Adversity Quotes

"She lies there, deflating like a stuck balloon because she knew there would be pain and sometimes, as she's learning so quickly and much too early, we are alone with it. Despite Moms and Dads and all the others who might be hovering nearby, in the end we are alone with it."

- P. Carey Reid

"No one would ever find her here. Even from the high saddle there was no sign of the way she'd come, no path, no road, only the bent backs of the hills repeating themselves, over and over, on one side of the road all the way to the western mountains, on the other to the sea."

- Kristy Gunn

"He had built his own future brick by brick around himself but there were no doors or windows, at least that was the way it seemed at the time he had thought to himself, I am locked in, it was like one of those ghost stories where you wake up and you are sealed in a coffin."

- Dan Chaon

"For you, nothing is ever enough. Your hunger for love is so great and the hole so unfilled that everything gets swallowed up inside."

- Paullina Simons

"The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller, but for want of an understanding ear."

- Stephen King

"When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over."

- Audrey Hepburn

"Lonely, I’m so lonely, I have nobody to call my own."

- Akon

"Well, it’s down at the end of Lonely Street at the Heartbreak Hotel."

- Elvis Presley

"Don’t wanna be all by myself anymore."

- Celine Dion

"There is nothing more lonely or terrifying than feeling unheard."

- House of Cards

"In the beginning, everyone is there, but then they forget."

- Grey’s Anatomy

"I think loneliness probably kills more people than cancer."

- A Simple Favor

"People think I’m odd, so I know how it feels to be different, and I know how lonely that can be."

- Beauty and the Beast

"Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are."

- Arthur Golden

"I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone."

- Bobcat Goldthwait

"Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man."

- Thomas Wolfe

"The hardest thing in life is to find the right people to hire."

- Elon Musk

"I've proven I can hang in there, go through adversity, and pull tricks out of the bag."

- Brian Ortega

"There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity."

- Washington Irving

"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant."

- Horace

"It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line."

- Ashleigh Brilliant

"Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience."

- Laurence J. Peter

"You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am."

- On the Waterfront (1954)

"Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night."

- All About Eve (1950)

"What a dump."

- Beyond the Forest (1949)

"Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?"

- Little Caesar (1931)

"The hardest prison to escape, is your own mind."

- Bob Marley

"August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor."

- John Buchan

"August, the summer’s last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor."

- Henry Rollins

"Retirement: It’s not the end of your life, it’s the end of your bank account."

- Unknown