Adversity Quotes

"Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering, and it’s all over much too soon."

- Woody Allen

"Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. That 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

"If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them."

- Jodi Picoult

"The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony."

- Douglas Coupland

"Yes, there is joy, fulfillment, and companionship, but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering."

- Sylvia Plath

"When you’re surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you’re by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you’re really alone."

- Fiona Apple

"The fear of loss . . . it can destroy you as much as the loss itself."

- Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms

""The trouble with retirement is you never get a day off.""

- Abe Lemons

"The death of a parent is a profound and life-altering event for any family. Not only does it bring intense emotional grief, but it also fundamentally can change your family dynamics."

- Donna Galanti

"When I think of death, and of late the idea has come with alarming frequency, I seem at peace with the idea that a day will dawn when I will no longer be among those living in this valley of strange humors. I can accept the idea of my own demise, but I am unable to accept the death of anyone else. I find it impossible to let a friend or relative go into that country of no return. Disbelief becomes my close companion, and anger follows in its wake. I answer the heroic question ‘Death, where is thy sting? ‘ with ‘ it is here in my heart and mind and memories.’"

- Maya Angelou

"It's so curious; One can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses."

- Colette

"On this bald hill the new year hones its edge. Faceless and pale as china The round sky goes on minding its business. Your absence is inconspicuous; Nobody can tell what I lack."

- Sylvia Plath

"Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell."

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

"Grief sucks."

- Everyone Ever

"Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it."

- William Shakespeare

"I had a lifetime contract, but the administration declared me dead."

- Frank Howard

"I threw a ball into the air. It hit the ground. I knew not where. And that is why I sit and dream On the bench, with the second team!"

- Red Faught

"Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful."

- John C. Maxwell

"Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his own stupidity, or to his lack of discipline, according to the nature of the individual."

- Robert Baden-Powell

"We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret and disappointment."

- Jim Rohn

"Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth."

- Mike Tyson

"Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it—just as we have learned to live with storms."

- Paulo Coelho

"Fatherhood is full of challenges, but eventually they move out."

- Dan Taylor

"Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome."

- Isaac Asimov

"Running a marathon is not a question of whether it will be painful, but when it will be painful. It does help to have a sense of humor, but I’m also respectful of the race."

- Will Ferrell

"It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out; it’s the grain of sand in your shoe."

- Robert W. Service

"These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb."

- Najwa Zebian

"Next person that minimizes my grief is getting a swift kick to the shin."

"If being good were easy, then everyone would be good."

"Grief is like the ocean. It comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim."