personal adversity Quotes

Obviously, resilience matters. I was no stranger to adversity, but it's different when it's personal. Not something I would recommend.

A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.

Of all the writers I have read, Vladimir Nabokov has made the biggest impression on me because he, despite living through the 1917 February Revolution, forced exile amidst the anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany, the two World Wars and quite a lot of controversy, was an author who never gave up.

I honestly think part of the appeal of 'Rumours' was that it was sort of heroic. We managed to push through in the face of so much personal adversity.

Pittacus said, "Every one of you hath his particular plague, and my wife is mine; and he is very happy who hath this only".

All loss, all pain, is particular; the universe remains to the heart unhurt.

And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.

I wonder how many years Suga has been carrying his curse around with him. I forget that other people in the world have broken parts too.

The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.

When I was forty, I was getting divorced, living in a low-class, dirty hotel in New York. My mother was dying of cancer. I owed $20,000. That was about the lowest. I came back to show business, and I couldn't get a job. I was turned down by every small-time agent in New York.

Every person faces their own unique challenges and you may not always know what others around you are going through.

I think we all get our own bag of hammers. We all get our own Parkinson's. We all have our own thing. I think that we'll look at it through the filter of that experience, and we'll say, "Yeah, I need to laugh at my stuff, too."