'm working and it's great. Life's great. Believe me on that. So what if I had a stroke? I'm getting on with things.

Every knock is a boost.

I think in life we get very caught up in the minutia and, unfortunately, it generally takes some sort of tragedy in your life to put things in perspective.