Quotes About Struggle

It was wearying, trying to adjust to all the paces life required.

He had just begun to realize how hard it was to get from day to day if one felt hopeless.

could put no weight on the wounded ankle at

She didn't know what to do with the severed leg. She had cut it off, but she didn't want to touch it or even look at it.

Basically Jake just dreamed his way through life and somehow got by with it.

no matter how well he worked. It was a little discouraging: the harder he tried to please the Captain, the less the Captain seemed to be pleased.

alone. "A military unit is a fine thing when it works," he said. "But it usually don't work. A solitary feat of arms is better, if the foe is worthy.

At times he felt that he had almost rather not be in love with her, for it brought him no peace. What was the use of it, if it was only going to be so painful?

The vast plain was beautiful, but it had reduced Pea Eye to a scarred wreck.

Not too many men, in his experience, had achieved a great thing, even one. Very few ever achieved more than one, he knew.

Larry McMurtry

Larry McMurtry

Once you got rich you'd have to spend all your time staying rich, and that's hard thankless work. I tried it a while and quit, myself. If I can keep ten dollars ahead of the bills I'll be doin' all right.

though his day-to-day responsibilities had constantly shrunk over the last ten years, life did not seem easier. It just seemed smaller and a good deal more dull.

I've just served five years in a great war —the only struggle that still interests me is the conflict with the sentence, sir—the English sentence.

Of course, children were endless work. They came when you didn't want them and had needs you didn't always want to meet. Worst of all they died no matter how much you loved them. The death of her own had frozen the hope inside her harder than the wintery ground. Her hopes had frozen hard and she vowed to keep it that way, and yet she hadn't. The hopes thawed.

She may know what I am, though, Lorena said. Yes, she'll know you're a human being. You don't have to duck your head to nobody. Half the women in this country probably started out like you did, workin' in saloons.

He had know several men who blew their heads off, and he has pondered it much. It seemed to him it was probably because they could not take enough happiness just from the sky and the moon to carry them over the low feelings that came to all men.

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.

He had done hard work all his life and was ready to stop, but he couldn't stop.

Jake would have done better to let them hang him," he said. "You know how he suffers when he has to work.

It's a fine world, though rich in hardships at times," Augustus said.

The thought cross his mind that he ought to have married her and not gone rambling. If he had, he wouldn't be in such a fix. But he felt little fear; just an overpowering fatigue. Life had slipped out of line. It was unfair, it was too bad, but he couldn't find the energy to fight it any longer.

He was embarked, at the time, on a book sighing—I insist, sighing, not signing, though he's pretty adept at that too.