Adversity Quote by Steven Erikson

“We must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing its own identity,…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Conflict is a natural part of existence. Life is a struggle for survival for every organism at every level.”

— Bryant McGill

“The immappable world of our journey. A pass in the mountains. A bloodstained stone. The marks of steel upon it. Names carved in the…

— Cormac McCarthy

“All force strives forward to work far and wide To live and grow and ever to expand; Yet we are checked and thwarted on…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“There’s a destructive urge in people, the urge to rage, murder and kill. And until all of humanity, without exception, undergoes a metamorphosis, wars…

— Anne Frank

“It is extraordinary that nobody nowadays under the stress of great troubles is turned into stone or a bird or a tree or some…

— Anna Comnena

“All existence is in conflict. We fight the elements, we fight our consciences, we fight the limitations and eventual mortality of our bodies. All…

— Joel Shepherd

“Stone is a primal matter, inhuman in its duration. Yet despite its incalculable temporality, the lithic is not some vast and alien outside. A…

— Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

“If a defining characteristic of the modern world is disorder, then the most fundamental act of resistance is to establish order.”

— Rod Dreher

“I can think of no people more fragmented... Craftsmen you see, but no humans, thinkers, but no humans, priests, but no humans, lords and…

— Friedrich Holderlin

“Sediments of stones scatter as the ego hath crushed, weather of life changes every form , be it rock or a human!”

— Soumya V

“We are disconnected from nature, we are wounded from the Spirit outward, and that has caused the largest majority of the problems that plague…

— Dianne Sylvan