Quotes About Struggle

If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?

Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.

There are forces in life working for you and against you. One must distinguish the beneficial forces from the malevolent ones and choose correctly between them.

Ah, why should life all labor be?

Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don't know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

Life is just a plain bloody mess, that's all. And people are fools.

Life is a warfare against the malice of others.

Life is one darn thing after another.

I had such a wonderful life before drugs and alcohol abuse. I've got that life back now and plan to keep it. Maybe I had to go through what I did to get to this point, to appreciate this life more.

We need the whole song, all the verses and the choruses to serve us as our own story unfolds because- trust me- life is hard, but God is good.

Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done.

The fight between life and death is to the finish, and death ultimately is the victor . . . I do not deplore the passing of these crude old days.

Life is hell, but at least there are prizes. Or so one thought.

That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it.

What are you doing here, honey? You're not even old enough to know how bad life gets." (...) "Obviously, Doctor," she said, "you've never been a thirteen-year-old girl.

I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.

With this project ["This Is Mike Stud"] in general, I tried to put my life on record. All of these things I'm going through right now, I used to dream about and didn't think could ever happen to me.

physical disability looms pretty large in one's life. But it doesn't devour one wholly. I'm not, for instance, Ms. MS, a walking, talking embodiment of a chronic incurable degenerative disease.

Frequently my life has been likened to a Greek tragedy, and the actress in me cannot deny that comparison.

Everywhere I looked life seemed to be full of problems and they were just going to go on and on. It was never going to get any better.

I've never hit anybody in my life. I never would, and the only way I could make a point was by hurting myself...It's something I've done since I was a teenager.

My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,- Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.