Quotes about Adversity
There are for each of us several parallelisms between our intelligence, our habits, and our character, which develop without a break, and break only in the great disturbances of life.
— Victor Hugo
People who are overwhelmed with troubles never do look back. They know only too well that misfortune follows in their footsteps.
— Victor Hugo
We live in the midst of a gloomy society. Success; that is the lesson which falls drop by drop from the slope of corruption.
— Victor Hugo
It is the same with wretchedness as with everything else. It ends by becoming bearable.
— Victor Hugo
He who has not been a determined accuser during prosperity should hold his peace in adversity.
— Victor Hugo
Supreme resources spring from extreme resolutions. To embark in death is sometimes the means of escaping a shipwreck; and the lid of the coffin becomes a plank of safety.
— Victor Hugo
Errors make excellent projectiles.
— Victor Hugo
He saw nothing of all this. People who are crushed do not look behind them. They know but too well the evil fate which follows them.
— Victor Hugo
Great perils have this fine characteristic, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
— Victor Hugo
Hope in a child who has never known anything but despair is a sweet and touching thing.
— Victor Hugo
Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.
— Milan Kundera
Failures can be God's little whispers (or) a full earthquake in our lives because we didn't listen to the whispers
— Oprah Winfrey