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Quotes About Struggle

What an awful thing life is, isn't it? It's like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Life sometimes gets in the way of writing.
~ Jean M. Auel
I'm just trying to do the opposite of left, as long as there's the opposite of death, ya know Yes, ya test and I just might bring the opposite of life, til' there's no one the opposite of right
~ Lupe Fiasco
In life, there are no shortcuts to joy. Anything that is worth pursuing requires us to suffer just a little bit.
~ Chris Burkard
Life has become unbearable ... Forgive me.
~ Dalida
A lot of people think the blues is depressing but that's not the blues I'm singing. When I'm singing blues, I singing life. People can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.
~ Etta James
What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.
~ Terence McKenna
Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist.
~ Rene Angelil
Life is a fight, but not everyone's a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.
~ Andrew Vachss
The more ignoble I find life, the more strongly I react by contradiction, in humour and in an outburst of liberty and expansion.
~ Joan Miro
If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.
~ Charles Bukowski
Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.
~ Emile M. Cioran
Struggle so that all may live this rich, overflowing life. And be sure that in this struggle you will find a joy greater than anything else can give.
~ Peter Kropotkin
The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond the arena of necessity and transmutes the struggle into love.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.
~ Susanna Kaysen
Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.
~ Vaclav Havel
Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
I really want people to understand that nobody is perfect and that things happen in life beyond our control.
~ Lil' Kim
Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.
~ Grantland Rice
It is a huge danger to pretend that awful things do not happen. But you need enough hope to keep going. I am trying to make hope. Flowers grow out of darkness.
~ Corita Kent
I was just living my life, and that's what I wanted to do.
~ Fred Korematsu
I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the streets.
~ Coolio
No one dies a virgin, Life screws us all
~ Daniel Tosh
If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise.
~ Theresa May