Adversity Quotes

"Bipolar robs you of that which is you. It can take from you the very core of your being and replace it with something that is completely opposite of who and what you truly are. Because my bipolar went untreated for so long, I spent many years looking in the mirror and seeing a person I did not recognize or understand. Not only did bipolar rob me of my sanity, but it robbed me of my ability to see beyond the space it dictated me to look. I no longer could tell reality from fantasy, and I walked in a world no longer my own."

- Alyssa Reyans

"How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes!"

- William Shakespeare

"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."

- William Shakespeare

"Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head."

- William Shakespeare

"Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows."

- William Shakespeare

"My pride fell with my fortunes."

- William Shakespeare

"It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear out, it’s the pebble inside your shoe"

- Muhammad Ali

"Funny we have to be asked “why are you still a nurse? Despite everything?” I don’t think my parents have ever been asked “why are you still engineers? You know, despite it all.”"

- AG_Squared

"This is the state of nursing as a career distilled down into one statement. What other career paths is it fully accepted to ask, "Why do you still do this? Despite everything?""

- ProctologistRN

"My reply? “Great point—I’ve been considering opening a sandwich shop throughout the entirety of the pandemic. Your gentle disdain of my career choice and complete lack of appreciation is the shove I needed to leave the field altogether and go live my dream. P.S. Kindly fuck off asking me to do homework instead of any ACTUAL recognition”."

- Still-Inevitable9368

"He couldn’t believe it was only Wednesday. And it was made worse when he realized it was actually Tuesday."

- TJ Klune

"The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down."

- Robert G. Ingersoll

""Hardships often prepare people for an extraordinary destiny.""

- C.S. Lewis

"Cutting libraries during a recession is like cutting hospitals during a plague."

- Eleanor Crumblehulme

"Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development."

- Alan Bennett

"When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself."

- Isaac Asimov

"Everything negative – pressure, challenges, is all an opportunity for me to rise."

- Kobe Bryant

"Be sad. Be mad. Be frustrated. Scream. Cry. Sulk. When you wake up, you will think it was just a nightmare, only to realize it's all too real. You will be angry and wish for the day back, the game back, THAT play back. But reality gives nothing back, and nor should you."

- Kobe Bryant

""Currently, this seems to be the essential need of the human heart in almost every major crisis: a cup of good, hot coffee.""

- Alexander King

"Mother was comfort. Mother was home. A girl who lost her mother was suddenly a tiny boat on an angry ocean. Some boats eventually floated ashore. And some boats, like me, seemed to float farther and farther from land."

- Ruta Sepetys

"For those who deeply want children and are denied them, those missing babies hover like silent ephemeral shadows over their lives. Who can describe the feel of a tiny hand that is never held?"

- Laura Bush

"Soul been broke in half, I got too many scars Put my trust in 'em and they broke my heart Death's gotta be easy 'cause life is hard."

"Waking up on Monday is brutal…but not as brutal as waking up on Tuesday. Still, I hope things are looking up for you!"

"If Tuesday morning had a face, I’d tell it to take a nap."

"Morning! Nothing ruins your Friday like realizing it’s only Tuesday."

"I’d say ‘Happy Tuesday,’ but we both know that’d be a lie."

"If you path is difficult, it is because your purpose is bigger than you thought."

- Anonymous

"Coffee: because adulting is hard."

"I don’t have a problem with caffeine. I have a problem without it!"

"Worrying means you suffer twice."