Quotes About Struggle

Ain't this been a hell of a time?

soon he would have to learn to call his depression happiness in order to endure it.

my fur is matted, my eyes refuse to refocus, my sthondat-begotten room is too small, my microwave heater heats all meat to the same temperature, and it is the wrong temperature, and I cannot get it fixed.

Louis told himself he only wanted to know if he could get pills. His addiction wasn't broken unless he had a choice to lapse.

Six times over several centuries, you attacked the worlds of men. Six times you were defeated, having lost approximately two-thirds of your male population in each war. Need I comment on the level of intelligence displayed? No?

I'd read a great many books, even Dharma books, but I was making this itch into one of the worst catastrophes in human history.

It isn't the day you finally push the boulder up the hill and it stays. (Then what would you do?)

For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.

When night comes on in a room lit by kerosene, any flicker of the flame can give the sense that darkness is about to triumph.

Wir existieren in einer Schizophrenen Form des sozialen Lebens. Fremde Mächte haben unser normales Leben okkupiert; und genau wie frembe Eroberer die Ureinwohner von Venedig in einen entlegenen Sumpf hinaustrieben, wo sie ihre Stadt auf Pfählen im Wasser bauen mußten, haben die Mächte die uns und unserer Kräfte ausbeuten, uns in eine unfruchtbare Einöde getrieben, die wir Privatleben nennen. (pp. 127-128)

O ser humano, esse estranho animal, balançando entre animal e esperança.

YOU HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE WORST TO GET TO THE BEST

When everything gets messy and brutal and complicated, the truth is the first thing to go, isn't it?

I hear the crazy. She sounds crazy. Maybe that's what happens when the bottom falls out, you lose the ability to modulate—to make your words make sense to the rest of the world.

My grandfather used to say that most people don't want to hear the thing that will make it work better," I said. "They want to hear what will make it easier.

In physics: It's called simultaneity. In music: rhythm. In your life: epic failure.

When the world goes quiet again, it will take everything I am not to allow the grief of his loss to level me.

My grandfather used to say that most people don't want to hear the thing that will make it work better," I said. "They want to hear what will make it easier." "And what did he say to do about that?" "Find other people. You know, for starters.

most people don't want to hear the thing that will make it work better," I said. "They want to hear what will make it easier.

I'd learned early on that people stay away if they think you're struggling. They don't want the stink to fall on them too.

It feels like a victory that we are moving closer to the truth. But when the truth is taking you somewhere you don't want to go, you also aren't sure. You aren't sure you want that win.

Sometimes your passion takes work and you shouldn't give up on it just because it isn't easy…

Finn and Bobby are fighting over the wrong thing. But at least they're fighting." "And how is that good?" "Because that's the only way to get somewhere better." He shrugged. "If you fight, you work it out. If you don't fight, you move into your own corners, and nothing gets decided there.

He lowers his window. "With which part, what?" "Can you help?" "The easy part," he says. "Getting through this." "What's the hard part?" "Owen's not who you think he is," he says. Then Grady Bradford is gone.