Jeffrey Archer Quotes

Because life is not fair, Albert. And the world is conspiring against you.

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune

When I am battered and oppressed by the world that humanity has made - which is difference from the world that is was given - my primary defense, my consolation, is the absurdity of that world

When fate is got it in for you, there is no limit to what you may have to put up with.

I've seen the hell these people go through.

As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

No one has ever suffered from his people as I have.

When you have a situation that's destructive, when there's tremendous inhumanity everywhere, you see how humanity survives in all of its different permutations.

To the stars through thorns.

The vilest deeds like poison weeds, Bloom well in prison-air; It is only what is good in Man That wastes and withers there:

People who are underprivileged have more to grieve and have more to overcome.

I value what I learned from being cast in the margins and what that felt like.

There's never any ebb in human misery.

That's what 'Hell On Earth' was about: we felt that we were living in hell.

I had a very hard life in Kazakhstan.

I have lived through very difficult times.

Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.

The hope of all who suffer, The dread of all who wrong.

All life is a struggle in the dark.

Life deals from the bottom, sometimes, doesn't it?

We all have to go through hard times. Tragedies. Those are given to us to see what we're going to do with them.

You see misery, you see misfortune, you see pain, you see suffering. It's all part of the fatalistic way of looking at life.

Life is full of hardships, pimp slaps, and sorrow.

I've had, what, two years? Probably five good years. Before that I had twenty years of uncertainty and suffering and ego destruction and poverty. All those things. That'll always outweigh the good times.