Adversity Quotes

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

- Joy Fielding

"Man is the cruelest animal."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"People speak sometimes about the 'bestial' cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel."

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Unprecedented financial pressures, and an ever-increasingly aggressive public culture, along with social, moral and spiritual fragmentation, are leading to lives being overwhelmed by stress, intolerable interior isolation and even quiet despair."

- Sean Brady

"You're right. Cancer is a shit-show. Like a Yakov Smirnoff opening for the Spin Doctors at the Iowa State Fair kind of shit-show."

- Deadpool

"I can’t protect you. With this collar on, my superpower is just unbridled cancer. Give me a bow and arrow and I'm basically Hawkeye."

- Deadpool

"I had a Liam Neeson nightmare. I dreamt I kidnapped his daughter and he just wasn't having it."

- Deadpool

"That you won’t like my idea and it makes you hate me. Then you fire me. Then I have to move back in with my parents and they’ll be ashamed of me. Then everyone finds out back home and laughs at me until my face melts off. Excuse me."

- Nate

"We got relegated when I was at Cardiff, my family’s team. My nana never spoke to me after that, just left me a box of sh!t in her will."

- Colin

"The world is full of evil people who do sh!tty things. But I can’t deal with that because I have to kick a little ball around. W-Which those same people love me for! That is until I f*ck up or... or I miss a penalty. Or... Or... Or I... I decide to fight back... and then they’re just gonna wanna ship me back wherever I f*cking came from."

- Sam

"I hope his kids shiv him in his sleep"

- Mae

"You’re a shitty old man with a tiny, shriveled penis. I feel sorry for your wife. Her life must be a constant hell"

- Nora

""Divorce isn’t such a tragedy. A tragedy’s staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.""

- Jennifer Weiner

""The process of discovering with somebody that you love that you don’t work is so painful.""

- Kate Hudson

""There’s no pain or failure like going through a divorce.""

- Jennifer Lopez

"No more romanticizing about how cool it is to be an entrepreneur. It’s a struggle to save your company’s life – and your own skin – every day of the week."

- Spencer Fry

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired and success achieved."

- Helen Keller

"No more romanticizing about how cool it is to be an entrepreneur. It’s a struggle to save your company’s life—and your own skin—every day of the week."

- Spencer Fry

"I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you're not alone."

- Dwayne Johnson

"I was a circus performer traversing the tightwire, and I could fall off into a vortex devoid of reality at any moment. There was, and had been for a very long time, an intense sense of despair."

- Suzie Burke

"I feel like I became a zombie Not alive, but I’m still walking And when the sunrise is upon me I’ll be waiting for the day to pass by, oh why? I became a zombie And there's nothing that can cure me So tomorrow I know I'll be just the same You'll see me wishin' to stop and close my eyes"

- Day6

"My heart is dark, like thе far side of the moon. Sometimes even my dreams are pressing down on me like a burden. A moment when I'm feeling down for no reason, sinking deeper and deeper in. Can't help but holdin' on. When will these small wounds. Finally become something I can be proud of?"

- NMIXX

"The death of a beloved is an amputation."

- C.S. Lewis

"In football, as in life, the team that can handle adversity is the team that will triumph."

"I always heard that immigrants had a really hard life when they came to America."

"Nothing is more painful than losing someone you love so dearly. I am so much broken, but I will pray for your departed soul every moment, brother!"

"RIP brother! You were so talented. You had a bright future ahead of you. But, unfortunately, you are gone too soon."

"I wish it were a dream. I hope I will wake up later and find you smiling beside me. I was hoping you could wake me from this nightmare."

"I would trade anything from my life to bring you back again, but some things in life are one-way. You can never rewind them. Rest in peace, my brother."

"You have left me with a broken heart and sadness in my soul. Every single day I miss you more. Rest in peace!"