Adversity Quotes

"There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats."

- Albert Schweitzer

"Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life."

- George Bernard Shaw

"When once asked if he ever stopped drinking, Humphrey Bogart replied, "Yeah, it was the worst afternoon of my whole life"."

- Humphrey Bogart

"First you take a drink. Then the drink takes a drink. Then the drink takes you."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"A woman drove me to drink and I never even had the courtesy to thank her."

- W. C. Fields

"War itself is the enemy of the human race."

- Howard Zinn

"There is but one evil, war. All the other proclaimed evils such as hate, greed, discrimination, and jealousy are only sub-categories of it."

- José Barreiro

"War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man."

- Alfred Adler

"War is an act of violence pushed to its utmost limits."

- Carl von Clausewitz

"Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society."

- Frederick Moore Vinson

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished. There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind."

- U Thant

"One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one."

- Agatha Christie

"When you go to war, both sides lose totally."

- Yoko Ono

"War stirs in mens hearts the mud of their worst instincts. It puts a premium on violence, nourishes hatred, and gives free rein to cupidity. It crushes the weak, exalts the unworthy, and bolsters tyranny. Time and time again it has destroyed all ordered living, devastated hope, and put the prophets to death."

- Charles DeGaulle

"War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who remains."

- R.F. Kuang

""The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.""

- George Washington

"We all live such distant and anonymous lives; disguised, we suffer the fate of strangers. To some, however, this distance between another being and ourselves is never revealed; to others it is revealed only every now and then, through horror or pain, lit by a limitless lightning flash; for yet others it is the one painful constant in their daily lives."

- Fernando Pessoa

"Lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely / A story with a middle only."

- Paul Durcan

"There is no lonelier place than being with someone who has stopped loving you."

- Paulo Coelho

"I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody."

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

"I only drink a little, but when I do I turn into another person and that person drinks a lot."

"I would rather be struggling in my sobriety than successful in my alcoholism."

"1 is too many and 100 is not enough"

"Drinking again means drinking alone again."

"There is no problem so bad that drinking can't make it worse."

"War does not determine who is right  only who is left."

"Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of."

"As the weekend unfolds, may this Saturday be a day of adventure and discovery in your life’s journey."

"Sometimes I feel like I’m alone in a world full of people."