Robert Fulghum Quotes

Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.

Single misfortunes never come alone, and the greatest of all national calamities is generally followed by one greater.

My life was pretty rough.

Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

The cries of the sufferers on the remaining part of the wreck were heard during the night.

Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life.

I went through a lot of hard times. I went through a lot of struggle. A few times, I was in tears. It brought me to my knees just about.

There was a time when I had nothing. I lost everything.

We are living even now among punishments and ruins.

Death and worse happened on the plains.

Life is full of hardships, pimp slaps, and sorrow.

Evil comes not amiss if it comes alone.

A man I am cross'd with adversity.

Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.

Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

Tragedies come in the hungry hours.

Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.

My life is a struggle.

I've seen the hell these people go through.

People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.

It's true that I suffered a lot, especially when I was younger.

I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.

The nature of the game is pain.

These times are so hard, and they're getting even harder.

Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.