“Strange the lengths I’ll go to in order to keep people away from me, considering how lonely I feel most of the time. I guess that’s the strange torment I suffer: dying for company, for someone to talk to, but it’s never the right someone who shows. And an unwelcome presence is far worse than the miserable silence.”
"Maybe prisoners in isolation feel what I feel: they hate their guards, but a beating now and then is at least some human contact."
- Hugh Howey
Adversity
"Just a handful of days like this and Jimmy felt a new Rule of the World: man wasn’t meant to live alone… he spoke with the machines instead. They clacked back at him and hissed deep in their metal throats that man wasn’t supposed to live at all."
- Hugh Howey
Adversity
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity