Quotes About Struggles

Pero hay un consuelo, se ahorrará un montón de problemas y sufrimientos si muere joven.

And every faggot couple I know is deep into friendship and deep into fucking with everyone else but each other and any minute any bump appears in their commitment to infinitesimally obstruct their view, out they zip like petulant kids to suck someone else's lollipop instead of trying to work things out, instead of trying not to hide, and…unh…why do faggots have to fuck so fucking much?!

People don't break up because someone's family is a little . . . messy. If that were the case, no one would ever get married.

Growing up is never idyllic, is it? Or it'd be called something else.

Growing up is never idyllic, is it? Or it'd be called something else - Jacob

All in all, when I look at my dating life from the bigger perspective, it pretty much sucks. If it were a bar graph, and each guy were a different colored bar, and the side of the graph measured things like stupidity, lack of consideration, and overpowering lust, the colored bars of all the guys I've dated would crash through the top of the graph and rocket skyward like a testosterone-fueled rainbow.

Peaks and valleys. That's what life comes down to, in the end. Fucking geography.

Ninth grade is a minor inconvenience to him. A zit-cream commercial before the Feature Film of Life.

HOW CHEQUERED IS HUMAN LIFE! HOW PRECARIOUS IS HAPPINESS! HOW EASILY DO WE OFTEN PART WITH IT FOR A SHADOW! THESE ARE THE REFLECTIONS THAT FREQUENTLY INTRUDE THEMSELVES UPON ME, WITH A PAINFUL APPLICATION. I AM GOING TO DO MY DUTY. –LETTER FROM COLONEL ALEXANDER HAMILTON TO HIS WIFE, ELIZABETH

Your unconscious mind takes the things you can't handle and plays with them while you sleep until some of the sharp corners are worn off.

I don't tend to think of the characters i play as losers. I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way.

Mas o que aprendemos antes de mais nada da companhia de outros é que o único auxílio que ela pode prestar é como sobreviver em nossa solidao irremível, e que a vida de todo mundo é cheia de riscos que devem ser enfrentados solitariamente.

las ciudades se han convertido en el basurero de los problemas engendrados globalmente.

Too big to cry too young to laugh...

If only men came made to order. It's so hard to find a decent fellow.

No mortal can complete his life unharmed and unpunished throughout--ah ah! Some troubles are here now, some will come later. Chorus, Aeschylus' Eumenides from the Oresteia

It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.

We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness...

We appreciate beauty more when we are aware of life's troubles. — 8. Henri Fantin-Latour, Chrysanthemums, 1871

Romantic idea of love: he has found the right person; he has opened his heart to her; and he has been accepted. But he is, of course, nowhere yet. He and Kirsten will marry, they will suffer, they will frequently worry about money, they will have a girl first, then a boy, one of them will have an affair, there will be passages of boredom, they'll sometimes want to murder one another and on a few occasions to kill themselves. This will be the real love story.

We end up believing that our struggles are indications of having made some unusual and fundamental error, rather than evidence that our marriages are essentially going entirely according to plan.

In other words, art is a realm entirely separated from the interests of real life-a refuge for detached and gifted souls from sordid political and economic struggles.

Most people don't understand performers are really sheltered and protected so much sometimes that they don't get a chance to live their lives.

Well, a marriage can look healthy on the outside and be loaded with problems inside.