Quotes About Struggle

It was as though you struggled against fierce current jagged with debris to save me then. I am desperate still.

confess i am curiously drawn unmentionable to the americans doubt i could exist among them for long however psychic demands far too severe much violence much that repels i am attracted none the less their variousness their ingenuity their elan vital and that some thing essence quiddity i cannot penetrate or name

We fight our wish to die.

Fed the fires that consume us now, the fire that will save.

World I have loved and loving hated, is it your sickness luxuriating in my body's world?

something they call the american dream sure we still believe in it i guess an earth man in the tavern said irregardless of the some times night mare facts we always try to double talk our way around and its okay the dreams okay and means whats good could be a damn sight better means every body in the good old u s a should have the chance to get ahead or at least should have three squares a day as for myself i do okay

Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.

always remember that when things look darkest, they usually get considerably worse

Las mejores cosas de la vida están por encima del dinero; su precio es la angustia, el sudor y la dedicación, y el precio que exige la más preciosa de de todas las cosas es la vida misma, el costo definitivo para el valor perfecto

Pain and sickness and hunger and fighting—there's no need for any of it. It's as foolish as those little monkeys.

We all have our battle scars, Kentucky. The ones who wear them on the outside are just a little more honest about it, that's all.

The achiever is usually in an internal struggle. He struggles against what he believes and what he thinks he must do to make himself feel good. The trick in our lives is to get the two together. An internal sense of worth is just as important to the healthy man as an external sense of worth. However, it takes a healthy man to realize this.

Heartaches, disillusionments, disappointments, and hurts from people you least expect will either cause a soul to become bitter, hostile, angry, and disillusioned in life or drive the soul to search above and beyond just the physical and material things of life into a quest for spiritual things and into the arms of God.

They may come to feel that only the world's death can enable them to overcome their own inner deadness.

Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he's nothing to lose.

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.

Read and find out.

Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.

Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.

Demandred blocked Lan's attack but he breathed hoarsely. Who are you? Demandred whispered again. No one of this Age has such skill. Asmodean? No, no. He couldn't have fought me like this. Lews Therin? It is you behind that face, isn't it? I am just a man, Lan whispered. That is all I have ever been.

the wolf may fight the bear but the rabbit always looses

You'll use it, boy, and as long as you hate using it, you will use it more wisely than most men would. Wait. If ever you don't hate it any longer, then will be the time to throw it as far as you can and run the other way.

On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers.

hope is like a piece of string when you're drowning; it just isn't enough to get you out by itself.