Quotes about Adversity
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time and understanding, very grateful for!
- Oscar Wilde
There is not one among us in whom a devil does not dwell; at some time, on some point, that devil masters each of us... It is not having been in the Dark House, but having left it, that counts.
- Theodore Roosevelt
If you are going through a time of discouragement, there is a time or great personal growth ahead.
- Oswald Chambers
The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under!
- Anne Frank
If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.
- Anne Frank
I'm currently in the middle of a depression. I couldn't really tell you what set it off, but I think it stems from my cowardice, which confronts me at every turn.
- Anne Frank
I had to hold my head up high and put a bold face on things, but the thoughts keep coming anyways.
- Anne Frank
How can I make it clear to him that what appears easy and attractive will drag him down into the depths, depths where there is no comfort to be found, no friends and no beauty, depths from which it is almost impossible to raise oneself?
- Anne Frank
People who flush easily become even more agitated when they feel themselves getting hot under the collar, and they quickly lose to their opponents.
- Anne Frank
I'm afraid my common sense, which was in short supply to begin with, wil be used up too quickly and I won't have any left by the time the war is over.
- Anne Frank
It won't do us or those outside any good if we continue to be as gloomy as we are now. And what would be the point of turning the Secret Annex into a Melancholy Annex?
- Anne Frank
I can easily quote the saying: Misfortunes never come singly.
- Anne Frank