Adversity Quotes

"Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie."

- Banksy

"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don’t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."

- Bill Watterson

"My uncle's dying wish – he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair."

- Rodney Dangerfield

"Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now."

- Charles Bukowski

"I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again."

- Charles Bukowski

"First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish."

- Anne Lamott

"Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths."

- Drew Barrymore

"Life’s tough, but it’s tougher when you’re stupid."

- John Wayne

"It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down."

- Tupac Shakur

"Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell."

- Joni Mitchell

"It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell."

- Major General William T. Sherman

"Nothing's ever easy as long as you go on living."

- Marilyn Monroe

"There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery."

- Dante Alighieri

"Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew."

- Henry Rollins

"No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply."

- Billy Graham

"I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair."

- Joseph Addison

"Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult."

- Cristiano Ronaldo

"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions."

- William Shakespeare

"The older I get the less surprised I think I'd be if a random body part just fell off one day."

"Apparently rock bottom has a basement."

"Being an adult is looking both ways before you cross the street and getting hit by an airplane."

"If I wanted to kill myself I would climb your ego and jump to your IQ."

"The most expensive part of having a daughter is all the wine you need to cope."

- Unknown

"Trying to understand my teenage daughter is like trying to charge my phone with a pasta noodle."

- Unknown

"This too shall pass"

"Bad times make a good man."