Quotes About Struggle

People go through changes and life does the damnedest things to us all.

I looked down into my glass. It held club soda, but the way I was gazing into it you'd have thought it was filled with something stronger. I used to stare like that into glasses of whiskey, as if they contained coded answers. All they did was dissolve the questions, but there was a time when that was enough.

I haven't seen her in five years. Well, hell, I haven't had a cigarette in twelve, and I damn well wanted one for a minute there. Sometimes I don't think anybody ever gets over anything.

First the man takes a drink, as one hears it said, and then the drink takes a drink. And even if that's where it stops, before the third step of and then the drink takes the man

You don't sleep. You're thirty-four years old and lost the power to sleep when you were eighteen. Is

The world's a bastard. Life just happens to people.

Everybody has one thing that gets to him. Women or liquor or gambling or something. The trouble is when you've got more than one vice.

Or cut my own throat as I had cut the throat of the girl. Wolfe Tone, jailed after the Irish Rebellion of 1798, had sawed through his throat with a penknife. I wondered if I could do the same. Would the hand falter?

When I have a look at my own albums, it strikes me how thin they'd be but for war and rebellion.

Most people lie and let life play upon them like the tepid discharges of a douche-bag.

It is hard to fight with one's heart's desires; whatever it wishes to get, it purchases at the cost of the soul.

I am just a refugee from the long slow toothache of English life. It is terrible to love life so much you can hardly breathe!

He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner.

There is nothing stranger than to love somebody who is mad, or who is intermittently so. The weight, the strain, the anxiety is a heavy load to bear – if only because among these confusional states and hysterias loom dreadful probabilities like suicide or murder. It shakes one's hold also on one's own grasp of reality; one realises how precariously we manage

Youth is the age of despairs.

And I saw her as a sad thirtieth child of Valentine that fell, not as Lucifer rebelling against God, but because she too passionately wanted to be united with him! All things in excess become sin.

Cuesta mucho luchar contra el deseo del corazón; todo lo que quiere obtener, lo compra al precio del alma.

Some characters in the world are marked down for self-destruction, and to these no amount of rational argument can appeal.

An artist does not have a personal life as we do, he hides it, forcing us to go to his books if we wish to touch the true source of his feelings. Underneath all his preoccupations with sex, society, religion, etc. (all the staple abstractions which allow the forebrain to chatter) there is, quite simply, a man tortured beyond endurance by the lack of tenderness in the world.

In marriage they legitimized despair; every kiss is the conquest of a repulsion.

He felt that his mind had become a battle-ground for the forces of good and evil and that his task was to strain every nerve to recognize them, but it was not easy.

Its women shall be the voluptuaries not of pleasure but of pain, doomed to hunt for what they least dare to find.

I hunt everywhere for a life worth living. Perhaps if I could die or go mad it would provide a focus for all the feelings I have which find no proper outlet.

Sad times May follow your tracks, Bad times May bar you from Saks, Add times When Satan in slacks Breaks down your self control.