Adversity Quotes

"Do not rely on February . . . The sun in this month begets a headache like an angel slapping you in the face."

- Anne Sexton

"February is a suitable month for dying. Everything around is dead, the trees black and frozen so that the appearance of green shoots two months hence seems preposterous, the ground hard and cold, the snow dirty, the winter hateful, hanging on too long."

- Anna Quindlen

"Social anxiety results from being around people who are resolutely opposed to who you are."

- Stefan Molyneux

"I have social anxiety. It's easier up on stage because there's security in being there. When I'm off stage I'm trying not to be a manic freak. I'm quite shy."

- Sia Furler

"Too often, the only escape is sleep."

- Charles Bukowski

"Nothing about depression and anxiety is easy."

- Keisha Defliger

"They told me all of my cages were mental, so I got wasted like all my potential"

- Taylor Swift

"Sometimes, all you can do is lie in bed, and hope to fall asleep before you fall apart."

- William C. Hannan

"It might not be distance or time that takes you away from people. Maybe you decide when you let them go. But I can't let go yet."

- Cecilia Vinesse

"Long handwritten note deep in our pockets Words, how little they mean when we're a little too late I stood right by the tracks, your face in my head Good girls, hopeful they'll be and long they will wait In dreams I meet you in warm conversation We both wake in lonely beds, different cities And time is taking its sweet time erasing you And you've got your demons, and, darling, they all look like me Distance, timing, breakdown, fighting Silence, the train runs off its tracks Kiss me, try to fix it, could you just try to listen? Hang up, give up and for the life of us we can't get back A beautiful magic love there What a sad beautiful tragic, beautiful tragic, beautiful love affair"

- EJR

"Living in a state of constant wistful despair, perhaps, will be my destiny, said the traveller. Longing to be touched by you, will perhaps, be mine, whispered back the horizon."

- Preeti Bhonsle

"Now distance is my fate that will never grow into destiny."

- Qamar Rafiq

"Every eye has an ocean to drown in it."

- Qamar Rafiq

"You’re crying because you think I’m going to a better place I’m crying because I think I’m leaving to a place Better than the one I am going to… Oh, the game of places… Oh, the winds of misfortune…"

- Louis Yako

"It’s painful, loving someone from afar. Watching them – from the outside. The once familiar elements of their life reduced to nothing more than occasional mentions in conversations and faces changing in photographs….. They exist to you now as nothing more than living proof that something can still hurt you … with no contact at all."

- Ranata Suzuki

"They say “Follow your heart”…. …. But I can’t follow you where you’re going…"

- Ranata Suzuki

"But some relationships aren't meant to last. They are worthy only till the time the two persons involved have time for each other. They do not know eternity. They live for the present, the "now". And when distance plays it part, or life turns out to be busy, they fall apart. And may be that's why they're never termed "LOVE". They simply remain what they were - mere RELATIONSHIPS."

- Sanhita Baruah

"I had the misfortune of getting what skateboarders call hippers. It's when you fall on your hip again and again and again, just the same spot. It turns into like a blue purple bruise and it's just torture because I had to keep on doing the same move, going around in the pool again."

- Emile Hirsch

"The POW camps of North Vietnam were packed with Air Force and Naval Academy graduates. The six midshipmen in my Naval Academy class of 1968 who served as liaisons between the Marine Corps and the Brigade of Midshipmen later suffered nine Purple Hearts in Vietnam, and one man killed in action."

- Jim Webb

"Too numb to feel anything."

"Just because I carry it well doesn’t mean it’s not heavy."

"I have two moods: constant panic and worry about every little detail and YOLO"

"Me: What could possibly go wrong? Anxiety: I’m glad you asked."

"If anxiety burned calories, I’d be a supermodel."

"I stress about stress before there’s even stress to stress about. Then I stress about stressing over stress that doesn’t need to be stressed about. It’s stressful."

"The chill pill I took this morning seems to be a placebo."

"Everyone thinks I’m overdramatic when I’m stressed. When an octopus is stressed, it eats itself. Now that’s overdramatic."

"Let’s just say my anxieties, have anxieties."

"I came. I saw. I had anxiety… so I left."

"I’m somewhere between giving up and seeing how much more I can take."