Ordeals Quotes

“Through all this ordeal his root horror had been isolation, and there are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematicians that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one. That is why, in spite of a hundred disadvantages, the world will always return to monogamy.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

“I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out without it, Titian and others, but mostly you need ordeal. My idea is this: the artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business: Beethoven's deafness, Goya's deafness, Milton's blindness, that kind of thing.”
― John Berryman

“... there is life after you survive.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks

“... the feeling that you’re not so much living your life as just trying to push through it won’t last forever. Someday you’ll be able to breathe.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks

“Let your strength from the past
provide proof of your abilities to . . .
conquer the difficulties of the present.”
― John-Talmage Mathis, For the (soon) unemployed: You Against Them

“Be grateful for all ordeals, they are the shortest way to the Divine.”
― The Mother, Words of the Mother - II

“...there is life after you survive.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks

“The ordeals of others . . .
prepare us, and
later become the compass . . .
in our time of ordeal.”
― John-Talmage Mathis, For the (soon) unemployed: You Against Them

“Since we remember clearly only our ordeals, it is ultimately the sick, the persecuted, the victims in every realm who will have lived to the best advantage. The others - the lucky ones - have a life, of course, but not the memory of life.”
― Emil M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“Ordeals give you opportunities to look more deeply into your real world.”
― Salam Al Shereida

“I Don’t MAKE TWO ORDERS For ONE ORDEAL UNLIKE LAW”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Life is a river of ordeals that makes men swim upstream so that they may chase after their dreams, and whoever refuses to swim gets washed away downstream and be dragooned to drown to its defeatist depths.”
― Picazo Basha, Shambala Sect