Adversity Quotes

"If my boss knew how unproductive I am on Fridays, he wouldn’t want me here either."

- James Johnson

"Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom."

- Lauren Oliver

"Remember me and smile, for it is better to forget than to remember me and cry."

- Dr. Seuss

"There’s nothing good about goodnight when it means goodbye."

- Jeff Thomas

"Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained."

- Jonathan Harnisch

"Goodbye always makes my throat hurt."

- Charlie Brown

"To part is the lot of all mankind. The world is a scene of constant leave-taking, and the hands that grasp in cordial greeting today, are doomed ere long to unite for the last time when the quivering lips pronounce the word, farewell."

- R.M. Ballantyne

"To die and part is a less evil; but to part and live, there, there is the torment."

- George Lansdowne

"I don't like a long goodbye, for fear my heart may break and weep."

- Sivi le poète

"The rain outside fell faster and harder as memories splash into my eye. Everything reminds me of you, it's so hard to say goodbye."

- Joy Marino

"Remember me and smile, for it is better to forget than to remember me and cry"

- Dr. Seuss

"Goodbye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory, and there you will always be."

- Disney

"The two hardest things to say in life is hello for the first time and goodbye for the last."

- Moira Rogers

"The two hardest things to say in life are hello for the first time and goodbye for the last."

- Moira Rogers

"The only way to make a bid farewell bearable is to ground it in good sense and philosophy."

- Atul Gawande

"Goodbye is the saddest word I'll ever hear."

- Celine Dion

"It always is harder to be left behind than to be the one to go..."

- Bodie Thoene

"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more in imagination than in reality."

- Seneca

"Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Our virtues and our failures are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more."

- Nikola Tesla

"Unhappy is the land that needs a hero."

- Bertolt Brecht, through the mouth of Galileo

"It was an unbearable thought ... for Kepler that, on the one hand, human reason enables insight into the wonders of Nature (and “only science reveals wonders”), into the harmonic order of the world, but, on the other, that human life generally passes in disharmony, driven by quarrel, conflict, hate, and war."

- Walther Gerlach on Johannes Kepler

"I don’t want to paint with a broad brush here, but every single contractor in the world is a miserable, incompetent thief."

- Ron Swanson

"The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened."

- Frodo Baggins

"The most painful goodbyes are the ones that are never said and never explained."

"Even if you know what's coming, you're never prepared for how it feels."

"It's not the goodbye that hurts, but the flashbacks that follow."

"He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary."

"No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity."