Adversity Quotes

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

- Robin Williams

"A person begging for their humanity to be acknowledged can sound an awful lot like rage."

- Kalen Dion

"That feeling when you give it all you have, and life still kicks your ass."

- Shane Parrish

"I hurt myself today to see if I still feel. I focus on the pain, the only thing that’s real."

- Johnny Cash

"Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering."

- Paulo Coelho

"Yes, I understand why things had to happen this way. I understand his reason for causing me pain. But mere understanding does not chase away the hurt. It does not call upon the sun when dark clouds have loomed over me. Let the rain come then if it must come! And let it wash away the dust that hurt my eyes!"

- Jocelyn Soriano

"Still, being able to feel pain was good, he thought. It’s when you can’t even feel pain anymore that you’re in real trouble."

- Haruki Murakami

"When I’m in a phase of real turmoil or the anxiety is very strong, it feels like the anxiety is never going to end, and it does."

- Emma Stone

"Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment, and things left unsaid."

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

"I always hated when my scars started to fade because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting."

- Jodi Picoult

"The stupid might have wanted to help you but ended up hurting you."

- Arabic Proverb

"Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting."

- Siri Hustvedt

"I’m not upset that you lied to me; I’m upset that from now on, I can’t believe you."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Welcome to the world. You will hurt the people you love the most. You will say stupid things and embarrass yourself repeatedly. You will crash your car and lose your wallet before the bill comes. You will get sick, sad, and lonely."

- Markus Almond

"No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief."

- Faraaz Kazi

"Things that break— be they bones, hearts, or promises— can be put back together but will never really be whole."

- Jodi Picoult

"Don’t hurt my feelings anymore. I left you my roses, and you gave me your thorns."

- Godwin Delali Adadzie

"There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them and let them hurt me."

- Jonathan Safran Foer

"I still own my heart, which I know because it hurts so much."

- Emilie Autumn

"I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there. I call out, but no one answers."

- Haruki Murakami

"You say I’m afraid of being alone, and it’s true. I am. And I’m not proud of it."

- Stephanie Perkins

"The ax never remembers. The tree never forgets."

- Paulo Coelho

"Have you ever been hurt, and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again?"

- Rosa Parks

"Failure hurts but passes quickly. Regret hurts forever."

- Shane Parrish

"Because, of course, your way is always the best way."

"Congratulations, you've officially earned your badge of mediocrity."

"Tell me why you're so salty, peanut."

"Someone said, “anger is sadness that has had nowhere to go for a very long time,” and I’ll never forget that."

- Unknown

"My feelings? Oh, don’t worry about those; no one else does."

- Unknown

"Disappointment hurts more than pain."

- Unknown