Quotes about Adversity

For when a man of high degree meets with adversity, he feels the strangeness of his fallen state more keenly than a sufferer of long standing.

Sometimes life makes you older than your age.

In any case you mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.

And so we beat on, books against the critics, borne back ceaslessly into rewrites.

And courage to me meant ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life--not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding the bleakness of living.

I talk with the authority of failure.

Is your generation so soft that they talk of going to pieces if life doesn't always present itself in terms of beautiful, easy decisions?

Professor Dohmler raised himself like a legless man mounting a pair of crutches.

Well, I've had a very bad time, Nick, and I'm pretty cynical about everything.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

When kids run up to me and ask, 'What happened?' I just lean over and whisper, 'Cigarettes.' And once I was in a car and this girl at traffic lights was giving me the eye. She could only see my head, so I decided to do a 360 in the car seat to freak her out. Her face was like, 'Whoa, what is going on?' She sped off really quickly.