Adversity Quote by Franz Kafka

There has always been, for me, this other world, this second world to fall back on--a more reliable world in so far as it…

— Graham Swift

Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has…

— Paul Ricoeur

In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.

— Franz Kafka

“In the struggle between yourself and the world, side with the world”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

If there were no contradictions and no struggle, there would be no world, no process, no life, and there would be nothing at all.

— Mao Zedong

“Leave me alone; I can’t struggle when I have the whole world on my side.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Lobbying is the world's second - oldest profession.

— Bill Press

I come from the so-called Third World (what is the Second)?

— Isabel Allende

“It's a dog eat dog world. But only if the second dog is more stupid than the first.”

— Washington Irving

No artist will tolerate the world for one second as it is.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Great men die twice, once when they leave this world and a second time when their life work disappears.”

— Ivo Andrić