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Quotes About Struggle

But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.
~ Alice Walker
Sorrow spares no one, and scars respect no person.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, Infamous
Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.
~ Matthew Arnold
The sad fact is that the vast majority of drunks stay drunks. There's a small minority of us who reach that fork in the road where one side says 'live' and the other says 'drink'.
~ John Larroquette
Our hearts are breaking... We are lonely and deserted, sad and sick.
~ Alexander Murdoch Mackay
It's sad when you see someone do really well and then you just don't hear about them anymore.
~ Debbie Reynolds
Don't make me sad, don't make me cry. Sometimes love is not enough and the road gets tough, I don't know why.
~ Lana Del Rey
Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel.
~ George R. R. Martin
All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
~ Tab Hunter
The sad vicissitude of things.
~ Laurence Sterne
When You're young, you get sad, and you get high.
~ Ryan Adams
He'd come back, all open and helpless, and I suppose that's what won her around in the end. But it was so sad, because it was being himself that he found so difficult to cope with.
~ Melvin Burgess
It's strange," Moominmamma thought. "Strange that people can be sad, and even angry because life is too easy. But that's the way it is, I suppose. The only thing to do is to start life afresh.
~ Tove Jansson
Do console your poor friend, who is so troubled to see his paintings so miserable, so sad, next to the radiant nature he has before his eyes!
~ Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
Everybody's damaged by something.
~ Emma Donoghue, Room
We are like Humpty Dumpty and all these king's horses and all these king's men cannot put us back together again
~ Gale Forman
We burn so hard, but we shed so little light; it makes us crazy and sad.
~ Clive Barker
O suffering, sad humanity! O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, yet afraid to die, Patient, though sorely tried!
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
They're not willing to admit that I've also shed blood and tears and often paid dearly for my success. This makes me feel extremely sad.
~ Zhang Ziyi
Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.
~ Arthur Wellesley
Suicide - when I think of it, to me it means someone had a lot of problems and they couldn't fight through them anymore. That's not cowardly. It's sad and nothing but.
~ Chris Gethard
Drawing Lavi's smile eases me precisely because he has such a sad fate.
~ Katsura Hoshino
Steve Yarbrough's Safe from the Neighbors will take your breath away. Ambitious, funny, sad, smart, and beautifully crafted, it's everything a novel should be.
~ Richard Russo
Is it thy will that I should wax and wane, Barter my cloth of gold for hodden grey, And at thy pleasure weave that web of pain Whose brightest threads are each a wasted day?
~ Oscar Wilde