Adversity Quotes

"Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say, 'My tooth is aching' than to say, 'My heart is broken.'"

- C.S. Lewis

"Depression can be usefully seen, from one point of view, as the inability to see or construct a future."

- Rollo May

"Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: It is easier to say ‘My tooth is aching’ than to say ‘My heart is broken.’"

- C. S. Lewis

"When there's no light at the end of the tunnel, it's hard to keep things going."

- Joe Sestak

"I can’t move, can’t get up, My arms are chained, My head’s not straight, I can’t see anyone at the end of the tunnel, I can’t move, can get up, My head’s not straight, My dreams have left, I feel empty and hollow, My arms are chained, The angel of fear is here with me, To give me a message “soon you’ll be free” There’s not light at the end of the tunnel, I feel empty and hollow."

- Quetzal

"Sharp is the arrows of a broken heart."

- Cassandra Clare

"The toughest part of letting go is realizing the other person already did."

- Lalla

"Nothing hurts more than being disappointed by the one person who you thought would never hurt you."

- Gugu Mofokeng

"Falling for you was my mistake."

- The Weeknd

"Does it ever get lonely, thinking you could live without me?"

- Halsey

"It’s unfair that I still care and I wonder where you are tonight. Thinking it could be different. But maybe we missed it."

- Tori Kelly

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

- William Faulkner

"It hurts to let go. Sometimes, it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone, the more it wants to get away."

- Henry Rollins

""If you have ever, sir, been through a breakup of a romantic relationship that involved great love, you will perhaps understand what I experienced. There is in such situations usually a moment of passion during which the unthinkable is said; this is followed by a sense of euphoria at finally being liberated; the world seems fresh as if seen for the first time, then comes the inevitable period of doubt, the desperate and doomed backpedaling of regret; and only later, once emotions have receded, is one able to view with equanimity the journey through which one has passed.""

- Mohsin Hamid

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

- Faraaz Kazi

""Nothing hurts more than being disappointed by the one person who you thought would never hurt you.""

- Gugu Mofokeng

"It’s easy to fall in love, Ben. The hard part comes when you want out."

- Colleen Hoover

"Hardships often prepare people for an extraordinary destiny."

- C.S. Lewis

"Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion."

- Florence Nightingale

"I am dying with the help of too many physicians."

- Alexander the Great

"Motherhood brings as much joy as ever, but it still brings boredom, exhaustion, and sorrow too. Nothing else ever will make you as happy or as sad, as proud or as tired, for nothing is quite as hard as helping a person develop his own individuality especially while you struggle to keep your own."

- Marguerite Kelly

"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: If we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."

- Anne Bradstreet

"It is growing cold. Winter is putting footsteps in the meadow. What whiteness boasts that sun that comes into this wood! One would say milk-colored maidens are dancing on the petals of orchids. How coldly burns our sun! One would say its rays of light are shards of snow; one imagines the sun lives upon a snow-crested peak on this day. One would say she is a woman who wears a gown of winter frost that blinds the eyes. Helplessness has weakened me. Wandering has wearied my legs."

- Roman Payne

"Mental health is not a joke. It is a silent battle that people fight every day."

- Unknown

"The hardest thing I'll ever do is walk away still loving you."

"What do you do when the person who broke your heart is the only one who can fix it?"

"It's so hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember."

""The hardest thing is not talking to someone you used to talk to every day.""

""The toughest part of letting go is realizing the other person already did.""

"When life shows you its time to let someone go, and you refuse to, life will allow the person to hurt you to the point you have no choice but to let go."