Adversity Quotes

"There is no grief like the grief that does not speak."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps."

- William Blake

"People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim."

- Ann Landers

"Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way."

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired."

- Robert Southey

"Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not."

- Xenophon

"There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know."

- Jean Paul

"A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times."

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"If there’s a cause worth fighting for, it’s this: children belong in families."

- Nicole Skellenger

"There are times when the adoption process is exhausting and painful and makes you want to scream. But, I am told, so does childbirth."

- Scott Simon

"I see you, I hear you, I feel you, said no one."

- Rebecca Leqve

"Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry."

- Susan B. Anthony

"Whoever says friendship is easy has obviously never had a true friend!"

- Bronwyn Polson

"Goodbyes, they often come in waves."

- Jarod Kintz

"Don’t ever tell anyone anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."

- J.D. Salinger

"There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief."

- Aeschylus

"Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely."

- Charles M. Schulz

"It’s so hard saying goodbye… it’s hard saying goodbye to all the things that one has held dear for weeks, months, sometimes years."

- Saqib Saleem

"Saying goodbye is the hardest solution to any problem. But sometimes, it’s the only choice we have."

- Anurag Prakash Ray

"She didn’t resist the rush of tears. If there was no sadness about leaving New York, then her time here would’ve meant nothing."

- Rachel Hauck

"I thought I was stronger than a word, but I just discovered that having to say goodbye to you is by far the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do."

- Colleen Hoover

"Two words. Three vowels. Four consonants. Seven letters. It can either cut you open to the core and leave you in ungodly pain, or it can free your soul and lift a tremendous weight off your shoulders. The phrase is: It’s over."

- Maggi Richard

"In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they'd learned to swim"

- U2 'Until The End Of The World'

"When someone you love dies, and you’re not expecting it, you don’t lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time – the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes – when there’s a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she’s gone, forever – there comes another day, and another specifically missing part."

- John Irving

"For as long as the world spins and the earth is green with new wood, she will lie in this box and not in my arms."

- Lurlene McDaniel

"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing. At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in. It is so uninteresting. Yet I want the others to be about me. I dread the moments when the house is empty. If only they would talk to one another and not to me."

- C.S. Lewis

"The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love."

- Kristina McMorris

"Life has a way of testing a persons will, either by having nothing happen at all, or by having it all happen at once."

"Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend."

"I hate the feeling when you have to say goodbye to someone you want to spend every minute with."