Quotes About Struggle

fear is an emotion we find hard to resist or control

There are occasions when losing is a victory, so long as there is a fight.

You were too young to fight in the last war, and I was too old. In some ways that made it worse.

What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them!

Con quale velocità, pensò l'ingegnere, la natura si riprende ciò che ha dovuto cedere: pioggia e gelo sbriciolano la muratura, le strade sono sepolte da strati verdi di erbaccia, gli acquedotti sono ostruiti dalla stessa acqua per portare la quale sono stati costruiti. Quella della civiltà è un'incessante guerra che l'uomo è destinato a perdere.

The foundations of Empire are often occasions of woe; their dismemberment, always.

There are no lasting victories in politics, there is only the remorseless grinding forward of events.

In the concealed darkness of the bag her fingers began to work her rosary, clumsily at first but with increasing dexterity - Push. Click. Slide. Press -

We are born in a clear field and die in a dark forest.

It had been a futile gesture, of course, but then they were trapped in an era when futile gestures were all that were available.

La ley es tan cara! -comentó Clodio con una sonrisa-. El pobre Catilina ha tenido que vender las reliquias de la familia para poder estar seguro de la justicia. Realmente, es un escándalo. No sé cómo se las arregla la gente.

What a day in prospect: the sort of day one waded through with no aim higher than to reach the other end intact.

Man was born in sin. He struggled. He erred. He fell.

It is in the nature of things that not all politicians can achieve greatness.

Violence is Inevitable.

the struggle [for existence] almost invariably will be most severe between the individuals of the same species, for they frequent the same districts, require the same food, and are exposed to the same dangers. CHARLES DARWIN, On the Origin of Species (1859)

Against the alchemy of two naked bodies in a bed in the darkness, and against all the complex longings and attachments and commitments such intimacy might arouse, he had nothing with which to fight.

But if you seek power," he said, almost to himself, "and if you are a new man, this is what you have to do. Nobody is ever going to simply hand it to you.

The fortunes of war, gentlemen," he said, "can be cruel and capricious. But that is not the same as treason.

We are an ark.......surrounded by a rising flood of discord

We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstraction police and threaten us. Reclaim now, now renew the vision of a human world where godliness is possible and man is neither gook nigger honkey wop nor kike but man permitted to be man.

Unable to sleep, or pray, I stand by the window looking out at moonstruck trees a December storm has bowed with ice. Maple and mountain ash bend under its glassy weight, their cracked branches falling upon the frozen snow. The trees themselves, as in winters past, will survive their burdening, broken thrive. And am I less to You, my God, than they?

Oh, what a world we make, oppressor and oppressed. Our world-- this violent ghetto, slum of the spirit raging against itself. We hate kill destroy in the name of human good our killing and our hate destroy.

all art is pain suffered and outlived