Adversity Quotes

"Life eventually humbles us all. The longer it takes, the harder the fall."

- Ed Latimore

"Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it."

- Emily Dickinson

"I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature."

- Paulo Coelho

"Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you’d been before the fall."

- Jodi Picoult

"Injuries done to us by others tend to be acute; the self-inflicted ones tend to be chronic."

- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"The saddest thing about love is that not only that it cannot last forever, but that heartbreak is soon forgotten."

- William Faulkner

"Why did I always end up loving the person who hurt me the most? Why was love so cruel?"

- J.C. Reed

"I wish I could be hurt or angry. I would prefer anything other than this complete disappointment."

- Nicole Hartley

"Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever."

- Lord Chesterfield

"A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired, but then time is your misfortune."

- William Faulkner

"Sometimes, being hurt too many times doesn’t make you stronger; it destroys who you were, who you wanted to be, and makes who you are today."

- Rafael Prado

"Sometimes even the smallest of words can be the ones to hurt you,"

- James Hilton ( Cowboy)

"Every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"I have not broken your heart – you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine."

- Emily Brontë

"That’s the funny thing about old hurts―they just wait for new heartache to come along and then show up, just as sharp and horrible as the first day you woke up with the world changed all around you."

- Lilith Saintcrow

"We hurt so much because we have lost a part of ourselves. If we have loved much, we must have given much also, and when everything’s over, we feel as though we have lost everything."

- Jocelyn Soriano

"Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love."

- Clive Barker

"Did I really want to stay on this road longer, knowing it was only going to end in devastation?"

- Becca Fitzpatrick

"Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?"

- Jennifer E. Smith

"I couldn’t stand here, hanging on, when the very thing I held disappeared more with each passing day."

- Becca Fitzpatrick

"It is not the pain. It’s who it came from."

- Drishti Bablani

"Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word."

- George R. R. Martin

"I love you. “Is not enough to make up for the pain that never heals and starts again at the slightest word."

- James Hilton

"Nobody ever wanted to get hurt. But it still happened didn’t it? No matter how careful you were, no matter how smart your puns. It happened all the time."

- Melinda Braun

"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow."

"When love is over, there’s always the pain."

"Where there is love, there is pain."

"He that is strucken blind cannot forget the precious treasure of his eyesight lost."

"He jests at scars that never felt a wound."