Arthur Adamov Quotes

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

No matter what hard thing you may go through or what kind of pain you may go through there is still hope.

I speak to people who have been through so much more.

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

I adore themes of hope and courage and the ways we find meaning through suffering.

If you know that life is basically going to be horrendously difficult, at best, and all but unlivable at worst, or possibly even unlivable, do you go on? And the choice to go on is the only thing that I think can be called hope. Because if hope isn't forced to encounter the worst possibility, then it's a lie.

Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain.

Young people have a right to optimism, and rightly so; human beings have grown and developed and accomplished wonderful feats in the world. But what mires me in pessimism is the fact that so much of life is pain and sorrow and willful ignorance and violence, and pushing back against that tide takes so much effort, so much steady fight. It's tiring.

I think comics are really - superhero comics are at their best and most primal when they're about joy and flying, and about escaping the gravity of the world. But, at the same time, that's not to say all stories should be happy.

I like to think of hope as a fact and something that wins out always. Whether you're hopeful or not, actually, you do get through what you're in the middle of. When you're in it, you don't feel like that's possible. But time and time again, we're proven wrong.

When I think of the happiness that is in store for me, every sorrow, every pain becomes dear to me.

He was never without misery, and never without hope.

Joy came always after pain.

Sometimes out of your biggest misery, comes your greatest gain.

Notwithstanding the sight of all our miseries, which press upon us and take us by the throat, we have an instinct which we cannot repress, and which lifts us up.

Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!.

The sun will shine again. No matter... how painful and hard the rain may beat down on me.

To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

Aand in the end, Having my freedom, boast of nothing else But that I was a journeyman to grief?

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

Endure the present, and watch for better things.

There will be days when you feel defeated, exhausted, and plain old beat-up by life's whiplash. People you love will disappoint you - and you will disappoint them. You'll probably struggle with some kind of mortal appetite. Some days it will feel as though the veil between Heaven and Earth is made of reinforced concrete.