Quotes About Struggle

have been swept.

I remember I had lunch with John Travolta when he was in the doldrums. I mean, he was, as they say, box office poison. He said to me something so great. He said, "I wasn't that good, and I'm not this bad.

One night you delete all your suicide notes from your computer. If things go bad again, it's not like you can't write a new one.

What doesn't kill you maims you, cripples you, leaves you weak, makes you whiny and full of yourself at the same time. The more pain, the more pompous you get. Whatever doesn't kill you makes you incredibly annoying

It was like trying to break up with the color orange, or Wednesday, or silent e. It was the most passionate and tumultuous relationship I'd ever known.

The reality of boy-girl life gets harsh, but in my fantasy, the music keeps them together.

Renee used to say real life was a bad country song, except bad country songs were believable and real life isn't.

I had never gotten the hang of dating — I was always going to be somebody who either had a girlfriend or didn't.

My ancestors spent centuries in the hills of County Kerry, waist-deep in sheep shit, getting shot at by English soldiers, and my grandparents crossed the ocean in coffin ships to come to America, just so I could get possum rabies?

And being a husband made me helpless, because I had somebody to protect (somebody a little high-strung, who had a tough time emotionally with things like the lights going out indefinitely).

It's the same with people who say, 'Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger.' Even people who say this must realize that the exact opposite is true. What doesn't kill you maims you, cripples you, leaves you weak, makes you whiny and full of yourself at the same time. The more pain, the more pompous you get. Whatever doesn't kill you makes you incredibly annoying.

It's hard to look the people you love in the face when they've seen you fuck up everything you touch. Sometimes, it's easier to rebuild your life if you're with someone who's been as low as you've been.

There are monsters among us. There always have been and there always will be. I've known that ever since I can remember, just like i've always known I was one.

Everyone has something in their life, in their world, that can break them.

You can't choose, who you are. No matter how you struggle, some things will never change. And maybe they schouldn't.

Told me that when you bury emotions like that, you're only pissing them off ... making them stronger, because you're burying them alive. They don't like that, and one day they'll make sure that you don't like it either.

The place was out in Jersey . . . Newark. And while that made living with yourself harder, it did make parking somewhat easier.

Sometimes I feel like I'm sailing on a sunken dream

Oh Lord, make me pure, but not yet.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will";

Sitting Bull on the plains of the Yellowstone and his pursuit of Geronimo

This day I looked forward to as one to help us out, worked every possible

the wagons were turned clear around, and many of the terrified oxen attempted to turn to the hills, with the heavy wagons attached to them. Others turned around so short

fighting for their existence." Deloria also notes that