Quotes About Struggle

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It's their way of falling.

On holidays, I cave in to the memory of love, and associate desserts and eating with the love I experienced at my grandmother's table. She was a great cook, and sweets crowded the side console cabinet during Thanksgiving and Christmas. I have no answer as to how to overcome this. I will try until I die, every day. Just keep trying to be well. Enough said.

On ne peut pas faire un art qui parle aux masses quand on n'a rien à leur dire, mais nous luttons ensemble, nous voulons faire une autre vie ensemble, et nous avons tout à nous dire.

Les blessures du plus profond amour suffisent à faire une assez belle haine - La Condition Humaine

Tragedy, in our times, is politics.

Guitarists spend half their time tuning and the other half playing out of tune.

Subjectivity and objectivity commit a series of assaults on each other during a human life out of which the first one suffers the worse beating.

From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passions, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

The abominable effort to take one's sins with one to paradise.

Herkeste geçici gerilemeler olur, hiç kimse geçmi?in, bilinçd???n?n ve çat??malar?n nihai bir biçimde birer aksesuar olarak bir kenara b?rak?ld??? bir ilerleme çizgisi izlemez. Hay?r, böyle bir ?ey yoktur, onlarla birlikte ya?ar?z ama ba?ka türlü ya?ar?z.

The world system wide reality is the competitive dog-eat-dog war of all against all (à la Hobbes), in which only the few can win and the many must lose. And so it has been for millennia, thanks to the world system's unequal structure and uneven process, which Wallerstein helps us identify.

The extermination camps, in endeavoring to turn man into a beast, intimated that it is not life alone which makes him man.

All art is a revolt against man's fate.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Onun önünde öylesine kar???k duygular duyuyordum ki, kendim bile güç anl?yordum. Hem ondan nefret ediyor, hem de ona tap?yordum. Hem suçsuz, hem de suçlu buluyordum onu. Haz?rlad???m ?iddetli kavga, dostça ve içten bir konu?maya dönü?üyordu.

Elle ne comprenait pas qu'une partie de ce peuple en haillons n'eût rien à faire en ce lieu. Comment Dieu pouvait-il choisir ceux-ci plutôt que ceux-là ? Ce Dieu des uns et pas des autres, comment l'admettre, comment le vivre ?

Sí, odio todo esto, todo eso, todo. Y lo odio porque lucho por conseguirlo, unas veces puedo vencer, otras no. Por eso lo odio, porque lucho por su compañía. Lo odio porque odiar es querer y aprender a amar. ¿Me entienden? Lo odio, porque no he aprendido a amar, y necesito de eso. Por eso, odio a todo el mundo, no dejo de odiar a nadie, a nada... a nada, a nadie, ¡sin excepción!.

Odiar es querer sin amar. Querer es luchar por aquello que se desea y odiar es no poder alcanzar por lo que se lucha. Amar es desear todo, luchar por todo, y aún así, seguir con el heroísmo de continuar amando.

Odio todo lo que tengo de cielo para mirar, sí, todo lo que alcanzo, porque nunca he podido encontrar en él la parte exacta donde habita Dios.

El sexo es el acto de las tinieblas y el enamoramiento la reunión de los tormentos

I question myself every day. That's what I still find motivating about this. I don't have the answers, I don't pretend that I do just because I won the match. Just keep fighting and maybe something good happens.

Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself. And the things that I sort of discovered at times I not only didn't want to see it for myself but I certainly didn't want millions of people to see it.