Adversity Quotes

"Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them."

- Edgar Allan Poe

"Never to suffer would never to have been blessed."

- Edgar Allan Poe

"I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow."

- Edgar Allan Poe

"I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind."

- Edgar Allan Poe

"But as in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of today, or the agonies which are have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been."

- Edgar Allan Poe

"There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad Humanity may assume the semblance of a Hell -- but the imagination of man is no Carathis, to explore with impunity its every cavern."

- Edgar Allan Poe

"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?"

- Edgar Allan Poe

"Right now, this is a job. If I advance any higher, this would be my career. And if this were my career, I’d have to throw myself in front of a train."

- The Office

"Suicide is not an answer, it’s destruction."

- Al Green

"That’s the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it."

- Anderson Cooper

"I'm not glorifying it at all, I'm just basically telling you that sometimes I have suicidal thoughts. And maybe I should seek help, or maybe it's not that deep."

- ASAP Rocky

"I suffered from severe depression for over a decade. My condition deteriorated steadily. I was suicidal."

- Byron Katie

"I was friendless, I was hopeless, I was suicidal, lost my family - I mean, it was bad. Bottomed out, didn't know what I was going to do."

- Glenn Beck

"For a while I was suicidal and I tried to kill myself. I think I should have died about four times."

- Jack Osbourne

"There are people who are just suicidal, regardless. They are built to self-destruct."

- Miriam Toews

"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."

- Paulo Coelho

"It’s possible to transcend anything that doesn’t kill you."

- David Goggins

"they'll give a war and nobody will come."

- Carl Sandburg

"The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own."

- Aldous Huxley

"War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time."

- Robert Collier

"Adversity is an opportunity for heroism."

- Marv Levy

"You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."

- Walt Disney

"Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago it's a scandal."

- Brigitte Bardot

"Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place."

- Sarah Dessen

"Tears are the silent language of grief."

- Voltaire

"Kişi nesneleri düşündüğünde, bunlara karşı bir bağımlılık ortaya çıkar; bağımlılıktan arzu doğar; arzudan öfke doğar. Öfkeden yanılgı gelir; yanılgıdan aklın yitimi; aklın yitiminden ayrım kabiliyetinin çöküşü gelir. Ayrım kabiliyetinin yok oluşuyla kişi mahvolur."

"Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered."

"If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man."

"Warriors are not born; they are made through the fires of adversity."

- Unknown