Adversity Quotes

"Sins destroy the heart the same way poison destroy the body."

- Imam Ibn al-Qayyim (RA)

"The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all."

- Walt Disney Company

"Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen."

- Amy Winehouse

"Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief."

- Dave Grohl

"No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe, things that happen unwieldy. You cannot turn to her anymore, and it changes your life forever."

- Adriana Trigiani

"Having children is like living in a frat house — nobody sleeps, everything’s broken, and there’s a lot of throwing up."

- Ray Romano

"Every day when you’re raising kids, you feel like you could cry or crack up and just scream ‘This is ridiculous!’ because there’s so much nonsense, whether it’s what they’re saying to you or the fact that there’s avocado or poop on every surface."

- Kristen Bell

"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

"People who go through rehab or a halfway house walk a tough road together and not all of them make it. We knew we faced a powerful adversary that demanded respect. Unlike combat, the adversary was inside us."

- Rob Delaney

"I was mad at that bottle. At how it allowed me to stay complacent and numb."

- Jessica Simpson

"And something inside me just broke. That’s the only way I could describe it."

- Ranata Suzuki

"I wanted to write down exactly what I felt, but somehow the paper stayed empty, and I could not have described it any better."

- WTM

"Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer."

- Dorothy Rowe

"It is not the bruises on the body that hurt. It is the wounds of the heart and the scars on the mind."

- Aisha Mirza

"Bitterness is like a cancer that enters the soul."

- Sir Terry Waite

"A person does not have an understanding of the religion of Islam until he thinks of a hardship as being a blessing, and comfort and luxury as being a tribulation."

"No servant is punished with a punishment worse than the hardening of the heart."

"Depression is a war you fight alone, but don’t have to win by yourself."

- Unknown

"Sometimes, the only way to cope with overwhelming emotions is to hope you can fall asleep and find some relief."

"Your depression is trying to get you alone and then it will try to kill you."

"Depression is such a cruel punishment. There are no fevers, no rashes, no blood tests to send people scurrying in concern, just the slow erosion of self, as insidious as cancer. And like cancer, it is essentially a solitary experience, a room in hell with only your name on the door."

"Depression is feeling like you’ve lost something but having no clue when or where you last had it. Then, one day you realize what you lost was yourself."

"Nobody ever tells you that emptiness weighs the most."

"I don’t feel sad. I don’t feel anything."

"Depression is a lot like drowning, except that you can see everyone else around you breathing."

"I think I’m afraid to be happy because whenever I get too happy, something bad always happens."

"Nothing is more depressing than having everything and still feeling really sad."

"The difference between your mind and my mind is this: Your mind wants to keep you alive, and mine wants to kill me."

"What’s wrong? I’m ugly. I’m fat. I’m a failure. I’m depressed. I’m suffering. I hate this world. I hate myself. I’m imperfect. I can’t do anything right. I’m disgusting. I’m just not okay. Nothing, I’m fine."

"Depression is like a black hole, some days you’re lucky to get out of bed."