Adversity Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

The most disastrous times have produced the greatest minds. The purest metal comes of the most ardent furnace; the most brilliant lightning come of…

— François-René de Chateaubriand

The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“All night sheetlightning quaked sourceless to the west beyond the midnight thunderheads, making a bluish day of the distant desert, the mountains on the…

— Cormac McCarthy

“Generally the thunder-storms came in the afternoon, but once I saw one at sunrise, driving down the high mountain valleys toward us. It was…

— Theodore Roosevelt

By early evening all the sky to the north had darkened and the spare terrain they trod had turned a neuter gray as far…

— Cormac McCarthy

I have heard a greater storm in a boiling pot.

— Athenaeus

Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse.

— Matthew Henry

From threatening clouds we get refreshing showers. In dark mines are found bright jewels and so from our worst troubles come our best blessings.

— Anonymous

I don't think that disasters have to be spectacular. They can be a slow corrosion.

— David Frum

“Every storm has a beginning, every storm has a perfect moment of bliss and every storm has a destructive end.”

— Len Webster

Facing the heavenly golden sunshine ... the mild strokes of copper rays ... like the burning ice in the fire of hope ...

— Kevin Knight