Adversity Quotes

"Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything."

- C.S. Lewis

"Sometimes, when one person is absent, the whole world seems depopulated."

- Alphonse de Lamartine

"There is something about losing a mother that is permanent and inexpressible—a wound that will never quite heal."

- Susan Wiggs

"Don't Run. Don't Make Me Shoot You. You Were Expensive."

- Dr. Jumba Jookiba

"It Was Raining, And They Went For A Drive. What Happened To Yours?"

- Lilo

"What Happened To Yours?"

- Lilo

""Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.""

- C.S. Lewis

"Living in an apartment block alone sometimes feels like my room could topple backwards off the building, and no one would notice."

- Ellen van Neerven

"The devastating punch we took on September 11 still reverberates throughout American society."

- Tom Harkin

"Bad luck either destroys you or it makes you the man you really are."

- Miguel Torres

""Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.""

- Benjamin Franklin

"It is really challenging to be by yourself, to be the bread-winner, to make sure your child is having a complete and lovely childhood — and it’s all on you, sort of, on the day-to-day."

- Minnie Driver

"When you’re a single parent, you’re often lonely yet seldom alone. There is no backup… It is mothering without a net."

- Amy Dickinson

"With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood."

- Isadora Duncan

"When you're a single parent, you're often lonely yet seldom alone. There is no backup… It is mothering without a net."

- Amy Dickinson

"Oh yes, the past can hurt. But from the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it."

- Rafiki

"The past can hurt. But from the way I see it, you can either run from it or learn from it."

- Rafiki

"Motherhood is a beautiful, wonderful gift... except when it's not."

- Rachel Hollis

"Motherhood is the most challenging as well as the utmost satisfying vocation in this world."

- Nita Ambani

"Motherhood is nitty and gritty and brutal and wonderful. Sometimes, you're really in the trenches!"

- Constance Marie

"We may not want to say it out loud, but motherhood is hard."

- Stephanie Ruhle

"Challenges make life interesting and overcoming them makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

"Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith."

- Steve Jobs

"Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith."

- Steve Jobs

"I drink to forget I drink."

- Joe E. Lewis

"October was always the least dependable of months… full of ghosts and shadows."

- Joy Fielding

"I long for the days of pumpkins and ghosts; when the dead use homes and people as hosts."

- E. Reyes

"Sometimes we’re tested not to show our weaknesses, but to discover our strengths."

"I think the hardest part is that you rarely get to say goodbye. You are there for the end of life, but often you must leave it behind."

"The medicine of life is in the suffering and overcoming of our struggles."