Quotes About Struggle

The greatest failure in life is to stop trying.

I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.

With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything.

I cannot solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art.

Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.

Life isn't easy, life isn't fair, when you get your chance, make sure you take it.

The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.

In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer.

The higher you go in a company, the less oxygen there is, so supporting intelligent life becomes difficult.

The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle.

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

Language is so different from life. How am I supposed to fit the one into the other? How can I bring them together?

Recovery is an acceptance that your life is in shambles and you have to change it.

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

A woman who is starved for her real soul-life may look 'cleaned up and combed' on the outside, but on the inside she is filled with dozens of pleading hands and empty mouths.

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.

No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.

If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all.

My life is full of broken halos.

The people accusing me of being productive don't know how hard it is for me to just bend my elbow sometimes.

We ride through life on the beast within us. Beat the animal, but you can't make it think.