Adversity Quotes

"Negativity is like being stung constantly by a thousand bees. At first it’s really annoying, but after a few more stings it becomes toxic."

- James Jean-Pierre

"A tongue stings stronger than a bee."

- Tamerlan Kuzgov

"“These are the times that try men’s souls.”"

- Thomas Paine

"The issue of a cause rarely depends upon a speech and is but seldom even affected by it. But there is never a cause contested, the result of which is not mainly dependent upon the skill with which the advocate conducts his cross-examination."

- Francis Wellman

"All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed anyone, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction."

- Clarence Darrow

"Save your skin from the corrosive acids from the mouths of toxic people. Someone who just helped you to speak evil about another person can later help another person to speak evil about you."

- Israelmore Ayivor

"I've had it with being nice, understanding, fair and hopeful. I feel like being negative all day. The chip on my shoulder could sink the QE2. I've got an attitude problem and nobody better get in my way...I'm in a bad mood and the whole stupid little world is gonna pay!"

- John Waters

"Protect your good image from the eyes of negative viewers, who may look at your good appearance with an ugly fiendish eye, and ruin your positive qualities with their chemical infested tongues."

- Michael Bassey Johnson

"On the plus side, there were no rioters in sight but on the minus side this was probably because everywhere I looked was on fire."

- Ben Aaronovitch

"Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called everybody, and they meet at the bar."

- Drew Carey

"There is no easy way to bathe a hummingbird."

- Kehlog Albran

"He labors in a state of almost unremitting pain. He lives in a room just about big enough to hold his carcass, a rented coffin you might call it, and a most insecure one at that. Would he not be better off dead? What is there for him to look forward to—"

- Henry Miller

"To experience the good you have to have seen the bad; plus it makes you appreciate blessings more. Tough times taught me to be a fighter."

- Pink

"I fell off my pink cloud with a thud."

- Elizabeth Taylor

"It is a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt over so small a thing … such a little thing."

- Boromir

"God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world."

- C.S. Lewis

"Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something."

- William Goldman

"Cleaning up with children around is like shoveling during a blizzard."

- Margaret Culkin Banning

"Housework is like cleaning fish. No matter how often you do it, it still stinks."

- Thelma Harper

"The world is a cruel place. It doesn’t give people like us a fair chance."

- Catwoman

"Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really."

- Agnes Sligh Turnbull

"Look at me! There's nothing in my heart. I don't feel pain any longer! There's no need to feel guilty, Kakashi."

- Obito Uchiha

"People cannot win against their loneliness because loneliness is this world’s worst kind of pain."

- Gaara

"Darkness... When everything that you know and love... is taken from you so harshly... all you can think about is anger, hatred, and even revenge... and no one can save you."

- Orochimaru

"This is the worst day of my life. The worst day of your life SO FAR."

"Obstacles are opportunities in disguise. Embrace the challenge."

"I hate when I lose things at work, like pens, papers, sanity and dreams."

- Anonymous

"The hardest thing about riding…is the ground!"

- Unknown

"Having a dog will bless you with many of the happiest days of your life, and one of the worst."

"What’s the matter? I have to be a witch, I have to be a mortal, I have to be a teenager, and I have to be a girl all at the same time. That’s what’s the matter."