Quotes About Struggle

Life is a series of failures punctuated by brief successes.

Life provides losses and heartbreak for all of us-but the greatest tragedy is to have the experience and miss the meaning.

In my life, I am often reminded that there is a destiny that rules over us, because no one whom I know about or whom I read about seems to be completely happy during a long time.

Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.

Tired faith all worn and thin, for all we could have done, and all that could have been.

I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.

Life is full of banana skins. You slip, you carry on.

Fighting is life... Are you a person who gives up or are you a person who's going to fight?

If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.

I was sentenced to life plus 30 years by an all-White jury. What I saw in prison was wall-to-wall Black flesh in chains. Women caged in cells. But we're the terrorists. It just doesn't make sense.

Perspective is everything when you are experiencing the challenges of life.

Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.

No victory is irreversible, no defeat is definitive. That is what makes life worth living.

The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don't know my story.

Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.

Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, 'Time to change course.'

I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.

Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.

The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.

We struggle with, agonize over and bluster heroically about the great questions of life when the answers to most of these lie hidden in our attitude toward the thousand minor details of each day.