Adversity Quotes

"The full impact of our brother's or sister's death begins to seep into our consciousness at precisely the same time when others might expect us to be feeling better."

- T.J. Wray

"If you loved your sibling, you will grieve. Even if you had a difficult or ambivalent relationship with your sibling, you will grieve."

- Alan D. Wolfelt

"But how can I learn to live in a world that doesn’t include my brother? All my life, I’ve always been my brother’s sister; it’s part of my identity, part of who I am. My brother is part of my past; we share a common history. And we had plans for the future."

- T.J. Wray

"When a sibling dies, it is like a deep hole implodes inside of you. It's as if the hole penetrates you and leaves you gasping for air."

- Alan D. Wolfelt

"Confusion in battle is what pain is in childbirth—the natural order of things."

- General Maurice Tugwell

"There is no beating these troops in spite of their generals. I always thought them bad soldiers, now I am sure of it. I turned their right, pierced their center, broke them everywhere; the day was mine, and yet they did not know it and would not run."

- Marshal Soult

"The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war."

- George W. Bush

"Life does not accommodate you; it shatters you. Every seed destroys its container, or else there would be no fruition."

- Florida Scott-Maxwell

"Haters will broadcast your failures, but whisper your success."

- Drake

"People will wish you all the success in the world and then hate you when you get it."

- Drake

"When you get hurt by the one you living for, pain can make you wanna love no more."

- Drake

"Nobody understood what it was like to be black and Jewish… being different from everyone else just made me a lot stronger."

- Drake

"The game ain't always fair, and that's the thing, though. You can play your heart out; everybody doesn't get a ring, though."

- Drake

"But the last thing I grew up as was rich."

- Drake

"While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself."

- Douglas Horton

"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."

- William Congreve

"A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever."

- Jessamyn West

"Every time you get angry, you poison your own system."

- Alfred A. Montapert

"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it."

- Oscar Wilde

""Hell exists. It is here, 3 a.m., awake and without you.""

- Beau Taplin

"People say sticks and stones may break your bones, but names can never hurt you, but that's not true. Words can hurt. They hurt me. Things were said to me that I still haven't forgotten."

- Demi Lovato

"No, you don't know what it's like When nothing feels all right You don't know what it's like To be like me To be hurt To feel lost To be left out in the dark To be kicked when you're down To feel like you've been pushed around To be on the edge of breaking down And no one's there to save you No, you don't know what it's like Welcome to my life"

- Simple Plan

"Women endure entire lifetimes of these indignities—in the form of catcalls, groping, assault, oppression. These things injure us. They sap our strength. Some of the cuts are so small they’re barely visible. Others are huge and gaping, leaving scars that never heal. Either way, they accumulate. We carry them everywhere, to and from school and work, at home while raising our children, at our places of worship, anytime we try to advance."

- Michelle Obama

"People try to say suicide is the most cowardly act a man could ever commit. I don't think that's true at all. What's cowardly is treating a man so badly that he wants to commit suicide."

- Tommy Tran

"When shriek’d the bleak November winds and smote the woods, and the brownfields were herbless, and the shades. That met above the merry rivulet, were spoil’d, I sought, I loved them still, they seem’d like old companions in adversity."

- William Cullen Bryant

"The wild November comes at last beneath a veil of rain. The night wind blows its folds aside, her face is full of pain. The latest of her race, she takes the Autumn’s vacant throne. She has but one short moon to live and she must live alone."

- R.H. Stoddard

"Gray November, I've been down since July."

- Taylor Swift

"Losing a sibling means you have to grieve the loss of a close relative and a best friend at the same time."

"Pressure is what turns coal into diamonds"

"When you are angry, you’re carrying the burden while the other person is out dancing."