Adversity Quotes

"The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last forever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year—the days when summer is changing into autumn—the crickets spread the rumor of sadness and change."

- E.B. White

"You will lose someone you can't live without, and your heart will be badly broken."

- Anne Lamott

"If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart."

- Oswald Chambers

"The sin which is indulged to the greatest extent, which separates us from God and produces so many spiritual disorders, and which are contagious, is selfishness."

- Ellen G. White

"Time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead."

- J.K. Rowling

"Delay always breeds danger, and to protract a great design is often to ruin it."

- Miguel de Cervantes

"Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe."

- John Milton

"I wish I could go back to the day I met you and just walk away."

- J.D. Salinger

"I’m not crying because of you; you’re not worth it. I’m crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are."

- Steve Maraboli

"It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more."

- J.K. Rowling

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

- Henry Rollins

"Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you."

- Veronica Roth

"Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the soul."

- E.H. Chapin

"To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing."

- Dorothy Thompson

"If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?"

- Jodi Picoult

"There is no greater sorrow than to recall, in misery, the time when we were happy."

- Dante Alighieri

"The worst feeling isn't being lonely, it's being forgotten by someone you'd never forget."

- Helen Hywater

"Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime."

- Mineko Iwasaki

"Tears are words the mouth can't say nor can the heart bear."

- Joshua Wisenbaker

"Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, 'It might have been.'"

- Kurt Vonnegut

"We must understand that sadness is an ocean, and sometimes we drown, while other days we are forced to swim."

- R.M. Drake

"It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying."

- Charlie Chaplin

"One thing you can't hide is when you're crippled inside."

- John Lennon

"Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it’s there if you look deep."

- Bob Marley

"You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness."

- Jonathan Safran Foer

"There are some things you can only learn in a storm"

""I believe God gave us crises for some reason—and it certainly wasn’t for us to say that everything about them is bad.""

- Unknown

"Now, you are just a stranger with all my secrets."