Quotes About Struggle

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He became his own blues song, a Tom Waits loser, a Kerouac saint, a Springsteen hero under the lights of the American highway and the neon glow of the American strip. A fugitive, a sharecropper, a hobo, a cowboy who knows that he's running out of prairie but rides anyway because there's nothing left but to ride.

Uno empieza siendo idealista, moralmente fuerte, si se quiere, pero entonces la ropa de tu fuerza moral se va desgastando poco a poco hasta que ya no puedes más y haces cosas que nunca pensaste que harías, o no haces cosas que siempre pensaste que harías.

In the words of Oscar Wilde, 'I can resist everything but temptation.

Dope is supposed to be bad, but in a bad world it's good

Life is trying to kill us," she says. Life, Malone thinks, is trying to kill everyone. And it always succeeds. Sometimes before you die.

When the devil comes, he comes on angel's wings.

The good things in this world aren't done by saints. They're done by compromised people doing the best they can.

Satan can only tempt you with what you already have.

This train carries saints and sinners. This train carries losers and winners. This train carries whores and gamblers. This train carries lost souls…   Canción popular

Opiates are a response to pain. Physical pain, emotional pain, economic pain. He's looking at all three. The Heroin Trifecta.

We are all cripples, Keller thinks, limping together through this crippled world. It's what we owe to each other.

There is no water to put out the fire. Mi canto la esperanza. —Carlos Santana "Maria Maria

The lost, the lonely, the bicultural misfits with a foot in two worlds and a place in neither.

They say that love conquers all. They're wrong, Keller thinks. Hate conquers all. It even conquers hate.

You set someone straight, you have to go on the crooked road yourself. Sometimes you get lost.

Everyone says what they're supposed to, the usual clichés like "She's a fighter." Yeah, Danny thinks. There are two fighters in any fight, and one of them loses.

The first time he saw the child, she was in a cage. The last time he saw her, she was free.

The fan wheezes in its losing battle against the heat. But it's trying, Art thinks. It's fighting the good fight.

We can say that the roots of the heroin epidemic are in Mexican soil, but opiates are always a response to pain. What is the pain in the heart of American society that sends us searching for a drug to lessen it, to dampen it?

it. A junkie goes into the alley alone with the disease, it's the disease that walks out.

Libra mi cuello de la espada. Y mi vida de las garras del perro.

You start by being idealistic, morally strong if you will, but then the rock of your moral strength is eroded, bit by bit, until you're, well, exhausted, and you do things that you never thought you would. Or you do things that you always feared you would.

You're a hypocrite, he tells himself, using dirty dope money to get yourself clean, using other people's suffering to relieve your own, committing a mortal sin to save your soul.