Quotes About Struggle

In war, as in farming, you sometimes had to step in and get knee-deep in the muck.

The Seanchan fight the Shadow. -message from Dragon Reborn to Egwene

And at the end of every life, as he lay dying, as he drew his final breath, a voice whispered in his ear. I have won again, Lews Therin. Flicker

It was about a hero who insisted with every breath that he was anything but a hero.

As many roads down as up, and the roads down as slippery as the others.

Heroes in the stories never had to sleep in haystacks, or under hedges. But it was not easy to pretend, anymore, that he was a hero in a story.

He has forgotten how to laugh except in bitterness; there are no tears left in him. Unless he finds laughter and tears again, the world faces disaster. He

It was a simple truth; the Creator made women so men would not find life too easy.

Leaders in stories never had to put up with this sort of thing.

Not all options will be good ones. Sometimes you have to make the best of a bad lot and ride the storm.

You'll use it, boy, and as long as you hate using it, you will use it more wisely than most men would.

Pain was as much a part of life as breathing.

A young man chases shadows and runs from moonlight, and in the end he stabs himself in the foot with his own spear.

but who can know the heart of a man? Not even he himself, I suspect. A man is the easiest animal to put on a leash, and the hardest to keep leashed. Even when he chooses it himself.

If we do violence to oppose evil, soon we would be no different from what we struggle against. It is with the strength of our belief that we fight the Shadow.

Sometimes she thought the Creator had only made men to cause trouble for women.

What I do, I do because there is no other way. He is hunting me again, and this time one of us has to die, I think. There is no need for those around me to die, also. Too many have died for me already. I do not want to die either, and will not, if I can manage it. There are lies in dreams, and death, but dreams hold truth, too.

No one is ever so far in the Shadow, that he can't once again walk in the light.

Life is uncertainty and struggle, choice and change; one who knew how her life was woven into the Pattern as well as she knew how a thread was laid into a carpet would have the life of an animal. If she did not go mad. Humankind is made for uncertainty, struggle, choice and change.

Quer seja o urso a vencer o lobo ou o lobo a vencer o urso, quem fica a perder é sempre o coelho.

Espero que cheguem a esta fogueira a qualquer momento. Mas a esperança é como um pedaço de corda quando você está se afogando: simplesmente não é o suficiente para tirar você da água sozinho .

I'd run. But maybe you can't run. Think of that, too.' His yellow eyes seemed to look inward, and he sounded tired. 'Sometimes you can't run.

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

Over and over and over. We make the same mistakes. Kingdoms do the same stupid things. Rulers fail their people time and time again. Men continue to hurt and hate and die and kill!