Adversity Quotes

"Sometimes you need to get hit in the head to realize that you're in a fight."

- Michael Jordan

""So often in life things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great good fortune.""

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches."

- Yann Martel

"Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes."

- Gloria Naylor

"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."

- C.S. Lewis

"The Struggle is part of the story."

- Pinterest

"Nobody wanted me. Scouts told me to go to school, to forget baseball. Coaches said, ‘You’re never going to make it.’ I appreciated their honesty because I think when someone tells you something you may not like, you have to use that as fuel for motivation."

- Mike Piazza

"Loneliness is the ultimate poverty."

- Pauline Phillips

"It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder losing one."

- Chuck Tanner

"Baseball is a game of failure. It's about how you respond to adversity."

- Dave Roberts

"The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved."

- Mother Teresa

"Sometimes being surrounded by everyone is the loneliest, because you’ll realize you have no one to turn to."

- Soraya

"We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness."

- Albert Schweitzer

"Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me."

- Anne Hathaway

"The dominant feeling of the battlefield is loneliness."

- William Slim

"As I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach."

- Mary Roach

"Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate."

- Germaine Greer

"The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone."

- Ashley Montagu

"The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved."

- Mother Teresa

"Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty."

- Mother Teresa

"Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space."

- Janet Fitch

"There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock."

- Charles Bukowski

"People think being alone makes you lonely, but I don't think that's true. Being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest thing in the world."

- Kim Culbertson

"The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The worst kind of loneliness in the world is the isolation that comes from being misunderstood. It can make people lose their grasp on reality."

- Shyza Chaudhry

"Age is just a number, but sometimes that number can be a pain in the neck."

"You know you’re getting old when you have more candles on your cake than friends at your party."

"The death of any loved parent is an incalculable lasting blow. Because no one ever loves you again like that."

"The only thing worse than being lonely is having someone who makes you feel lonely."

"The pain of loneliness is something only the lonely can understand."

- Unknown