Life Quote by Robin Hobb

“Pretty straightforwardly, the more categories of adversities a child suffers, the dimmer his or her chances of a happy, functional adulthood.45”

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“In retrospect, the saddest moment of one’s life would seem to be that in which one first became aware that sensibility must be protected…

— Frank O'Hara

“I know that my youth will triumph over everything - every disillusionment, every disgust with life. I’ve asked myself many times whether there is…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Tragedy, sadness, loneliness and despair taught me that life is really a beautiful thing; if it wasn't I wouldn't be able to recognize that…

— Greg Evans

“Young people have a marvellous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.”

— Samuel Butler

“Everyone has tragedy in their life at one time or another, it’s how they deal with it that defines them.”

— Andrew Peterson

“Few things in life hurt as much as the awareness that one has betrayed the ideas of one's youth.”

— José Saramago

“there was genuine pity in her face, but also a kind of glee, the sort you see sometimes when teens are interviewed about the…

— Ruth Ware

“If your life is like a tragedy it is because you have been neglecting something — most likely yourself.”

— Bryant McGill

“But mostly, I remembered what I’ve always believed. What my mom taught me. That while some things are just plain awful, most things in…

— Katherine Applegate

“Some people appear to thrive after trauma. Loss emboldens them, they form great ambitions and stride forward as if nothing, now, could hurt them.…

— Catriona Menzies-Pike

“We left behind the other kids; their path-working, drinking, and being grown up- and rejected all that made them grumpy, uncreative and lifeless. We…

— CrimethInc