Quotes about Adversity

Misery is the company of lawsuits.

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Make mistakes and make bad decisions: you learn from them.

The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over.

Listen, baby, people do funny things. Specially us. The cards are stacked against us and just trying to stay in the game, stay alive and in the game, makes us do funny things. Things we can't help. Things that make us hurt one another. We don't even know why.

Well, if a man don't HAVE a chance, then he has to TAKE a chance!

Tough shit, buddy. Your tough shit...

Before and since, all her effort was directed not on avoiding pain but on getting through it as quickly as possible.

Didn't everything on God's earth have or acquire defense?

The one set of plans she had made—getting away from Sweet Home—went awry so completely she never dared life by making more.

When he was drifting, thinking only about the next meal and night's sleep, when everything was packed tight in his chest, he had no sense of failure, of things not working out. Anything that worked at all worked out.

They had become an occasional mutter, like the interior sounds a woman makes when she believes she is alone and unobserved at her work: a sth when she misses the needle's eye; a soft moan when she sees another chip in her one good platter; the low friendly argument with which she greets the hens.