Adversity Quotes

"The first reaction to truth is hatred."

- Tertullian

"It is difficult to train for a marathon, but it is even more difficult to not be able to train for a marathon."

- Aaron Douglas Trimble

"Marathoning is like cutting yourself unexpectedly. You dip into the pain so gradually that the damage is done before you are aware of it. Unfortunately, when the awareness comes, it is excruciating."

- John Farrington

"Aiming for the marathon is a task of sorts which can include terrific highs and lows."

- Bill Rodgers

"Nothing hurts more but is so rewarding at the same time."

- Sandy Zanchi

"Am I too sensitive to be in this world? How do you ever explain the feelings of anxiety and paralyzing fear? I can’t answer those questions. It’s just a feeling of ‘Am I crazy? Am I too sensitive to be in this world?’ A feeling that the world is just too complicated for me right now, and I don’t feel like I belong here. But it passes, and fortunately today I feel blessed for all the good things in my life."

- Winona Ryder

"War is where the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other."

- Niko Bellic

"There are no heroes here, only survivors!"

- Mathais (Tomb Raider)

"Someday you're bound to lose everything. Everybody around you will be gone."

- Squall Leonhart (Final Fantasy VIII)

"You’ve met with a terrible fate, haven’t you?"

- The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask

"People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start to feel very empty and worth nothing, you start to become a piece in a board game you never wanted to play."

- Anna Friel

"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."

- Charles Spurgeon

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation."

- Henry David Thoreau

"No one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land."

- Warsan Shire

"Let me tell you this: 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

"Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment."

- Haruki Murakami

"Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other."

- John Steinbeck

"The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely."

- Charlotte Brontë

"God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter - they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship - but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering."

- Sylvia Plath

"All the lonely people, where do they all come from?"

- The Beatles

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

- Sylvia Plath

"Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play."

- Gary Player

"In war, there are no unwounded soldiers."

- Jose Narosky

"The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves."

- Sophocles

"Narcissists withhold affection to punish you. Withhold attention to get revenge. And withhold an emotional empathetic response to make you feel insecure."

- Alice Little

"YOU DIED"

"people don’t care about what you do right or what you do wrong….everyone is so wrapped up in themselves, they will forget about your triumphs and your mistakes way before you do."

"When you say something really unkind, when you do something in retaliation your anger increases. You make the other person suffer, and he will try hard to say or to do something back to get relief from his suffering. That is how conflict escalates."

"The fact is that when you make the other suffer, he will try to find relief by making you suffer more. The result is an escalation of suffering on both sides."

"Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die."

- Unknown