Adversity Quote by Kim Brooks

Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of…

— Bertrand Russell

Suffering, I was beginning to think, was essential to a good life, and as inextricable from such a life as bliss. It’s a great…

— Lance Armstrong

But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a…

— Karen Armstrong

“We suffer for the simple reason that suffering is biologically useful. It is nature’s preferred agent for inspiring change.”

— Mark Manson

Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we…

— Spencer W. Kimball

Suffering presents us with a challenge: to find our goals and purpose in our lives that make even the worst situation worth living through.

— Viktor E. Frankl

Is there anything more true than human pain? Is there anything more sincere than the cry for help from those who suffer? Only a…

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

The belief that one's suffering has a greater cosmic purpose, and is thus more exciting and more noble, well, it made a lot of…

— Heidi Julavits

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under…

— Albert Camus

I know there is poor and hideous suffering, and I've seen the hungry and the guns that go to war. I have lived pain,…

— Ann Voskamp

Suffering shapes the life force, sometimes into anger, sometimes into blame and self-pity. Eventually it may show us the wisdom of embracing and loving…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

I believe that this neglected, wounded, inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.

— John Bradshaw