Markus Zusak Quotes

I always marvel at the humans' ability to keep going. They always manage to stagger on even with tears streaming down their faces.

To the stars through thorns.

Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.

In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune

Don't give up. You're going to get kicked in the teeth. A lot. Learn to take a hit, then pick yourself up off the floor. Resilience is the true key to success.

Whatever it takes to break you.

Inside I'm treading waters steady tryna swim ashore.

Nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side.

This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

You're always going to face criticism, you're always going to face challenges, but those things are there to make you stronger and more committed.

Don't lose faith in what you are trying to do, even though you will get pummeled emotionally left and right. There are a lot of "nos" to any "yes." And that's OK.

We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another.

Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity.

Why don't people's hearts tell them to continue to follow their dreams? [...] Because that's what makes a heart suffer most, and hearts don't like to suffer.

What must be done must be done, whatever the price, the cost, the pain. One day we all must walk through fire.

To succeed in life one must have determination and must be prepared to suffer during the process. If one isn't prepared to suffer during adversities, I don't really see how he can be successful.

The scars will take me far, they always do.

Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly.

Life did not present its sunny side to thee.

Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun.

Everybody comes up with this term lucky-"Oh, she's so lucky." Even though I was lucky, I had a lot of struggle before that. I said I was going to give up everything at age 25 and get into event management because nothing was going for me. I used to have a lot of nervous breakdowns.

All crosses are easier to carry when we keep moving.

I think the game is to bear the unbearable with a giggle. With your heart breaking. And then do what you do.